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[narockshard]

I'm going to have a baby!!! I'm 11 weeks 3 days today with a due date so far of June 24th. We just told our families and good friends last night. It was so much fun telling them and everyone was SO excited! And I'm thrilled to FINALLY be able to talk about it! We wanted to keep things quiet until our first appointment with the doctor, which was yesterday morning. Everything looked fine and we heard the heartbeat on the Dopplar, it was 165. My OB only does one ultrasound around the 20 week mark, so we're looking at February for that. I personally really want to find out the sex, my husband is kind of leaning on not finding out, so we'll have to figure out what we're going to do!

Feel free to ask me anything! Like I said, I'm beyond excited to be able to talk about it. I'm usually a pretty big talker and not shy or private, so it basically made me want to explode waiting 11 weeks. My husband and I are so, so happy and excited. The timing couldn't be more perfect--we've been married 4 1/2 years (will be 5 by the time baby is here) so we just feel very ready.

Thanks for letting me share!

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SQUEEEEEEEEAAAAL! Congrats! Renata-Love that gif. You are the queen of gifs.

[hz80408]

Ahhhh!!!CONGRATS! So excited for you!

Will you find out the gender?

[narockshard]

Haha thanks @natariru!!! I'm looking forward to trying to make the bump work too. I'll be my biggest in the spring, so I'm planning on wearing lots of dresses. So far I just look like I've gained weight in my stomach area, so it's not super flattering lol. My normal clothes fit so far, although the boobs have gotten pretty big, thus causing some of my shirts to fit weird.

I'm feel really good actually. I never had morning sickness, and haven't thrown up. The paranoid part of me partly kept me thinking, is this even real right now? I should feel worse, right? I had a little bit of nausea from 7-9 weeks and only when I got hungry, but it would go away once I ate. And just this week I started feeling a bit queasy throughout the day, but nothing major. I've also been a little more tired than normal, especially after work, but again, nothing major. I'd say my biggest symptom has been the tender, swollen boobs! That's been consistent this whole time.

[mrsguz]

Yay!!!! Congratulations!!!

[gringachef]

Congratulations!!

[bluesecrets]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! So exciting!

[narockshard]

Dec 6, 2013 10:03:54 GMT -5 hz80408 said:

Ahhhh!!!CONGRATS! So excited for you!

Will you find out the gender?

I want to but my husband is kind of leaning towards not. I'm sure I could talk him into it if I tried but if I find he's feeling strongly about not then I might be convinced to go along I'm not super into anything overly boy or overly girl anyway, so I'd be buying fairly gender neutral stuff regardless. Except for clothes....clothes are really where I want to go a little crazy lol. Obviously.

[cransplash]

<) Congratulations!

[fashionx]

Congratulations!!!

[callmehales]

yayyyyyy, congrats!!!!!!

[xokell2]

Yay! Congratulations!

[DirtySouth]

CONGRATS!!!!

[carylee07]

OOOOOHHHH EMMMMMMMMMM GEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I literally "awwwwww'd" out loud!
I'm so excited! And I hope you have a girl so that she can meet @natariru 's S and then fall madly in love and we can all go to their wedding and they can have stylish offspring of their own.
Too soon?

Seriously though! I love all the S&B baby making here! So happy for you, girl - congrats to you and hubby!

[narockshard]

Dec 6, 2013 10:36:19 GMT -5 carylee07 said:

OOOOOHHHH EMMMMMMMMMM GEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I literally "awwwwww'd" out loud!
I'm so excited! And I hope you have a girl so that she can meet @natariru 's S and then fall madly in love and we can all go to their wedding and they can have stylish offspring of their own.
Too soon?

Seriously though! I love all the S&B baby making here! So happy for you, girl - congrats to you and hubby!

Awww, it gave me a big cheesy grin reading this I *think* Sebastian and Adelaide might already be betrothed, buuuut there seem to be enough S&B babies where there are definite potentials for for matches, and the weddings will make fantastic S&B get togethers

[kellsbelles]

Congratulations!!!!! You will be the most gorgeous pregnant lady seriously Happy and healthy 9 months!

My H and will start TTC again next month. Anything you did different the cycle you got pg or any tips? 

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CONGRATS! That is very exciting! Yay for more S&B babies!  (heart)

[bimbi284]

Yay!!!!!

[majick143]

Congratulations!!!!! I'm so excited for you!! What a wild ride you are in for, it's truly amazing, even through the yucky stuff like morning sickness. . More S&B babies!!!

[kris356]

Congratulations! So exciting!

