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@NorCalWayfarer: Congrats! So exciting your tech was willing to make a guess for you!

I also have an update on the sex of baby #3.....we're having another GIRL

I'm excited but pretty surprised....can't believe we will be a three of a kind family. DD1 (almost 4 years) is positively thrilled; I'm not sure DD2 fully gets it (we just told them about an hour before our gender reveal elective ultrasound that they were going to be big sisters). Obviously what matters is healthy baby, healthy mama. Poor DH is taking a lot of jabs from his friends who all have at least one boy, but I know he does adore how much his daddy's girls love him!

@NorCalWayfarer: hooray for another boy! (They are great!)
@PinkElephant: a trio of sisters!! Hooray!

Had a doctors appointment today and mister Oliver gave me a scare with his heartbeat. He kept moving around and likely grabbing his cord causing irregular rhythms but she said he sounded great and we would double check for heart issues on Friday at my ultrasound. All things are good otherwise he has been moving more and more these days.

@NorCalWayfarer: congrats on a great ultrasound! Would you like me to put you down for a boy or should we wait for confirmation?!
@PinkElephant: wowee another girl!!!! So awesome!!
@LAZB: I had my 18 week appointment today and he had trouble finding the heartbeat too. I persuaded him to keep trying and he finally found it. These babes love to keep us on our toes!!
@MrsRcCar: I can't remember you saying you picked Oliver for your name! Or maybe I'm being forgetful. I love that name so so much. I have an Olivia (Livy) so it would be a little too matchy-matchy to name a boy that for us, but I think it's a great name! Sorry for the irregular rhythms but I'm sure all is great. Is it your anatomy scan this week?

I've been a little AWOL here. I've just had an awful feeling in my stomach after winniebee announced her news. It has hit really close to home because we terminated a much wanted pregnancy too. My heart is just breaking for her and for our loss all over again. I just want healthy babies for all of us.

Just about 18 weeks here for me. Feeling good health-wise. Just slight back and butt pain but it comes and goes. I'm just happy my morning sickness has disappeared. I can finally enjoy a non-alcoholic beer on the porch. I'm feeling more and more movement every day which is so nice. Hope you all are feeling well!

I hope I got all the updates right on our list, please let me know if I have missed anything.

@delight: thanks! You can put me down for boy, I'm pretty confident we'll have a boy. I'd actually be quite shocked if we have a girl Thanks for doing the updates!

@delight: thanks! I seriously cannot believe it.

Agree with you all that winniebee's sad news has been a heartbreaking reminder of how fragile pregnancy is. A very dear friend (who is physically far away) is due a few days after me and just told me she'd had to go for a bunch of high level scans for some sort of abnormality, and the scan technician was a bit loose lipped and very negative. She's awaiting an appointment with her OB to find out the prognosis and options before sharing more details with me, so I have no idea what severity of issue we are talking about....but after hearing a few stories here, I'm so worried for her. I wish no one had to go through such devastating circumstances.

I'm only 14 weeks but I felt movement last night! It felt exactly like a muscle twitch in my lower abdomen, which I would have thought was what I was feeling, but luckily I have my doppler so I whipped it out and put it on there and I heard the movement corresponding with the twitches. So cool! I had just eaten cherry pie, so it's safe to assume that the baby likes pie.

Sad news about Winniebee. It rips my heart in half to hear that. So anxiety inducing to think how fragile this experience is.

I'm pleased to hear that things are going well so far for fellow November mamas. Thinking of you all!

@Plainpistachio: so awesome you're feeling movement! I felt it early too then it kinda disappeared for awhile. Now I can feel baby every day but only once or twice. I can't wait until I can feel it regularly.
@dragonsword: oh man I'm sorry you're still feeling sick. What a bummer! I hadn't heard of Le Tote but looked it up and it is super cool! Do they have maternity clothes?

@dragonsword is Le tote rental? That sounds cool...

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@caterw: When is your scan? It must be coming up soon! Ours is Friday!

@Plainpistachio: congrats on your baby boy! Yes, Le Tote is rental, you can keep the clothes as long as you want or as short as you want. You can even buy the clothes if you want to but I don't think I would buy use clothing unless i really really loved it. I'm trying to get a box weekly to get more bang out of my buck!
@delight: They do have maternity clothes and that's the whole reason why i'm doing it!

