Anyone else due??

[applesoup]

Here I was at...almost 22 weeks. I know I look "cute" pregnant still, I just know it all goes down hill from here... my legs, arms & FACE get huge! The worst is AFTER I give birth. Even though I give birth drug free, I allow them to give me "fluids" & petocin after I deliver. I don't know what it is about that--but it makes me BLOW UP! Just in time for pictures & visitors. I hate it.


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Here's me 9 months preggo with DS3...I gain 52lbs & he was 9lb 6 oz. You can definitely tell. (I should also add that I'm 5'9".) UGH:

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[applesoup]

Where are your guys' bellies?

[dannikins]

im only 5' 3", so ganing 70 pounds, was a big deal for me......he was 8 pound 9 ounces, i just ballooned up with fluid.

i will be taking another belly pic monday, i will be 28 weeks.

[Indira]

Here´s mine! I´m 20 weeks and 4 days. I feel a lot bigger than I look in the picture now that I look at it. I gained 10 kilo´s already-that is 22 pounds. I just eat whatever I want, I did the same with the boys and gained a lot in the beginning with them too but now it´s worse because I was coming of the LE diet. And I was thinner to begin with now, I think I might end up at the same weight in the end or a little over.

I´m so glad to be back home! we went away for a week on a ski holiday with my parents in law, need I say more? So happy to be able to chat again with my gender dreaming friends

[Indira]

Indira- I know what you mean about worrying about your baby's health, I have a child in my class with DS and I think the same thing but I'm sure we are both fine. It is natural to be worried.
I'm impressed you are staying team green, what was your reasoning/ thinking? I'm wondering whether I shouldn't have found out, too late now!
My next scan is 20th march at 20 weeks.

When I had this strong feeling the baby has Down syndrom I read a couple of blogs of moms of a child with Down syndrom. At first this was weird as almost all of them had this feeling during pregnancy as well. Then reading how they are handling with their child, how much they love them and seeing these cute pictures, I calmed down and felt and still feel that if it happens, I´ll be okay with it, I can do it. And now that I feel in peace with it, this feeling my baby has Down syndrom has gone away. I´m back to obsessing over gender now lol.

I´m not finding out because I think I will handle hearing it´s a boy better at birth. I´ve been going back and forth about it a lot of times, because it´s so tempting to find out when it is a girl. But I have to keep in touch with reality, it is probably a boy and I think I will handle that better when the fact it´s a boy is one aspect of many others: whether he looks like DS1 or DS2, seeing the little fingers, the birth experience, seeing DS1 and DS2 holding their little brother. If I would find out now, I would have a lot of weeks to focus only on him not being a girl, just this one aspect and I think it would depress me more than it will at birth.
Having said that I´m absolutely dying here and peeing in my paints because I have my 20 weeks scan tomorrow morning, I hope I will resist. And that the baby is healthy. AArrggh I´m loosing it, I think I will understand just looking at the skullshape that it´s a boy. I have this mental picture of the 17 weeks scan of his face, and in my memory it wasn´t pointy at all. I hope I get to have a look at my baby and enjoy that, forgetting about this whole gender thing.

[indigoviolet]

Oh gosh, good luck tomorrow with your scan Indira, looking forward to hearing how it goes.
Praying you see a healthy and happy baby

[Indira]

thanks indigo!
All went well, I´m so relieved right now, the baby looks healthy!
He/she just has a white spot on the heart, it can be a soft sign for Down syndrom but it can also be an innocent thing and it was the only soft sign they saw. So I´m not worried about it anymore.
I saw the baby in 4D and got a lot of 4D pictures of the face, I´m very happy about how things went.
Still on team green, but I think the head shape def. looks boyish.

[indigoviolet]

Oh that is great to hear baby healthy. Try not to worry about the white spot, although that is easier said than done. Glad you got lots of lovely pics. Can't believe you are still team green, you are strong!! So glad you are happy about how it went and had a good experience. It is so reasurring to see healthy, moving baby, a miracle really.
My scan is next tues (20th) and I know I will just have to confirm gender again.

[dannikins]

great news indira.
and well done staying team green!!!
i totally hear everything you said about it being easier to deal with if you find out at the birth, thats why im team green.
disaspointment+pregnancy hormones are a bad mix, i found that out last time.

but once its born, it just dosent matter anymore

i have my 28 week check up tomorrow.
less than 12 weeks to go, and whats even scarier is that if i go early, like with my first 3, it could be here in as soon as 8 weeks!!!!!
and i have done NOTHING to get ready.....

[dannikins]

here is my 28 week belly pic.