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@sweetooth: How can you stop at just one baby outfit?! Such control!! Can't wait to hear how things go!

@DigAPony: YEP! The Birth Partner is awesome!

@Cara M. 17: we got a white Graco Charleston crib and a white Shermag glider...got a great deal! Bummer about no Bradley classes--I'm trying to get my hands on a student workbook so my husband and I can do it at home. Haven't had any luck yet though.

@sweetooth: Yay how exciting! Do you have any name or nursery ideas for baby boy?

@DigAPony: Yeah I am pretty bummed I'll have to do lots of reading.

@Ash: Maybe it was round ligament pains? Or are you dehydrated?

@Ash: I'm sure you're fine drink lots of water! My midwife said if you're dehydrated it brings on contractions.

@Ash: I think I've been getting BH's for a while already. I notice them more when I'm dehydrated. Today actually. I'm going to ask my midwife about them at my appt on Tuesday.
They freak me out but everything I have read says they are normal.

At 19w2d, I still don't have any movement I can easily identify as baby. I don't have an anterior placenta, either :-S. I keep wondering when I'm going to noticeably feel him.

My shower is now less than 3 weeks(!) because that's the only date my friends could coordinate together. DH and I have been stalking the registry like crazy, cuz that's how we roll.

@MrsCB: I am 22w3d and I only started to feel her move last week. She took awhile, but now I am feeling her pretty regularly and even a few times on the outside. Hopefully you will start to feel him soon!

@NeekieRose: Wow, do you have an anterior placenta? I was figuring by 20 weeks I'd definitely be feeling something. He moves around a LOT, so it's weird that i can't feel him.

*As I type this I just felt a weird pop and now I'm wondering if it was him or breakfast...

@MrsTiz: Yup, we've had some things marked as purchased. DH is obsessive about checking, lol. Of course, some people could be buying things and not marking them off the registry, which would annoy the crap out of me! Happy to critique if you want :).

@MrsCB: I do have an anterior placenta, but it is also super low (actually way too close to the cervix, but it will hopefully move up, otherwise my midwives have already said I would have to be transferred to an OB, but that's a different story). Anyways, since it's super low, I have felt her at the top of my bump, where the placenta isn't.

@Ash: I started feeling bubbles around 16 weeks, maybe, but it took up to 20 weeks to really feel it frequently! And in the last week and a half it's just stopped.

@MrsTiz: I got so freaked out by not feeling her anymore that I took out the Doppler -- I had stopped using it once I started feeling her -- and figured out that she moved down, right on top of my bladder. So I'm not sure if that explains it? I was feeling her up around my belly button before she moved. I read that this is still the time frame where they have lots of room to move around so they're active but not necessarily being active in a way that can be felt frequently.

@NeekieRose: That's interesting about the movement. I'm really hoping it gets stronger in the next couple weeks.

I have a friend who's 37 or 38 weeks right now and most of her pregnancy her placenta was really low and they were warning her she'd need a c-section most likely. A fews ago it moved and now she's cleared for a vaginal delivery! So it can happen :).

@MrsDragon: Same thing over here! I felt him kick right beside my belly button one day, which is high because i'm carrying really REALLY low, now if I feel any movement it's back down near my lady bits. I wish he'd wake up in there!

@MrsTiz: me too! I started getting a bit worried. I used to feel him WAY down low, but I can tell that my uterus has been pushed further up, so I guess the anterior placenta is in the way now

OMG yesterday was horrible. I woke up feeling normal, just way tired. I went to work and almost passed out. My back started hurting really badly and I was so lightheaded. I drank a bunch of water and it helped a little. I ended up going home early and taking a long nap. Today I feel a lot better, but the top of my stomach has been burning like crazy. I have stomach issues anyway and the fact that everything has been pushed up is freaking me out a little.

@ms.janedoe: I just LOVE how our stomachs are already up behind our boobs, lol. So fun.

Anyone else having awful round ligament pain? I'm guessing mine is because it's my third pregnancy and things are just expanding so much faster, but those things HURT. I took a nap on the couch yesterday and when I moved to get up, it felt like my whole stomach seized up into a giant side stitch and just wouldn't let go. I was finally able to get up and walk it off, but I was sore and for the rest of the day, it felt like it was on the verge of doing it again. Yes, SO FUN. A friend of mine who's another pregnancy nerd reminded me that I'm at the beginning of a bug growth spurt and I was like oh, yeah. Although, I swear the size of my uterus has already doubled in the last few weeks. But yeah, couple that with the lovely symphysis pubic pain I've been having all the time and the fact that I ouch when I lift my leg to put on my pants or my undies and I'm seriously questioning my mother's sanity in having 10 pregnancies.