I had wanted to work on moving around furniture for the nursery, but DH's back is hurting. We registered instead. Oh man so much stuff! I need to have some mom friends look it over for advice.
I'm 30 weeks this week. Each week I think, holy crap how am I this far along?! But now that we are down to the last 10 weeks or less, I'm really thinking it. I got my BOB stroller this week and really can't wait to use come next spring!
We went to birthing class yesterday. I knew a lot of the stuff they covered, but it was interesting still. And my H learned how to swaddle a baby doll. LOL he was so proud of himself. Part of the class was touring the Labor/Delivery wing at the hospital here. Even though we won't be delivering here, it made me excited to tour our hospital in Germany to see where we actually will be delivering.
boiler717 if you want me to look it over let me know.
Not much over here. I can't wait for 3 weeks for our next ultra sound at 18 weeks. It is happening at the mfm. Is this typical? I think it is our anatomy scan. We have to go for monthly monitoring anyway so I guess we get our anatomy scan with the good machines. Last time we got lots of 3d time. Hopefully dw's blood pressure behaves between now and then.
boiler717 if you want me to look it over let me know.
Not much over here. I can't wait for 3 weeks for our next ultra sound at 18 weeks. It is happening at the mfm. Is this typical? I think it is our anatomy scan. We have to go for monthly monitoring anyway so I guess we get our anatomy scan with the good machines. Last time we got lots of 3d time. Hopefully dw's blood pressure behaves between now and then.
My a/s was at MFM. Normally it would have been at the OB but mine is a friend and she said it would be stressful for her to review so she sent me to MFM just in case. We had some findings so I'm glad we went (nothing major, just more follow up). A lot of places do fetal echo standard for IVF patients, so I don't think a referral to MFM for the a/s is anything out of ordinary.
We have the NT scan today! I'm excited but nervous something will not be good. I posted this on MMM too, but I look at DD and see how healthy she is and wonder if we will get that lucky twice. The odds are in our favor (lol) for everything to be fine but I am such a ball of anxiety.
boiler717 I'm happy to help critique your registry too. I love looking at registries! I'm definitely doing another one for this baby, it's crazy how much new stuff there is, plus some stuff we need to replace.
Good luck bcarp30! And yay for kicking babies @cookiemonster03! How neat that you can differentiate between the two!
Good morning from the beach! We salvaged our vacation and booked several days on the SC coast before we head to Charleston for a night. Sure is nice to get away, but we're both missing our bed. I was awake for the majority of the 3-6 am hours this morning. Oof.
I had an appointment last Friday which went well. Listened to the heartbeat and asked lots of questions. The midwife encouraged me to start thinking about and preparing for the birth. I feel like I'm just getting used to the idea of being pregnant, but baby is nearly half baked. I know darn near everything there is about getting pregnant, but being pregnant and having a baby is a big old mystery to me. Not to mention caring for a baby. A/s is in three weeks at 21 weeks!
So I swear I felt two little jabs from baby A Saturday evening. Nothing since, and that was the first time. I'll be 18w tomorrow. Normal, right? I wax and wane on anxiety
18 weeks is when I started trying to figure out if I was feeling baby or having gas bubbles. I wasn't for sure it was baby until 19 weeks, so I say normal!
So I swear I felt two little jabs from baby A Saturday evening. Nothing since, and that was the first time. I'll be 18w tomorrow. Normal, right? I wax and wane on anxiety
So I swear I felt two little jabs from baby A Saturday evening. Nothing since, and that was the first time. I'll be 18w tomorrow. Normal, right? I wax and wane on anxiety
18 weeks is when I started trying to figure out if I was feeling baby or having gas bubbles. I wasn't for sure it was baby until 19 weeks, so I say normal!
This is encouraging. I felt some jabs last week but it must have been a random fluke, because nothing since then has been clear enough to differentiate from gas bubbles/wishful thinking. I'm not anxious about it yet, but I'm sure I could get there in a few days.
@cookiemonster03 (and other people who are or have been pregnant with twins), how do you know which baby you're feeling? Are they pretty well set into different sides of the uterus? Based on the few minutes I've seen her in ultrasounds, it seems like she moves around a lot in there, so I have no idea where she is.
I first felt movement around 16 weeks, it was sporadic for a week or two and then I didn't feel min at all for about a week. I think it was from nerves before a/s. As soon as the a/s was over, I started feeling movement several times a day.
18 weeks is when I started trying to figure out if I was feeling baby or having gas bubbles. I wasn't for sure it was baby until 19 weeks, so I say normal!
This is encouraging. I felt some jabs last week but it must have been a random fluke, because nothing since then has been clear enough to differentiate from gas bubbles/wishful thinking. I'm not anxious about it yet, but I'm sure I could get there in a few days.