@Plainpistachio: Congratulations on your boy! It's driving me crazy that I might be able to find out with an elective ultrasound. I'll probably scedule my anatomy scan for the same day as my appointment that month, which will be 21 weeks. That extra week is going to be so hard!
@delight: Could you change my date to the 27th? Thank you!

@kes18: I'm anxious too and realize with all my NIPT testing and stuff I never did the AFP which is the blood test that shows risks for SB. My scan is this week so it is too late anyways. I'm just crossing my fingers everything is good.

Good luck to all having their anatomy scans in the next week!

@dragonsword: that's so cool. I don't think we have anything like that in Canada!

@delight: You're right.... We should wait. I can get my mom to do the surprise right before the party (I am going to make a pull string piñata this week and she can fill it with confetti). It will be fun to get surprised on camera with DH and DD and my mom will get a huge kick out of getting to know first.

@caterw: that's what I was thinking for you. The expressions on your face when you find out will be priceless and such an awesome moment to capture. In less than two weeks you'll know! I still have 22 more to go
@NorCalWayfarer: oh I'm sorry you didn't get your first trimester blood screening too! What a bummer! I think for me, the genetic counsellor just said the blood tests didn't matter because my NIPT was good. However, in light of all that has happened here it starts to sink in that the NIPT only screens for a small proportion of things. At this point we all just have to hope for the best right?! Is your date right on our list or is it supposed to be a week ahead? I can't remember if I have already changed it!

@delight: I've been MIA for the same reason as well. Just heartbroken for winniebee.

I'm 15 weeks and still feeling sick and throwing up randomly but it's much better than a few weeks ago. Also still so exhausted all the time. My OB also increased my dose of thyroid meds bc my latest labs came back slightly high.

I've been having spotting on and off still so I am just really limiting my activity. Friday I woke up at 4am and my pjs were just completely soaked through and I passed a huge clot when got up to use the bathroom. My OB was out in surgery all day but the nurse told me to go to the ER for an ultrasound. Rather than sit all day at the ER I went back to my IVF doc's office. Fortunately baby was doing great and there was no sign of active bleeding. I went to see my OB today and he did an ultrasound himself and we could see the cervix looked good, there was no sign of hemorrhage or sources of bleeding, all parts of the uterus looked intact and no signs of separation anywhere and so far the placenta looks ok. He said my placenta is kind of sitting close to the cervix which may either mean it is moving away from previa bc as the uterus grows the placenta has more space to move away to a better position or it can mean it slightly previa now but we really can't know until closer to 20 weeks. But so far it looks ok and it's just unexplained bleeding.

Hope everyone else is doing well! I'll have to go back and catch up from being absent the last few weeks. Can't wait to read all the gender announcements!

Are you guys buying baby clothes yet? I just bought some baby boy sleepers and summer outfits bc Carters was having a big sale and I had a 25% off coupon. It's so different buying clothes for a boy this time!

@sandy: Sorry to hear about the bleeding, so glad everything is okay. I am still having spotting as well, and I also am having nightmares now about bleeding. I know I need to relax about it but it's tough!

Haven't bought any clothes or anything at all to do with the baby... I'm not sure when I'll start looking. I feel a bit superstitious so I don't know if I'll want to actually buy anything ahead of time. Might just register for a bunch of stuff so it's ready to go when we want it all.

@sandy: I'm so glad everything is ok, but that sounds so scary!
I've bought soooo much stuff! Most off of local buy/sell/trade groups on Facebook. The other day I bought like 10 smocked outfits and 10 polo rompers from a girl in one group. It was so cute!

@sandy: I guess buying all the little rompers will ease the sting of getting rid of DD's sweet dresses if baby is a boy. I do plan to turn a couple of my favorite girl outfits into teeny tiny bow ties (well... My super crafty mom will do this for me).

@delight: You can keep the 11/27 date as is, they said they won't change it which is fine with me
@MrsRcCar: I haven't seen a doctor since the u/s (and it was with a tech and I never heard from a doc about the results) so I'm not sure about QUAD testing. The tech said they'd likely still do the 2nd trimester blood screening but they just can't compare it to the u/s, so I'll still get some information. I'm kind of annoyed at my health care provider at this point but everything seems normal with baby so I'm just chugging along...