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@Mrs. Peanut: Yay for a super strong heartbeat!! I can't wait to hear how your reveal goes - I hope that the uncomfortable questions are kept to a minimum when you are celebrating as a bigger group and if people ask its more of a private thing.

@pastemoo: That is utterly amazing about the in-utero surgery option! wow!!!
I'll second MRSKRB with the Ovia app - I like the fact that there are 4 size comparisons per week (so I'm not limited to weird fruit/veggies I've never heard of :-p) Every so often there a is a junk update - but generally I find them really interesting. I also have the Mayo Clinic app and that is all factual - but only updates once per week.

@Contemplating: What a special moment that you had feeling flutters and DH being able to also feel so early! WOW! I am super excited for the day where I will get to feel these little ones!!!

@pastemoo: are you thinking of the What to Expect app? That brunette sounds familiar. I also have and mainly use the Ovia app, but sometimes check the What to Expect app too.

@Contemplating: hope your nausea gets better in the 2nd tri! And so exciting you get to find out whether your baby is a boy or girl in a few short weeks! Even more exciting that you can feel some flutters already. i love the story about your cat purring

@MRS.PEANUT: Glad you're appointment went good. Hope announcing over Christmas goes good. I totally understand the personal questions discomfort. My favorite was "Were y'all trying?" Uh that's not ok to ask.

@PASTEMOO: I was starting to wonder where you were! If I were you I would do 19 weeks, just to hopefully skip a lot of the "in between appointment worries" How exciting that your DH will know the gender but you won't. My husband is a horrible secret keeper so he'd totally slip up within days, I'm sure. Can't wait to see if your DH can keep it a secret! AFM, I'm doing ok. Nausea seems to be letting up. Still getting sick, but it's been down to just once a day so that's nice.
@CONTEMPLATING: I hope your nausea lets up soon. I'm not sure which is worse, nausea or actually throwing up. They both just put a damper on things.

I am officially in the 2nd trimester. Well going off my original due date. I can't wait to find out if they are changing my due date at my next appointment. Its getting confusing. I don't know if I'm 14w1d or 15w3d. I am excited to be out of the 1st trimester though, hoping this morning/all day sickness goes bye bye.
Well ladies only 4 more days till Christmas which is crazy because it feels like yesterday was Thanksgiving.. Hope everyone has a good day!

-14w1d//15w3d

Yay for everyone who has had good appointments and announcements in the past week! I have been reading updates, but man, it would take me too long to go back and find everyone to individually tag

had my check-up this morning, super quick and nothing to it, but I got to hear the heartbeat and I'm past 13 weeks, so I feel like a huge weight has been lifted!!

Does anyone have facebook announcement pics to share or ideas to share? not sure if I want to do one this time.. I'm feeling private this time around.

Oh, and I'm updating my due date to the 23rd. The baby measured 2-3 days smaller than that, and that's what I've been going by, but the doctor left my official date as the 23rd so I'm going to start using it to simplify - I've basically been tracking my weeks two ways lol.

-13w4d

@pastemoo: I use Sprout for app

Also- I do feel it still but it's only when I'm totally still and quiet, so I'm focusing-- it's little flutters still, almost like being very faintly tickled from inside-- and its only for a couple seconds. I can't wait for kicks and hiccups- I always loved that and it was the thing I missed most about being pregnant!

My morning sickness has gotten WORSE the last 2 weeks or so... I'm hoping it's a sign that my Progrsterone has evened out so I can get off the pills-- with my daughter I was done at 18 weeks so that'll be nice if I'm able to go off at my next apt!

Also I forget to check my dates before I post haha

15w 6d

Had my 16w appointment today, everything is good so far. As far as my low papp-a, my Dr said later in the pregnancy I.Will just need additional scans to make sure every thing is measuring ok. Scary, but nice that I will be monitored.

-15w5d

@starlitsky: It was how I was planning. I baked cupcakes and iced them half blue half pink. I put them in a tinfoil tray and covered with tinfoil so you couldn't see what they were and just placed them on the lunch table saying I made something from a new recipe. When my friends opened them at first they were skeptical (I tend to bake sneaky things sometimes - like chocolate chip cookies with oreos inside) - trying to figure out why they were special. Then one of my friends who was in the "know" said - 'that's weird - you iced them pink and blue, but those aren't holiday colors.....' and after making comments about the colors a couple times there was some gasping and hugging and hooraying. So then as others filtered in for lunch I would offer them a cupcake and see how long it took them to figure out so it was just a fun revolving door type feeling with lots of excitement. Oh and after people figure it out they'd either ask which color I was having and I just said something simple like "oh I iced them with both colors because we don't know what they're going to be...." then there was another round of shock and excitement as they picked up on the pronoun. Oh it was the most wonderful office reveal!! Thanks for asking!!
Good luck at your appointment on Wednesday - I was supposed to have one also on Wednesday but it got bumped to tomorrow with a different doctor in the practice.

