September 2013 babies!!

[Mum to three girls]

Fish, I hope your scan today is reassuring.

[Thorz300]

I woke up this morning not wanting to deal with this whole gender fiasco, I spent the last day and a half, obsessing over it and now I just want to move on from it. I can have my gender scan as early as 18 weeks but I think I might wait until 20 weeks because my mom will be here by then and she can come with me, otherwise I'll have to go by myself and I don't want to do that. So off to focus on the nursery then.....today I'm going to clear everything out of the room (except furniture of course, I can't do that) and paint the closet. Then the nursery will be all ready for the new carpet that is coming on MONDAY!!! I'm so excited for the new carpet wer are getting it in our entire upstairs! Oh on another note. My friend who is also due this month is finding out the sex of her baby today, I am babysitting her 2 boys while she finds out!! For her sake, I hope it is a girl but I know it might be hard for me initially if she gets her girl!

FISH I'm thinking of you today, please let us know how things go! You are in my thoughts and prayers!

[fish2012]

Hi all

Thanks for good wishes to the calcification is no longer evident! However there are two cysts on the babies brain ;-(. If my blood comes back negative for viral infection it may be Edwards syndrome if its positive it may be brain damage due to a virus ;-(. Follow up scan in three weeks to check cysts bloods should be back next week

Thank you for good wishes

[Southern Butterfly]

Hello ladies. A lot going on around here lately!

Fish- I am so sorry to hear about your recent scan. Hopefully this is something that will clear up on it's own and nothing serious. I know you must be worried sick and after everything you've already been through you don't deserve more worries! You and your baby girl are in my thoughts.

Thorz- Rollercoaster is the right word, wow! If it were me I don't think I would be able to hold out much longer for another ultrasound! I really really hope this second tech was right and this is indeed your little Macie Anne!!! In some ways your scan seems similar to mine at 15+1 but the more I look at yours I can see where it could be girly. The fact that Lovemy4 guesses girl is very promising, can't wait for you to get some answers!

I am getting worried ladies. Over the last few days I have been having TONS of contractions and they sometimes get into patterns of every 3-5 minutes. Most are just the tightening/pressure of regular BH cx but some are pretty uncomortable and radiate to my lower back. I saw my regular OB yesterday and told her but she was afraid to check me as it could further agrivate things so I'm waiting for my scan with the perinatal dr tomorrow to see if these contractions are actually doing anything or not. At my last appt at 16 weeks I was already starting to thin out some and with all this activity latey I'm afraid of what we'll see tomorrow. I really don't want to end up in the hospital especially this early

[fish2012]

Oh southern that's scary not having much luck this week are we come on someone cheer us up with some good news!

Southern praying for you and your lovely boy let us know what they say tomorrow xx

[Thorz300]

OH my!!!! Southern and FISH I am so very sorry for all these heartaches!! Take it as easy as possible and try to relax as best you can! You are right fish, we are having a rough week as a group and it is only Tuesday, we need some cheering up or good news from the scans that are still to come.

Ladies you are in my prayers!!

[fish2012]

baby's position hello like to stress myself out LOL!

my lill one's transverse at the moment worrying me a bit is that normal at this stage?! never had some many scans so never known before plus feel silly to ask drs as baby may never get to labour anyway ;-S

[Mum to three girls]

baby's position hello like to stress myself out LOL!

my lill one's transverse at the moment worrying me a bit is that normal at this stage?! never had some many scans so never known before plus feel silly to ask drs as baby may never get to labour anyway ;-S

Transverse completely normal at this stage! Still lots of time to move around. Will you need an amnio if your viral screen is normal? It must be such a stressful time for you.

Southern, how premature were your others?

My problems are comparatively mundane but my DH is feeling neglected! Not only have I no sex drive I get grouchy if he wakes me when I'm asleep and have been sleeping lots in the spare room. He hates it but I'm always like this when pregnant.

[Honeychild]

Fish, it's just been one worry after another for you recently. How stressful that they couldnt give you more concrete information. Does the fact that they're waiting three weeks indicate that it's not high risk? Still crossing everything for you. Are they giving you enough info about what's happening? As for the baby's position, my understanding is that they generally move around quite a bit up until the last month or so, and often later with subsequent babies as they have a bit more room, so I wouldn't worry about that if you can help it.

Longing, poor Noah, what an awful experience. Very glad to hear it is healing up ok, and hopefully he won't be too affected by it in the long run. For what it's worth though, I would have done just the same as you, a dog in a petting zoo with a small child in the family, and the owner reassuring you, of course you'd assume it was ok!!

Thorz, I'm trying very very hard not to encourage you to bump your scan up or call for a rescan at the first place! You need to do what works for you, and either way it will all work out in the long run. Fingers crossed though.

Southern, how worrysome. Thinking of you and sending 'stay put' vibes to bubs. Have you talked to your obs/midwife (sorry, I forget who is having what) about it? I've been having a lot of contractions the last week or so too, frequent strong ones at that, which is a bit surprising as I tend to run overdue if anything, so it can happen naturally even this early, but my situation is very different to yours, so my experience is probably completely irrelevant! I did read about some herbs that relax uterine contractions recently, I can try to find it again if you're interested? (I've got a naturopath friend that I regularly pump for info! ) but I appreciate that having had 3 premmie babies, you've probably got the routine down already! Thinking of you and sending my full term/overdue vibes. Xx

Mum23, I'd be sleeping in the spare bed too if we had one! At the moment I wake up if DH so much as breathes on me, let alone does anything as radical as rolling over! I'm trying to talk him into getting a king size, but no luck yet. I think it's either that or a spare bed though! I've spent far too much time sleeping on the couch the last 2 times!

[Salsa]

Fish and Southern, you are in my thoughts constantly. Please keep us informed as you know more info. Yes you're right, it certainly has been a stressful week for some. I have a little good news, but dont want to take away from those that are having a rough time. I had my anatomy scan today. We DID NOT find out even though I tried so hard to plead my case to DH about knowing now, he really wants to wait.... bummer

Anyway, baby is all good and healthy and right on track with growth. Such a nice relief, but when she was measuring the femur I was trying sooooooo hard to look between legs but she said legs were closed! grrrrr.....
Then later on in the scan when she was looking at kidneys, she said "oh I hope you dont know what you're looking at because I know the sex" I couldnt believe it!!!!!!! I was trying sooooooooooo hard to see but nothing was hitting me in the face!!! If she's zoomed in Im sure I could have seen but she didnt!! Poop!!! To think I was sooooooooooo close to just stumbling on it myself...

Anyway, here is the potty shot whilst measuring the femur bone (legs are closed) but I thought it was worth a try seeing if any of the experts on here could see anything... I'll put it in Ultrasound forum too....
Anyway, hoping the good news of a healthy baby cheers us up a bit, regardless of its gender
Wish she hadnt of said she knew.....

THis is the pic of the femur measurment
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This is the pic of the tibia and fibula - not a typical potty shot, but interested to see what people think of the area Ive arrowed....
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Ive put the arrows in myself