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@Mrs. Peanut: LO #1 was a July baby, and we sent out our Christmas cards late so we could announce on them. This was the card we used.

I'm not sure what we will do this time! We aren't telling family until Xmas day when I'll be 13.5wk since we are want to be enthusiastic and not tentative when we announce.

Soo happy about all the good ultrasounds reports.

How was everyone's weekend?

Mine was uneventful. Actually felt a little decent so I did some much needed house work.
So I tried some orange juice this morning, sounded good in my head, safe to say I will not be drinking any more. You ladies craving it can have it all.
I love all the Christmas announcement ideas. They are so cute. I was thinking about doing the stocking photo for a social media announcement or just having MIL (she's a photographer) do a session that we can post on social media that will announce the news. Not sure yet. I still haven't decided how we will announce on Thanksgiving to the whole family. I thought about letting the husband wear a shirt that somehow announces it or me wear a shirt saying "eating for two" but I am not completely sold on the idea. Any other ideas?

Hope you all have a lovely Monday.
-9w1d

My next appointment is Dec 16 and I'll have my NT scan and MaternityT test then. I'll be 12 weeks by then.

I think we'll announce our pregnancy on Christmas Eve since we'll be with extended family. I'll be @13 weeks by then. Parents know already. We'll tell our siblings next week at Thanksgiving.

We're going to send our parents a little announcement in the mail because I getting mail will be fun. We're still not sure what is happening for Thanksgiving yet so we don't want to tell them then and some other people who live closer have already found out so we need to tell them soon. I'll be 12 weeks just before thanksgiving and I have an ultrasound this week. That makes me feel more willing to talk about it with who ever we wind up seeing that day.

Our Christmas announcement will just be social media because I think everyone else will know by then.

@Mrs. Pink: most everyone that I see in a daily basis already know, I'm announcing on thanksgiving to people I hardly ever see, so it hasn't been that hard to keep a secret

@starlitsky: my appointment falls on 11w6d, thanksgiving I will be 12w1d

@rkitty welcome! Whenever I'm hungry I want salty food too, which is weird cause I am a huge sweets person.

Rkitty: Welcome & Congratulations.

@RKitty: I'm in Eastern Wa too! SE Wa to be specific!

@RKitty: ooh so you're on team green? I definitely can't wait that long to find out! I've been craving both salty and sweet, but a little more salty so we'll see if it holds true for me...

btw just a tip for everyone, you can click on "reply" on each post so you don't have to type out everyone's username, and by doing so it notifies them of your reply via email! Or you can type out the name but make sure it includes the : at the end.

can't believe Thanksgiving is next week! and then December! our first trimester will be over before we know it, ladies!!

Location: Kansas

EDD: June 25, 2016

How far along: 8w3d

First child? 2nd, this is oddly enough my second round in the June boards I had a 2012 junebug and this one is a surprise! Just FYI, z-packs really do take the goalie down

First doctor appointment: I had an initial appointment last month, I go back for my first OB appointment & u/s next Monday (11/23).

Any symptoms so far? Being a crazy person? My hormones are out of this world. I wasn't like this last time! DH is convinced it's a girl bc I'm acting cray. I'm also nauseated about 80% of the time, so I'm living off of bagels, cereal and apples. I'm sure my doctor would be SUPER impressed.

Who have you told? Basically everyone but our parents. My girlfriends & coworkers know, but we're going to announce to family on Thanksgiving. Even though it's a surprise baby I know our families are going to be SO excited!

@doodlepoodle: Welcome! That is so neat that you'll have two june babies! Your maternity and baby clothes will all be the same season (if your LO is the same gender or you had gender neutral stuff!)

@starlitsky: I am tied with two ideas. 1.) I wear a shirt that says "thankful" with a arrow pointing at my stomach. 2.) My husband wear a shirt that says "baby daddy". I really need to decide, considering its next week. Do you have any ideas how you are going to announce (if you do)? Thanks for the tip. I am doing it now, helps a lot! I am ready for the end of this trimester. Ready for little kicks & a cute baby bump (instead of bloat)

@RKitty: I have also heard salty = boy. My best friend has a boy & a girl, it was true to her. She craved salty with the boy & sweet with the girl. We will see. I wish I could go team green, I just don't think I have the will power to wait. LOL. It would be exciting though!

