Due in Mar/April/May 2015

[QueenB3blue]

But your little one isn't as curled so maybe that's why the angles look different.

[PrimalMamma]

Maybe QueenB which is what I've been thinking this morning. Oh it's all horrid. I have 18 days to go.... Unless I have a sudden windfall which would mean I could pay for it to be done a week earlier. The free place won't do it til 20 weeks, the paying place will do it at 19 but charge $230 with no rebate. and I guess QueenB if that scenario is correct, then maybe that bit is the nub and the part I've circled in THIS photo is the protrusion underneath??? GAH I don't even know.image.jpg

[PrimalMamma]

Sorry not sure why the photo has uploaded twice!!

[Sweet mummy]

hi hon, yes Eva arrived safe and well 5 weeks ago today, thanks for asking. She was 6lb 7.5 at 38 weeks. I didn't do an announcement, just updated my due date group (which only has a few ladies!) should do an announcement. After the section it was a lot rougher recovery than the 3 normal deliveries with the boys, but the actual section wasn't as horrific as i imagined. We still have moments every day where we still can't believe we have a baby girl. She is perfect and so like my youngest son as a baby. We are all totally in love with her, my eldest loves to sit and hold her. It still feels like a dream xx

Congratulations Mrs Incredible!!! You and your family must be over the moon to welcome a sweet baby girl into it safely!! I'm so happy for you all... it may take a couple months (even years!?) to sink in! Enjoy every minute of her precious being and please do make an announcement - we all need to celebrate any baby being born!! She was a tiny one wasn't she? Bless her giving mummy a hard time but worth every minute I can imagine. Really happy for you xxx

[Sweet mummy]

Primal that sticking up bit definitely can't be nub! Must be leg that got cut off in the picture if baby was moving?

[Sweet mummy]

Whoops uploaded my pic to show a sticking up bit too that also looks like leg cut off!

[PrimalMamma]

Congratulations Mrs Incredible! I've been so busy obsessing about my own situation I completely missed yours! I spent a large chunk of yesterday pouring over confirmed girl photos and confirmed boy ones too & came to the only logical conclusion: my baby is a hermaphrodite. Lol. But seriously I found as many boy photos that looked the same as girl ones. One boy one in particular had a "nub" virtually identical to the sticking up thing that the sono said isn't a nub. So I think I just need to accept that the NT scan told me nothing & it is still 50/50. The funny thing is when I think it's a boy I'm nowhere near as distressed as when I start thinking it's a girl & then worry that maybe it isn't... I don't know why the whole thing is upsetting me so much anyway. I didn't really sway because it didn't seem all that important before I conceived. If I had known how desperately I really wanted a girl I would have tried harder.

[hotdogz&boyz]

Hi ladies. I am sorry I've been away for so long. I am so saddened to come back to so many ladies suffering loss and heartache. I can't imagine what you are going through with the loss of your baby girl twin or the loss of your father. So heartbreaking. I will pray for strength and healing for both of you. My thoughts are with your families.

At our house, we have not recieved any "bad" news. In fact, all the definitive news we have gotten has been good (previa is moving up at a very rapid and hopeful rate, the spinal column on baby looks perfect and no spina bifida concerns remain), but we still have some questions concerning baby's heart. According to the tech, baby has not been cooperative at either scan for the proper views she needs on a couple ventricles. She said it was rare to not get a decent view out of two scans, but doesn't necessarily mean baby has an abnormality with the areas. She just can't rule it out either. So, we wait longer. I have another scan booked in about two weeks (it was 4, but I've been gone for a couple of those weeks). Additionally, we are having some concerns about my blood pressure/protein in my urine. I had to do a 24-hour collection and monitor my blood pressure for the same duration. I'll get the results of that on Tuesday (I have an appt with the nkh risk doc at the practice). I've never had a hint of a blood pressure issue in my life (I normally run very low, actually) and I've never had problems in pregnancy with either protein in my urine or blood pressure. The midwife said it's pretty uncommon to not have pre-eclampsia for three pregnancies and then suddenly develop it in a fourth. But I guess "uncommon" is par for the course these days. I must admit, I have some symptoms of having high blood pressure and this pregnancy has taken a lot out of me that I didn't expect. My previous three were much easier.

BUT, the good news is that all traces of any potential gender desire or disappointment are gone. In fact, I'll be thrilled beyond measure to have a little boy. Or a girl. I feel like a lot changed for me during this whole experience and it has left me with a peace about whatever we get. But, I'm aware that my situation is rather different from many on here and I don't pretend to be in the same place, nor do I judge those who are struggling. I know what that's like and just feel lucky to not be there right now.

I hope to be around more. I hope everyone is feeling well as we head toward the halfway point or the third trimester! Soon enough we will have tons of beautiful baby pics filling these pages.

[PrimalMamma]

Hotdogz I'm thinking of you, so hard when there is anything odd hanging over a pregnancy but I'm glad that so far all the definites are positive. Pregnancy is such a peaceful place when all is well & if GD is not an issue. I long for my early pregnancy before the NT scan when I assumed my baby is a boy & I was relaxed & happy. I went shopping today, didn't buy anything for the baby but I looked at lots of gender neutral newborn things. They looked so tiny & & sweey & I can't believe my boys ever fitted into size 0000 but of course they both did (DS2 only for a week or so). Every time I settle my mind that the baby is a boy I am fine. It's when I think it MIGHT be a girl that I start to panic. Only because I am terrified of Gender Disappointment. This baby was never conceived with a "job", I had only mild GD prior to the NT scan & it was always about having another child & not "trying for a girl". I have a cousin who is the 3rd of 3 boys & everyone in the family is always reminded that he was "supposed to be a girl." He is 40 years old, with his own child now & his mother is STILL bitter that he was "supposed to be a girl." He has carried being that disappointment his whole life & it's awful. He was an overachiever in his youth & none of it was ever good enough. I'm terrified of being that parent & it's one of the reasons I haven't told any of my family about my GD & insisted that I don't mind what gender the baby is. I don't want my baby ever thinking he was meant to be something other than what he is. Sigh. 17 days til my scan. I can do this.

[kitkat18]

Hotdogz I have been thinking of you! Pleased the last scan went well, sorry that you still have a few unanswered questions, it will be such a relief to have that final scan checking the heart. Keep us posted on the results from Tuesday xx
Hoping those 17days fly by for you primal! It really is a sucky place to be in limbo.
Hope everyone else is well, can't believe some of us are nearing third trimester!! Xxx