@RKitty: I saw the fingerprint one too and thought that was funny. Also it prompted me to do research on twins - and my babies will have distinct fingerprints because apparently they aren't genetic. Fingerprints are formed from the "random" movements in the womb and their affect on the skin. Isn't that amazing! Blew my mind

Yesterday I was really beat (I pushed myself too far - was out shopping for about 3 or 4 hours for Christmas and ended with a 2 hour trip to the grocery store - which should have been about an hour but I think I was moving slow and kept forgetting things because I was tired.) While I did bring my water bottle with and packed snacks - it was just too much and I was so utterly exhausted when I got home. I cooked dinner and then couldn't stomach the chicken again (even thought I have successfully eaten chicken since around a month ago when I had my first issue with it). I just felt crummy all night. Today I properly hydrated and just felt like I had so much more positive energy - it was great.

The downside was receiving a bill for labwork from my last OB appointment because the doctor's office sent it to an out of network lab without telling me. So now I'm trying to figure out how to fight it - because I don't think its my fault or my responsibility to pay it. (Blargh)

A coworker brought me 5 or 6 of her maternity tops today and it was so exciting! I can't wait to start wearing them after the holidays.

-13w3d

@meadow: that sounds like it went over well and such a fun way to announce. I've just blurted it out to many people because I couldn't think of anything creative to say.

I have a photo of our stockings hanging in the stairway that I may post after Christmas. I feel less inclined to share this time but am also tired of trying to dress ambiguously.

I've been feeling some movement for the past few days! It's usually little flutters and some pushing. When I rock my toddler on my lap before bed I can sometimes feel the baby pushing back against him!

-15 weeks 6 days

@brownepiano: I can't believe that in two short weeks I could be feeling these little ones!!! Thanks for that hope!!!!

@MrsKRB: I agree! My family also likes to grow babies large so I'm sure that's part of it too!

@meadow: movements in the womb make the fingerprint design? That's cool! I learned something else new today.

In regards to your lab going to an out of network lab I had that happen once and I just had to call my insurance and explain. They then adjusted it an treated it as in network since the doctor who requested it was in network. So hopefully they can fix it for you!

@runnerd: Because if it's a girl it'll be the fourth girl in my maternal line to be born in July! And I think we're also all firstborns too, though I'm not positive about my grandma. And my mom and me are the only girls in the family the rest of our siblings are boys. (my grandma had a sister tho) So it just be kind of a cool happenstance.

For those of you that feel baby (or have felt baby in past pregnancies) - I know most describe it as fluttering, or bubbles, but I've been feeling light pinching feelings. Any idea if this could be baby? They're not painful, definitely not RLP (that HURTS, lol). My Dr asked me yesterday if I was feeling anything, but I wasn't really sure.

-15w6d

@RKitty: gotcha!!! That is a really trend to aim for!

@Mrs. Peanut: Morgan is a GREAT name if I must say so myself..... But I could be a little biased considering it's my name!

@meadow: Love how you announced to work. Too Cute!

@runnerd: I know once I posted on social media, I felt exposed too! Like now everyone knows. Eh.

@MrsKRB: I'm not sure I've felt any pinches, but you are further along than me. So maybe that's why. What I feel is like a almost a tickle on the inside of my stomach.

We are anxiously waiting for tomorrow. We are going to have an elective ultrasound at a place that says they can determine gender as early as 15 weeks with a 3d/4d ultrasound. I am so excited. However, I feel like if they say girl I won't be buying too many things until my 20 week anatomy scan at my doctor. Because you hear of so many stories. We are going to announce the gender to everyone at Christmas. No one will be expecting it because we've been telling everyone we were waiting till 17-20 weeks. So so excited.

-14w2d // 15w4d

@MMcAlli: fun, good luck!!! We are planning to do an elective ultrasound around 16 weeks for gender, so early-mid Jan!

@starlitsky: yuck sounds awful, I would also be so happy to already have an appt after that!

@MMcAlli: yayyy can't wait to hear the results of your elective ultrasound tomorrow!! Are you hoping for a or ?

@MrsKRB: I know, I was starting to panic! It's scary! I'm still a little nervous about my appt tomorrow.

@runnerd: Yay for elective ultrasound in Jan!! I'm excited for more mamas to start finding out or !

@MrsKRB: it feels like a knocking against my abdomen, if I put my hand over my lower belly I can feel it better

@runnerd: I technically have Instagram, but I don't use it!

@meadow: did he say why he prefers to do c-sections?

@Contemplating: I work in a hospital too, but it's actually slowed down for us (thankfully), however I'm a dietitian not a nurse!

@MMcAlli: yay!!! Lots of boys so far!

@runnerd: I don't use it as much now that I'm not babywearing the toddler.... but I'll probably start again soon! or you know, just create a personal one for non babywearing?

anyways, it's @adventuresinbabywearing

@MMcAlli: congrats on your little boy!