Hellobee Boards

@AprilFool: I'm so excited for you!!! Yay for pink!!

Thanks everyone! We are super excited although it was weird when she told us... I was just happy to be right! haha

I was really glad to see she was doing well since I haven't felt her move yet which sent me into a panic last week and was part of the reason I booked the scan.

@sslm: hearing the heartbeat is awesome!

@Mrs. Blue: I am actually going to do some celebratory shopping today now that I know. Did you get your cribs??

@jaguar: I am so jealous you are giving up work at the end of the year. I will be working till near the end I think. Ready to give it up now if I could. haha

@autumnlove: sounds like a good appt and yay for good NT news.

Yay welcome to team pink! I need more pink buddies

@Mrs. Blue: thanks for putting this together, my dear! We have our anatomy/ 2nd nt scan on 11/16.....can't wait!

@Mrs. Blue: thanks for the list! We will find out what we are having the last week of November!

I have a feeling it is a boy but every time we hear the heart beat, it is a steady 170 which is what my daughters was. I can't wait to find out!

@jaguar: I was going to say the same thing about the HB/WB gender lists!

Does anyone feel like their bump isn't getting bigger? I wish I could just get an actual bump and stop looking like I ate too many donuts! I'm 17w1d today, but I'm also quite tall, so I wonder if that means that it will take longer for me to really show. Hmph.

@bpaig: Yes, it definitely gets bigger over the course of the day! Much like you, I gained the most early on...I blame all the carbs I stuffed in my face to stave off m/s! I gained the most between weeks 4 and 8 and my weight gain has been slower since then (up 8.5-ish lbs at my 16 week appointment).

@Mrs. Blue: I thought that too but all of my height (I'm 5'11") is in my torso. I didn't expect to be showing this early at all but I definitely am bc twice now I've been offered a seat on the bus!!!

I definitely get bigger throughout the day too! I look wayyyy bigger in the evening.

@Silva: @sslm: @bpaig: I'm 5'10" with a long-ish torso.

Here I am at 15-ish weeks and 16-ish weeks (haven't taken one this week yet, but I'm pretty sure there isn't much difference).

@hergreenapples: so cute!

Did any of you ladies stop 'feeling' pregnant once you got a couple weeks into your second trimester? Like I swear I can suck in most of my 'bump' and I haven't felt anymore flutters (which I know it's still really too early for) but it's weirding me out a little.

@Pumpkinspice: I feel this way. The fatigue has gotten a little better (I actually stayed up until 10pm last night!!) and my stomach just in general feels better - no nausea, fewer stretching pains. I keep reminding myself that in a few months, I'll be huge and uncomfortable and I should enjoy it now! But I agree, it is a little unsettling.

@pumpkinspice, I felt like that once the bloating went away and I felt better, but I'm almost 19 weeks now and there's denying that I'm pregnant. I feel it, I look it, and I get more stretching pain and crampy type feelings now than I used to. So it was a very short lived feeling for me

@Pumpkinspice: I actually said to someone yesterday if it wasn't for the growing belly I wouldn't even know I was pregnant! haha I still get tired easily but am not the bone tired from doing nothing that I was a few weeks ago. It's nice!

@hergreenapples: such a cute bump!

@Mrs. Blue: how exciting! I think we will go crib shopping this weekend. I tried to buy my girl this stuffed elephant I had seen but they had sold it so no congrats on being a girl gift. haha

@sylvie_b: Thanks

@jaguar: You look great!

All went well at the OB appointment today!

He found baby's heartbeat straight away - 156 loud and clear, so no scan needed. My uterus fundal height is measuring 16 weeks - I'm 15+4. Nice and easy, actually.

The funniest thing was that my bladder refused to co-operate today. I got to the hospital early, drank a full bottle of water, turned taps on.. nothing. I finally squeezed out a wee bit of a sample (get it? wee bit!?) and proudly got it ready to give to the widwife... except that the midwife was off today, so no sample needed. WHAT?!

Also, irony? I had to pee so badly on the way home, I had to pull over to use a McDonalds restroom.

Do we have any more gender updates?

I got a bit of a scare this morning - I looked at my referral the OB wrote out, in preparation for the 19-week scan... and he wrote the high risk factors from my NT scan there, to remind them I guess.

It said:

Low Papp-A: <0.18mom
T21 - 1:169
T18 - 1:100

Now, I knew about the Downs risk & the low hormones - but nobody said anything about the T18 risk being EVEN HIGHER. Is it weird? I rang him and he said that it doesn't change anything anyway - since we're against doing the amnio & would carry to term regardless, but still.. I'd just mentally prepared myself for the high risk of 1:169, ya know?

Ah well. 3 weeks til the morph scan.

@blackbird: hCG at the 12 week bloods was 0.58mom, if that helps

@blackbird: It is! (I'm taking anything - just trying to be as zen as possible.) Thanks for the kind words! xxx