[narockshard]

Dec 6, 2013 10:41:55 GMT -5 kellsbelles said:

Congratulations!!!!! You will be the most gorgeous pregnant lady seriously Happy and healthy 9 months!

My H and will start TTC again next month. Anything you did different the cycle you got pg or any tips? 

Aw, thanks so much!

Well to be honest it happened on our first "try". We used Natural Family Planning throughout our marriage (so charting, temping, learning my body signs, etc.), plus I was very regular and the signs were really predictable when my period would start, so that helped me know when we were "good to go" (when trying to avoid), and basically we went for it during a time that was not in my normal safe, avoid pregnancy, time frame, and bam, it happened. I fully didn't expect it to happen on the first try although at that point we were ready to start actively trying so it worked out fine.

So as far as a transition from BC to TTC, I'm not much help there as I didn't need to get my body to regulate or anything. But I would say don't worry too much about it in the beginning, just have fun with it. And just for your own knowledge, I really recommend learning your natural cycles, and even if you don't chart or temp, it's great to still know how your body works. AND don't read too much into what you see on the Internet. I think I had a ton of misconceptions about how things would work based on all the stuff I read, and irl I think things go much smoother and easier than you might think

ETA: Good luck to you too btw!

[carylee07]

hahaha @natariru Fella has options!
narockshard I am always amazed when people say it happened on their first try. H and I are not actively trying but we arent preventing either, and, well, nothing in the 4 years we've been married. Everyone is different, I know - but it just blows my mind! Just extra meant to be for you guys!

[bina]

So very happy for you! Babies are the best things since slice bread

[narockshard]

Dec 6, 2013 11:07:58 GMT -5 carylee07 said:

hahaha @natariru Fella has options!
narockshard I am always amazed when people say it happened on their first try. H and I are not actively trying but we arent preventing either, and, well, nothing in the 4 years we've been married. Everyone is different, I know - but it just blows my mind! Just extra meant to be for you guys!

Aw carylee07, I hope things work out soon for you (if that's what you want!). I was in the first try working blowing my mind camp too, until it happened to us and then when I was texting a bunch of my friends many of them were saying they got pregnant on the first try too, so I was like huh, maybe it's more common than I thought? I guess my point is just that you have as much reason to be hopeful as I guess there are reasons to worry, ya know?

[busybodyk]

Congratulations!!! I'm so happy for you! I wish you a happy and healthy pregnancy!!!!

What is your actual due date?

[narockshard]

busybodyk-Originally they told me June 21 just based on my last period, but I had an ultrasound on what turned out to be the day I was 6 weeks exactly (due to some light spotting which freaked me out but turned out to be fine...anywhoo) which put the due date to June 24. So I'm guessing that's the right one?

[narockshard]

Dec 6, 2013 11:31:06 GMT -5 @aliciaroset said:

Aww, yay! I did a little clap. how exciting! Congratulations!
The only thing I'll say about finding out the sex is that it can be a mixed blessing. We knew we were having a girl and I got almost nothing practical at our shower, just a ton of really cute pink clothes.

Thank you!

Wow, I never thought of that! I realize people love buying cutesy baby clothes, but I think I'm going to be kind of picky in how I dress my kid and I would rather handle that part and get practical stuff as gifts. We plan on more kids down the road too, so I'd like things to work for either sex. My only thing is that I'm kind of a control freak and would like to be mentally prepared and be able to plan the nursery and stuff...but I suppose having kids in itself does not lend well to control freaks ha.

[joanis018]

Omg congrats!!!!!!!!!!!! I also had no morning sickness and all around felt fine (except being tired around weeks 6-8) and then I had an ultra sound and saw a little thing that kind of resembled a tadpole and started sobbing because it was the first time it sunk in that I was actually pregnant (good tears!). I went back to work into my friends office who was the only person who Knew I was pregnant and cried for like 20 more minutes haha. 

Also, we made it clear that we didn't have space for cutesy things and people were really good about sticking to our registry. 

Im so excited for your bump!! Yayyyyyy

[narockshard]

Thanks so much joanis018! It's a relief to hear other stories of feeling fine/no morning sickness. Up until hearing the heartbeat yesterday the lack of symptoms were honestly a huge source of stress for me, rather than just being super happy that I got so lucky.

And that's so sweet about your ultrasound (heart). I'm not sure I've had the feeling of it actually sinking in yet since I don't feel all that different. In fact, telling everyone has made it even more surreal, like I'm just waiting to wake up from a dream!

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Congratulations