Due in Sept/Oct/Nov 2015

[Burakoam]

XX ill be honest i miss seeing you post more often ever since they opened up the december/jan/feb thread lol..i am hoping you get your little girl for dh's sake too. Are you getting any blood work done to reveal early? Bring that babys nub in this thread too if you have a scan between 11-13 weeks..

[XXforhubby]

Sorry Butakoam! I'll post more often, since I'm kinda in between DD groups with my DD.

I waffle back and forth with getting the MaterniT21 BW. I meet with the genetic counselor sometime next week to discuss my risk and to start the process. DH says if our risk is anything over 10% he wants to do it. I just can't see spending the money ($150 US dollars) basically just for gender. Plus, my next scan is at 13 weeks 5 days so we will get great nub/potty shots. The US techs here are great and give you any pics you want after they take their measurements.

See I'm not the one with a huge gender preference (I may lean slightly more boy), but I know DH does want a DD badly despite what he says. I'll find out the specific cost that the hospital will bill my insurance for the test and decide.




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[XXforhubby]

How is everyone feeling?

I'm doing better when I take Zantac twice a day. Ugh, I had unresponsive heartburn over the weekend. It was awful! The MS is fine, as long as I take my nightly dose of Zyrtec and B6 twice a day still. I had to stop taking Unisom because my blood pressure was inching higher than I and my doc would like. Since dropping it my BP has returned to normal.

I feel my baby flutter and roll every time I eat and when I go to bed and read DS2 his bedtime stories. It makes me feel everything is ok! I just turned 11 weeks today!! Yay!!


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[Rosie85]

Xx. So cute you are feeling the baby already! 11 weeks is early! Sorry about all the heartburn...how terrible! Hopefully your baby cooperates better than mine for your scan...i couldn't even get the baby into a profile shot. Ha. Crazy babes!!

I am still soo tired all the time. Housework is a biznitch...drains me soo fast and I barely do anything. It is beyond messy everywhere! I am feeling the baby tons more though and Dh was even able to feel from the outside! The little kicks are getting stronger!

Does anyone else still have a flabby belly being further along? When i stand it looks round and pregnant but sitting it looks as if it is all fat flab instead of being hard and pregnant like. Even standing it is still squishy to the touch. Strange for me...with my other 3 my tummy got very hard by now. This baby is carrying so very different.

[Burakoam]

Xx- i swear i was feeling baby at 10-11 weeks too before the anterior placenta started ruining all my fun..im glad some of the first trimester symptoms are at least manageable for you now.. Heres hoping that heartburn means baby has lots of hair ready to grow when its time :P

Rosie- im same as you actually belly wise right now. When i stand my pregnant belly really pops these days but lating on a couch or sitting reclined you could barely tell im pregnant just looks flabby

[kitkat18]

Xx. So cute you are feeling the baby already! 11 weeks is early! Sorry about all the heartburn...how terrible! Hopefully your baby cooperates better than mine for your scan...i couldn't even get the baby into a profile shot. Ha. Crazy babes!!

I am still soo tired all the time. Housework is a biznitch...drains me soo fast and I barely do anything. It is beyond messy everywhere! I am feeling the baby tons more though and Dh was even able to feel from the outside! The little kicks are getting stronger!

Does anyone else still have a flabby belly being further along? When i stand it looks round and pregnant but sitting it looks as if it is all fat flab instead of being hard and pregnant like. Even standing it is still squishy to the touch. Strange for me...with my other 3 my tummy got very hard by now. This baby is carrying so very different.

FX that's a girly sign Rosie! I carried way different with DD than DS's. I was way bigger and more out the front with the boys, with her I was much rounder and looked less obviously pregnant Xx

[Adia]

Xx. So cute you are feeling the baby already! 11 weeks is early! Sorry about all the heartburn...how terrible! Hopefully your baby cooperates better than mine for your scan...i couldn't even get the baby into a profile shot. Ha. Crazy babes!!

