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@yellowbeach: I this graphic!!

@jaguar: I was so thrilled to drop by and see this super excited for you!

I'm also pregnant, due around the same time (Nov). Hating the uncertainty of the first tri, but also not sure how we'll manage three if it works out. Barely managing my two and feeling a huge dose of mom guilt - pregnancy is sooooo exhausting with multiple little ones - you are a complete rockstar for going for #4!

@yellowbeach: Amazing news!!!!!

@jaguar: so, so thrilled for you and this miracle baby - love this sooo much I hope the time flies by and you get the NIPT back asap. Thanks for the encouragement, honestly I've been having more. mom guilt than I can remember in the past because it's so hard to feel like I'm giving enough to my two littles when pregnancy is completely kicking my butt... I'm super happy to be pregnant and holding my breath everything works, as I'm not sure we'll try again if it doesn't, but also definitely feeling the guilt....

10w1d here - bub measured at 10w3 so that was a relief. I do NIPT bloods tomorrow morning, and they're hopeful I'll get results by next Friday. A week of baited breath.

Here's the little one looking a bit more baby like!

@periwinklebee: hahah oh gosh... they really do pick up everything don't they? You poor thing.

I did the Percept this time and apparently they test within Australia, so it should HOPEFULLY be faster than the Harmony took last time.

Anyone else here feeling the pregnancy blahs? I've had an off-and-on nasty headache for the past week, which has made the nausea that much worse. Usually the most helpful thing to manage them is Advil, and without that nothing does much to take the edge off. On top of that, DH says he is having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that we are actually having a 3rd, and just seems increasingly unhappy about the situation. He reminds me that he never wanted kids and only was on board because I wanted it - I'm never sure what to make of this or how to respond. Genuine feeling, expression of frustration after a hard day, an attempt to justify why he needs/expects extra breaks from the kids, or probably some combination? My overall mental state isn't great, which just makes me feel that much more pessimistic about awaiting the genetic results and NT scan...I try to remind myself that much of my disillusionment is just pregnancy hormones - I feel like I struggle much more actually with the effect of hormones on my mental state during pregnancy than postpartum.

@jaguar: ugh hurry up NIPT!!! Hang in there! I'm struggling against the compulsion to check the website, even though I know they will send an email when the status changes. I really hope the next few days fly by for you, despite the suspense and exhaustion

@bhbee: Thank you so much I remember telling my husband at one point during the third tri that I actually preferred it to first tri when I was nauseous and puking for months on end. And he was shocked, like "it can't possibly have been worse then compared to now, when you just visibly look so uncomfortable." Lol...But I definitely had no appreciation for the misery of pregnancy nausea/exhaustion until I lived it, whereas it's pretty obvious that being super pregnant can't be comfortable. So thankful for the amazing support here.

My myriad account says the genetic results are under review by a clinician and will be available tomorrow. Eek... I know there are a lot of things that can go wrong at different points, but this definitely feels like a big hurdle.

@jaguar: Sending all the good vibes to get the results back before the weekend!!! I feel exactly the same way, in that every time my husband talks about "I can't believe we're going to have 3 kids" or "how are we going to handle 3 kids", I'm like "but we have no idea if it is actually going to happen." Ugh... Getting out the doppler seems like a good way to calm nerves. I've used it a few times - found a hb right away the first time, then a week later couldn't find it at all and that was definitely depressing, but when I tried a few days later I found it again, which was a huge relief....

Also, it's a ! I honestly hadn't let myself think much about the sex since after loss it somehow feels weird, but didn't have a strong preference either way, as we already have one of each...

@periwinklebee: congrats! such a relief I’m sure!

Oh my gosh.. low risk! And.... have a guess what we're having?

@jaguar: yay on low risk!! I’m guessing boy too but really no idea

@jaguar: Best news ever!!! I am jumping up and down in excitement for you!!! And omg, four sisters the cuteness is going to be completely next level! Plus, the justification to just go wild buying adorable girl clothes, because you know they are going to get used four times, lol (I'm seriously jealous )

@periwinklebee: haha well, to be fair, this kiddo will LIVE in hand me downs !!!

@jaguar: hah hah, my boy hand me downs for the first couple of years are in worse shape than the cute dresses I got for DD because they were used by like five kids before they found our way to us. Lol, thankfully kids at that age are unlikely to complain

@Jessiemuller88: Thank you! Hope you and the kiddos are doing well!