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@Mrs. Toad: That's great news about the nausea! Interesting about feeling full - I feel like I'm starving all the time and I don't remember being this hungry with my daughter.

Today is our first day back to work/daycare after about two weeks off. I was getting a little stir crazy so I'm glad to be back.

When did you potty train your oldest? I think it would be easier to deal with a still-in-diapers toddler than a newly potty trained toddler with a newborn.

@Mrs. Toad: My daughter showed signs of readiness around the same age and we procrastinated and trained at 2.5. It clicked super quickly for her and she didn't have accidents at all. Hopefully yours will be the same and it won't be an issue with a baby!

Hello! Sorry for my long absence. I take a few weeks off of all social media at the end of each year. I'm finally feeling better too. I haven't been sick in a week (knock on wood) and seem to have found a prenatal I can keep down (my fourth brand to try). A bump has definitely appeared! So I'm trying to learn how to dress myself for this new changing body.

Hope everyone had a great new year! I can't believe it's 2019...

While it's great to get back into the swing of things, I totally miss all the down time I had with my babies! The next week and a half at work is killer for me, but after that, should be smooth sailing. But now that I'm back at work, the kids can't start school fast enough (next week thankfully).

My son is turning 3 in a few days and he's STILL not potty trained! But, he is peeing and pooping on his little potty by himself, just not 100% of the time. I do think he'll be potty trained fully soon enough but will let him take the lead. We've loosened up on potty training after trying boot camp two months back and he ended up holding in #2 for two days! And had major anxiety. I was hoping to have a decent break from diapers between baby #2 and baby #3 but it's cutting close now. I've been doing diapers everyday for the last four and half years if you count my daughter.

I'm still in that mini bump / bloated phase at 18-19 weeks. I only seem to "pop" if I've had a big meal which isn't often due to nausea. I've been feeling okay but I'm still taking B6+Unisom. I skipped a couple of days during the holidays thinking I was out of the woods completely and paid for it severely.

Hope you're all doing well mamas!

@skinnycow: I feel like my weight gain fluctuated a lot throughout my second pregnancy. I gained rapidly some weeks, and then nothing for another week or two. I think it all evens out by the end, I wouldn't worry!

Hello ladies. Glad to see all the good messages.

Can someone remove me from the due date list when you have a moment. Sadly at my monthly appointment today - our little guy didn’t have a heartbeat. Our doctor warned us so we weren’t shocked but it is so gut wrenching. He looked so peaceful on the ultrasound that I’ll carry that memory with me forever.

Best of luck to all of you and I really mean that! - I won’t be on hellobee I don’t think but who knows - this pregnancy wasn’t planned and my DH swears (still even today) we are going to have a healthy beautiful baby girl before I leave my current assignment. There always hope.

@MrsJBeeG: I'm so sorry. Even when it's expected, it's still not easy. Sending you all the hugs, and I hope your hubby is right

@MrsJBeeG: I am so sorry. Take care of yourself

@MrsJBeeG: thinking of you and your husband

@MrsJBeeG: sending all the love

@bhbee: @Sams Mom: @Mrs. Toad: @skinnycow: @foodiebee: @LabradorLover: @crazydoglady: @MamaBear87: @Kaohinani:

Thank you all for taking the time from your day to think of me, my DH and our little boy.

I can be honest here that I am crushed - the grief has been nearly overwhelming today. But I know that as time goes on, I’ll learn to handle this loss better. I don’t know what the future holds for me as it relates to a rainbow child but I honestly wish you all the best in your own quests to have healthy babies or to raise adorable kids.

@MrsJBeeG: I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I can't imagine how difficult it must be. Thinking of you.

@SupernovaJ: I'm team green as well.

How's everyone doing? I can't believe we are all around the halfway mark of pregnancy! I hit 20 weeks yesterday and have my anatomy scan on Friday.

If you were/are TG, did you opt not to see 3D images of your baby? In my daughter's 3D images, she actually looked like a girl, and my DS totally looked like a boy. I'm trying to avoid any clues yet I'm so curious what the baby looks like, not that the images are always accurate. I know for a lot of babies, you can't really tell with the 3D image either way. Not sure what we'll do on Friday...

@SupernovaJ: Also doing well! I'm 18 weeks and this pregnancy is really flying by. I started feeling distinct kicks a few days ago and now I can feel them from the outside. It's very sporadic, though, and I can usually only feel her when I'm in bed at night.

I have my anatomy scan tomorrow and am excited to see her looking like a real baby and not just a little blob.

Ultrasound went well. Baby mostly cooperated. Everything looks good and is reading a few days ahead. Baby was down low nestled into my pelvis. I go back in a month to get pictures of the spine. Baby was calm and wouldn't change position. However, no concerns because problems with the spine usually show up in the brain as well and those looked good.

Hope everyone else's ultrasounds go as well or better.

We had our level 3 u/s today. It was pretty cool to see him/her actually looking baby-like! Baby was moving around and cooperative. Everything looked great except that they found a very small calcium deposit in the heart, an EIF. The dr told us that combined with our negative MT21 and negative AFP results, and the fact that she could only see it from one direction and not in others (leading her to believe that it was in the process of going away), she does not feel concerned by it. But she did tell us that if we Googled it, we'd find people worried about it with Downs. Of course, poor DH immediately looked worried. DS is one of his biggest fears. I've done a little bit of Googling (how could I not?) today between projects, and from what I've seen, there's basically a very, very low chance for DS when this is the only thing found and the blood tests don't have supporting results. Anyone else have a calcium deposit in a previous u/s they can share their experience with?

ETA I'm pretty sure I'm feeling movement!!!

@foodiebee: Considering all of the facts they gave you, I would trust your MT21 results.

I'm still rarely feeling movement. Occasionally at night in one specific location. The ultrasound made me feel better knowing everything is ok. I felt DD at about 16 weeks, but didn't feel DS until closer to 21 weeks.

@foodiebee: Both my DD and DS had a calcium deposit in the heart detected via ultrasound, and my DS also had another one in the stomach? Liver? I cannot remember the organ. Since my son had two, they recommended we get another scan at MFM and it was still there. I did worry a bit but tried not to think about it too much. They were both perfectly fine when born, no issues to date and they are 5 and 3. From what I gather, it is somewhat common and usually disappears and poses no problems.

@skinnycow: @Mrs. Toad: @bhbee: @SupernovaJ: Thanks for the responses, all! (And sorry for my slow reply. Having a hard time keeping up with online life lately.) Anyway, I had an apt. with my dr today, and she is unconcerned about the EIF and commented that the dr who did the u/s doesn't think we need to come back for a repeat scan, so I'm trying to let that + our other testing keep me from stressing about it.

I did want to ask: For those of you who have had a doula or considered one, can you speak to how you made the choice to hire/not hire one? We went to a meet-and-greet last week and DH is feeling like hiring one would be a good idea, but I'm on the fence about it. My dr today was basically like, "I don't mind them and you can do it if you want to, but our nurses are awesome and I think you could save the money."

The flip side is that the doula isn't a huge fan of the hospital where I'm delivering because she believes the C-section rate is high (which it is! I asked my dr about this, and she said it is high, but to remember that the state where I live has less-than-stellar general population health with obesity, high blood pressure, etc., factoring into the C-section rate).

My goal is to give natural birth my best shot, but I'm not opposed to pain meds; I just want to give it my best first. I'm at a loss as to whether a doula is for me.