I am still soo tired all the time. Housework is a biznitch...drains me soo fast and I barely do anything. It is beyond messy everywhere! I am feeling the baby tons more though and Dh was even able to feel from the outside! The little kicks are getting stronger!

Does anyone else still have a flabby belly being further along? When i stand it looks round and pregnant but sitting it looks as if it is all fat flab instead of being hard and pregnant like. Even standing it is still squishy to the touch. Strange for me...with my other 3 my tummy got very hard by now. This baby is carrying so very different.

What a joy is it to read about your pregnancy Rosie after all your losses and struggles!

FWIW, I am astonished how different it is carrying a boy this time. I am so huge out in front and I still don't look prego from behind, well...I can't see me from behind but I don't think I look prego from behind! This boy is all out front and that is a night and day difference from when I carried my DDs.

I have a pair of pants that I wore constantly with DD3 up to the end, I can't stand wearing those pants this time as they squeeze differently and make me crazy.

Fingers crossed that you carrying differently is the sign of a girl!!

[Rosie85]

Geez ladies! Way to get my hopes up! Haha! Totally kidding. It is okay to have hope! This pregnancy is 100% different and dh really takes stock into it but I don't. I do like to hear stories like your ladies though about how your girl was so different than your boys and vis versa. I swear for some ladies it is true...all the wives tales and others not at all.

[bre_cooper11]

Hi ladies! (This is going to be a rambling mess, so bare with me).

I have been keeping up with your posts but have had hard time responding, time difference and soooo much going on! What a pink storm, indeed!!! I am so happy for the ladies who have gotten their DG and I see most of us blue hopefuls are being overthrown by the pink storm! DS isn’t DH’s biologically but he is very much his son and together we have DD1 & DD2. We swayed but I am not sure it was enough; DHs job requires him to sit in a car for 10-12 hrs and after Iraq hates taking cold showers. In his words, he believes he has cooked his boy makers. haha.
Some of you have seen my gender posts. I am due 23 Sept. We are currently stationed in South Korea, but about 20 miles from North Korea, so we are super secluded. I had my NT scan at 13+4 measuring 13+6 and Dr (2nd Dr, was ob specialist) guessed boy after looking for 10 mins or so. Then my husband was training and I wanted to surprise him with "it's a boy" after he came back, so, I went to a Korean clinic and they scanned me for about 2 mins and hardly looked in the gender area and she said she didn't really see a penis @ just shy of 15wks. Ok... then I went back 17wks and she scanned me for 1 min and 45 secs and once again hardly looked at gender but gave me a potty shot that wasn't really confirmation girl or boy and dismissed me. Oh, Korea.
These first 20 weeks have flown by, with working, my husband being gone most of the time, the kiddos. Before we knew it was time for our anatomy scan. My husband thought it was an elective gender ultrasound... that's what happens when you’re so busy and barley have the time to talk, lol. Our anatomy scan was on Wednesday and I was seriously just in denial about the whole thing but the date had arrived. We have to drive 2hrs to the appt in Seoul and I just couldn't bare someone who didn’t care telling me it was another Girl and making the 2hr ride back. So, before the appt I decided not to find out, but DH said he wanted to know. Which is fine because he has no preference. When we told the tech, it was like her head exploded, lol. She was not allowed to tell us the gender, anyways, and after got the measurements would grab the DR and he would tell us. It was also like his head exploded, he said “Um, that throws a wrench in things”. I walked away not really seeing either boy or girl but I am coming to terms with high percentage that it is a girl. Either way, it is the best choice, I know once baby is born I will over-the-moon in love. In fact, it has turned this overwhelming anxious possibly greatly disappointing experience into sort of a fun exciting surprise.

So, for now I am Team Green! And considering IVF-PGD in the likely-hood it's a Girl, just not sure if I can handle 5 kids, lol- financially or mentally.

Good luck to everyone!! It's nice to talk and vent. Thank you ladies.

[Claire33]

Bre, I was wondering how things were going with you. Now you are team green! Wow, I'll continue to cross fingers you get your boy though, even though you are preparing to hear girl at birth.

Who is next for their scan - XX? EmJ?