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@Mrs. Blue: Welcome!! You are hilarious ... and yes, you are the woman with ALL THE CHILDREN! Four?! Go, mama!!! Sorry you have to wait so long for your first u/s ... are they just booked until then? Hopefully, it'll fly by (I mean, you do have your hands full, I'm sure).

@Mrs. Blue: Congrats and welcome! you're not a crazy lady! I plan on having 4 LO's hopefully!!

@Mrs. Blue: fingers crossed for a healthy SINGLE baby! Welcome!

Exhaustion has been pretty bad, but as soon as it's 7pm, I get a second wind and I can't sleep until 11. If I could sleep at 8pm I feel like it would solve all my problems!

I *might* be getting over some of my food aversions - well, I still can't eat food cooked at home, which is SO WEIRD. BUT, I just had a huge burrito, ate the whole thing, and I'm hungry again.

Anyone else experiencing symptoms earlier? Or seeing them end sooner this time around?

@Littlejoy I found that my symptoms came on much sooner and stronger than last time. Now that the diclegis seems to be working well I don't really know if they are ending sooner.

We are definitely going to find out the gender, we did last time and I am too impatient to be team green! I keep asking our daughter if she wants a girl or boy baby and she keeps saying she wants 2 girls. I was so relieved when we only had one baby on the first scan!

I have my NT scan and second prenatal apt on the 25th and think we will probably do the nipt test at that time.

Let's see... about me. I'm 28, live in TX, and have been married to DH for almost 7 years. I work part time in real estate. I love to read, watch movies, and travel. Like many of you I'm really into Star Wars and Harry Potter. I also love history and read and watch a lot of biographies, documentaries, and historical fiction.

I'm pretty much counting down the hours until my appointment Friday!

@Mrs. Blue: congratulations! I'm so happy for you guys!

@Revel: I'm glad the diclegis is helping. I hope the cramps are nothing and that you get to see a perfect baby with heartbeat tomorrow!

I'm enjoying reading all the intros everyone is posting! It's fun to get to know everyone better.

We live just outside Detroit, Michigan in the sweetest little community ever. I'm 34 and this baby will arriving just in time to save me from the dreaded AMA (of course that also means we'll be paying OOP for the nipt.) My husband and I have been together since high school in 2000 and have been married for 8.5 years. Our daughter is 2 so they will be just shy of 3 years apart. I'm "glad" to see I'm not the intended one with a gender preference, I didn't have one with my first but I'd really love a sister for my daughter-plus practically I'd really love to reuse her clothes and if it's another girl they will share a room at least for a little while.

Good luck to everyone with appointments tomorrow!

Adding in @Mrs. Blue: and the appointment updates...

Aug 3 - PetitDuck (#2)
Aug 5 - KNS (#2)
Aug 7 - MamaFern (#2), LittleJoy (#2)
Aug 9 - MrsD2442 (#1)
Aug 10 - Mrs. Blush (#1), PeachyKeen #2)
Aug 11 - Cole (#2)
Aug 14 - Spinny (#2)
Aug 16 - MommySLP (#3), SapphireSun (#2), Mrs. Pickle (#2)
Aug 17 - Nolababy (#2), Mrs.Pinecone316 (#2), Mrs. Blue (#4)
Aug 18 - Pmerr (#2)
Aug 19 - Rachebon (#2), MrsBrewer (#2)
Aug 21 - AZjax (#2), Torchwood (#2)
Aug 23 - Mrs. Microscope (#2), ColeyCam (#1)
Aug 25 - Revel (#2), PhillyDogLover (#1)
Aug 29 - CodderGirl (#2)

Appts:
Jan 5 - Rachebon, ColeyCam, AZjax, Revel, PetitDuck
Jan 6 - Mrs. Pickle
Jan 10 – Pmerr, Nolababy
Jan 13 - Mrs. Microscope
Jan 17 – PeachyKeen, LittleJoy
Jan 20 – MommySLP
Jan 25 – Mrs. Blue, KNS

Omg y'all. The toddler is having such a hard night. I've already had a complete meltdown and I just feel like getting pregnant again was the worst idea. How the hell am I going to handle nights like this with two? I'm so overwhelmed. Tell me I'm not going to regret having another.

@Mrs. Blue: OMG this is too funny. I remember when I was in my obsessive 'I can't wait to have a baby' phase I read through all of your pre-ttc posts and they really helped me. Very glad that you are here with us! I think four kids sounds amazing - I've seen so many families I admire with four kids.