I'm trying to remember, because that point in the pregnancy seem so far away right now. Ha. But while I started feeling him at 18 weeks, was sure it was him at 19 weeks, I really had to focus on feeling him until like 21 weeks? Like I'd have to be laying down and really trying to pay attention, because his movements were so tiny then. They were easy to miss if I was moving around or not paying attention.
I think I started obsessing over his movements between 20-25 weeks. Because at that point I was feeling him consistently enough(and he is a super active baby!), so when he would have a quieter day I would worry. But then I would have of remind myself that was normal because you really don't start kick counting until 28 weeks anyways. But its hard to not obsess over it
Enjoy the tiny movements, they are so fun! Baby boy is running out space and occasionally they feel less fun now. I still love feeling him move, but I can tell he's running out of space. I feel less kicks and more stretching/pushing. I'm able to actually feel when he shoves his butt or foot off to one side against my stomach. Its the weirdest feeling! Like I can feel his limb!
I posted last Tuesday that the hb was slow, baby was measuring behind, and the yolk sack was enlarged. I cancelled my trip to Oregon because I didn't want to start m/c, and booked a trip to the beach instead. Thursday, before leaving for the beach, I was feeling very crampy so I went in for an u/s. I had to know before leaving if I was going to start bleeding soon. Unfortunately they didn't see a hb. I'm glad I went away over the weekend - it took my mind off things.
This morning I had an appointment to see if anything was starting and if not, to schedule a D&E. Well, they saw a heartbeat. The baby grew from 2 mm to 8 mm and the hb is strong at 130. I am in complete shock as are they - they have never seen this before and don't know how to explain it. But for now I am being cautiously optimistic and will start taking my vitamins and progesterone again! I'm going to try to forget that I drank over the weekend and just keep praying, praying, praying.
maryellen, I've heard of weird occurrences like that happening before. What a surprise! When will you get another check? Crossing everything and sending up a prayer for your little one to stay strong and sticky!
G22 I go back on Friday for another u/s. @cookiemonster03 I didn't even think about that - they were different machines. On Thursday it was the RE so I was very confident that it was accurate but today was the PA. Hmm.
8 mm is pretty significant! Could you see it too? I can't even imagine how you feel.
I will add that at my last visit at the RE the doc on monitoring got a HB of something like 130 for one of the babies - the other was in the 170s; this was 8 weeks and change, so it was lower than the week prior and low for the gestation (though he denied that) and I totally freaked out. I ended up going to my OB a few days later and all was fine. I am pretty sure he had a bad angle or something. I'd had him once before and his measurements seemed off then too but I blew it off since who am I to read ultrasounds? I'm crossing my fingers for you!
I actually saw the hb first! They looked at the embryo and confirmed no hb. I saw that too. But as she was measuring other things I kept my eyes on the embryo and saw something. I said "what is that up there?" and then I immediately told myself I was crazy but they looked and couldn't believe it. They kept zooming in and measuring it and listening to it. I feel like this is a dream right now.
I guess this early it is so hard to really get things right?? Most women don't even have their first u/s yet at this point. It's like we have way too much information!
I don't have much this week. I'm can't wait to be done with first tri sickness and really hope it's not something that continues for me. I have my last appointment with my RE on Friday. I have to go to the base hospital tomorrow and self refer to OB. There's a chance that they'll make me take a pregnancy test before letting me make an appointment. I'm going to do my best to convince them that I don't need to do that and to let me just make my next appointment. I want to be able to tell my RE who I'm seeing and when my appointment is so they can make sure my records get transferred.
No major updates for me this week. I had NT blood work this morning since I am now 4 weeks out "from fetal demise" of Baby A. I'm hoping it comes back clear since our neck fold measured well. I swear I think I've been feeling taps here and there but I know it's way too early. Second time moms, how early were you able to feel #2?
No major updates for me this week. I had NT blood work this morning since I am now 4 weeks out "from fetal demise" of Baby A. I'm hoping it comes back clear since our neck fold measured well. I swear I think I've been feeling taps here and there but I know it's way too early. Second time moms, how early were you able to feel #2?
Great NT scan with a fun tech! She grabbed some excellent shots and did a between the legs scan that showed a definite something but she said it's too early to tell. NT fold measured 1.5 so well under 3 and nasal bone looked good. Heart looked good too, so hopefully bloodwork shows the same thing!
Bummer- she said it looks like I will have an anterior placenta which means movement would be totally different than with DD who had a posterior placenta where I felt every little thing.
I didn't comment earlier since I didn't want to give false hope and obviously your Drs would know more. However, my 6w 3d ultrasound had a heart beat right around 105 and I was measuring 3-4 days behind. Doctor told me the HB was ok-ish (I had a follow up at 7 weeks) and within a week on the gestational age is within the margin of error on the machines. So I hope you continue to get good news.