@meadow: Christmas announcements are so much fun. I wanted to do ours then, I would have been further along AND I had so many cute ideas on how to announce. But the husband said he just "couldn't" wait.

@doodlepoodle: Welcome & Congratulations.

Super excited for Thanksgiving. I love family time & all the good food. Hoping it'll be a good day & the morning (all day) sickness takes a day off.

-9w2d

I'm so jealous of everyone's announcement plans!! I really want to announce around Thanksgiving when I'm 10 weeks, but trying to respect DH's wishes. Unfortunately m/c's just change the way we approach these things.

I have a work party on 12/10 and I feel like I'll be showing by then at 11.5 weeks since it's my 2nd pregnancy, but I can't say anything since our parents won't know!

-8w2d

@RKitty: Congrats and welcome!

So exciting to hear how everyone's announcements go next week! We've already told all of our immediate family so now we'll just be sitting on the news until after we have our NT scan at 12-13 weeks. We don't have Thanksgiving here anyway (boo) so we won't be at any big family gatherings until we're home for Christmas anyway.

I finally had my first midwife appt yesterday! No scan but they're using my LMP as my date for now, which puts me at 10w5d, even though I'm pretty sure I'm only 8w3d, but it means I should have my dating scan sooner. They would normally do it at the same time as the NT scan, but I have a feeling that in going by my LMP, my scan will be too early for the NT, so I'll have to go back for another scan a week or two later.

I'm totally bored with the first tri and am so ready to move on. I'm incredibly grateful that it's been easy so far but time just seems to be moving so slowly. And annoyingly enough, my pants are all getting a bit tight already :-(. With my previous two, I avoided maternity clothes until about 24 weeks, I don't think that's going to be the case this time. Boo.

11 weeks today- we had a surprise US yesterday because I went in for a UTI and when I didn't have one they wanted to check on babe because of the cramping and our history-- things were great and baby was moving its arm during the US

My midwife got on me a bit about being fairly dehydrated and uh, I guess she could tell from my sample that I'm not eating enough so I've got to make a plan to get more water and calories in while not getting sick from having a full stomach

@Ree723: I'm ready to get out of the first tri too and tell everyone and wear cute pregnancy clothes! Last time I hid it as long as possible and didn't really talk about it. This time I'm more used to the idea of being pregnant.

I was in regular jeans till 5 months! I'm definitely not going to make it that long this time.

Edit to say, it does feel like it is going faster this time thankfully.
-11 w 1 d *I think, not positive

@MrsKRB: Thanks for that feedback - I am glad you think its nuts too and that I'm not crazy for finding that number overwhelming! I will ask my OB next week for her advice on what my goal should be.

@MMcAlli: I like the idea of your husband wearing a shirt. I'm also excited for Thanksgiving food - and not feeling bad about eating as much as I want! The past few years I felt like I needed to be more responsible now that my metabolism is slowing in comparison to 10 years ago This year - I will eat all I can stomach

@Mrs. Pink: Yay for the ultrasound - must have been so cool to see the arms moving. At my last scan I was so focused on seeing the heartbeat that I forgot to notice if the little ones were moving at all - though I think they were pretty stationary....

AFM - I am feeling my appetite ramp up this week - which is good. It is a weird feeling to be really hungry at 9:30am after eating breakfast at 6am - hehe. I have one week left on the progesterone from my clinic and I am so pumped to be nearly done with that!

-8w4d

Went for my 12 week appointment and my doctor couldn't find the heartbeat with the fetal monitor. She said that it wasn't a reason to panic because it was still kind of early to hear the heartbeat on the fetal monitor. She gave me a quick ultrasound and we heard the heartbeat AND I saw the baby move its foot! It was the first time I saw the baby looking like an actual baby (could see the head, body and foot), it was so awesome! Was really panicked but then it turned out well.

@runnerd: I feel bad because most of our friends know but my parents don't! My MIL does. I'm not close to my mom, but my Dad and I are super close - but they're separated. My mom is really...selfish...if she finds out that my Dad knew before her she'll guilt me forever. Ugh. OH well.

@Ree723: I KNOW! Can you believe this?! I hope you get a scan soon so you can get a due date set!

I love seeing these u/s pictures...it's getting me more excited for mine on Monday!