@nolababy: I am having a US the same day at 8 weeks (almost 9). That seems so early to me! haha. Last time, I had mine scheduled for about 10 weeks, but I went in just under a week before the scheduled date since I was off for bereavement. And I was only going in that early because I wasn't going to be doing any of the testing.

@Mrs. Blue: The good thing about summer pregnancy is you can just throw on a knit dress and go, and flip flops are acceptable footwear when your feet are swollen

I'm in Georgia, so I basically stayed in the AC a lot. Floating in a cool pool felt amazing once my ankles got so swollen (pre-eclampsia, so they were bad). My worst moment was an outdoor employee appreciation dinner for DH in mid-July - I was so hot and dizzy I know I wasn't very good for conversation, but otherwise it wasn't too bad.

@Mrs Blue - Welcome! My secret wish is 4 but then I look at my 1 year old's utter destruction of our house (and sleep!) and wonder if I'm high on something

@Revel Here's hoping MS is shorter lived second time round. My diet this week has been reduced to scrambled eggs, toast, and pizza!! At least... protein?!

I'm 29, live on Cape Cod with DH + DS. We just moved back to the US after living in Oxford, England for 7 years so having a bit of reverse culture shock but mostly loving it. I am a Program Manager for an educational software company in the UK, working from home.

@coddergirl: The trick is that they grow up and biology somehow dulls the memory of what one-year olds are like. One and two are NOT my jam, so trying to decide if we wanted another one while my almost 2-year old wrecking ball is wreaking havoc everywhere was not an easy decision!

@Mrs. Blue: I have wanted a winter/spring baby, but then worried about my feet! lol

@coddergirl: thanks, you too! I'm in the midst of a bad stretch, since about midday yesterday, hoping I get another good day soon. I'm eating primarily bagels with cream cheese, wonton soup and the occasional egg. Feel like utter crap.

@Mrs. Blue: She's 18mo, so she'll hopefully be about 26mo when this one arrives. Their due dates are actually about 2 weeks apart, but since she was early they *should* be farther apart. And thank you. I think at this point it's hard because I'm not attached to this pregnancy as an actual baby at all, so all I can see right now is that it will be hard. I can't imagine how you survived. I was so afraid of twins with my betas being higher than expected. I would have cried.

@Mrs. Pickle: Yes! Most of my alone time right now is when she's asleep, but I don't expect their naps to align for a while, and I don't think I'll have the energy to stay up as late as I do these days when I'm dealing with two. So when do I do me? I'm a major introvert, so I need that time to recover even from my own kid.

hello all I've been following along and I think I'm ready to come out of the woodwork and congrats to everyone!

Location: NH

EDD: August 11

First child? Number 2! DS is 22 months old now and will be almost 2.5 years when this one comes out!

Any symptoms? Lots of nausea, but I've only thrown up a few times, and complete exhaustion.

Who have you told? We told our parents over Christmas and my Brother and his girlfriend.

Current thoughts/feelings/fears? This was a bit of an unexpected surprise and we really struggled with how we are going to move forward in our careers and life with two kiddos. I can't honestly say I'm away from those feelings yet and they have dampened my excitement a bit. I do smile when I think about my son being a brother

I had an apt today but no ultrasound. We had one back at 5.5 weeks and we have another ultrasound on 1/24.

Welcome to all the new August mamas!

I had been getting super anxious going into today, since my first pregnancy turned out to be blighted ovum that we found out about at the first ultrasound. But today we saw a little blob with a heartbeat!

As far as about me, I'm 33 and live in NYC. I met my husband 11 years ago and we've been married for 6. I work in policy research, and telecommute full time. My daughter is about to turn 2, so the little ones will be just over 2 1/2 years apart.

I can relate to the fears about juggling two kids. I think it's even worse right now because I'm so tired and nauseous all the time that I feel like I'm not being a great parent to dd already. But I know I had some version of these worries the first time around--I remember having busy nights where we didn't have dinner til 9 or 10 and thinking "how will I manage to keep a child fed?" and yet somehow we do...

@Cole: I'm also secretly hoping for a girl for a lot of the same reasons you mentioned above. I've decided to allow myself to think I'm having a boy until we find out so I can get used to the idea and hopefully not be disappointed if it's true. So far it's kind of working...? We should find out in another 3 weeks either way - eek!