Hellobee Boards

@Mrs R.: yay for your appt!!!!! That's great! And I've been feeling sicker lately myself- I feel like I regressed! Ready for the second "golden" trimester!

Updating the list with my upcoming appointment.

DUE DATES
10/1: KaitlynB - saw baby jumping and kicking!
10/3: RedMini1
10/4: Purple
10/4: Evansjamie - saw heartbeat!
10/6: Orangepekoe
10/7: ChefAimee
10/8: Mrs. Monkey - saw heartbeat!
10/8: MRSTIZ
10/9: Chillybear
10/9: Mrs. Mochi - saw heartbeat twice!
10/10: Mrs R. - saw heartbeat!
10/11: Mrs. Spoon
10/11: AprilK
10/14: KJfromNJ - saw heartbeat!
10/15: Lozza
10/15: KnockedUp_NowWhat - saw heartbeat!
10/15: TFrances
10/16: BunInOven - saw heartbeat and baby kicking!
10/20: JenniMac-saw heartbeat!
10/24: LAWTo9
10/20: fuzzypeaches
10/20: MRS. YOYO
10/22: Beaker
10/28: ladybee
10/30: Sweet T

UPCOMING APPTS
3/26 - Chillybear (ultrasound)
3/26 - KnockedUp_NowWhat (quick doppler for heartbeat appt)
4/1-JenniMac (11 weeks/ ultrasound-if good, we will go public)
4/1 - ladybee (10 week ultrasound) will go public if goes well
4/2- KJfromNJ (12 week appt/ultrasound- ON BIRTHDAY!)
4/3 - Mrs. Mochi (Nuchal screening - blood/ultrasound)
4/8 - evansjamie (14 week appointment)
4/22 - KnockedUp_NowWhat (15 week check-up)
4/22 - BunInOven (15 week appointment)
4/23 - Mrs. Mochi (15/16 week follow-up appt - ultrasound)
5/21 - TFrances (20 week ultrasound/check-up)

IN OUR THOUGHTS & PRAYERS:
chacha
littleleveesmommy

@ladybee: Don't freak out. Spotting is normal. We DTD the day before my appointment and everything was fine (but sore), and baby had a strong heartbeat.

@Chillybear: yay for appointment day!

Updating the list with my next appointment.

DUE DATES
10/1: KaitlynB - saw baby jumping and kicking!
10/3: RedMini1
10/4: Purple
10/4: Evansjamie - saw heartbeat!
10/6: Orangepekoe
10/7: ChefAimee
10/8: Mrs. Monkey - saw heartbeat!
10/8: MRSTIZ
10/9: Chillybear
10/9: Mrs. Mochi - saw heartbeat twice!
10/10: Mrs R. - saw heartbeat!
10/11: Mrs. Spoon
10/11: AprilK
10/14: KJfromNJ - saw heartbeat!
10/15: Lozza
10/15: KnockedUp_NowWhat - saw heartbeat!
10/15: TFrances
10/16: BunInOven - saw heartbeat and baby kicking!
10/20: JenniMac-saw heartbeat!
10/24: LAWTo9
10/20: fuzzypeaches
10/20: MRS. YOYO
10/22: Beaker
10/28: ladybee
10/30: Sweet T

UPCOMING APPTS
3/26 - Chillybear (ultrasound)
3/26 - KnockedUp_NowWhat (quick doppler for heartbeat appt)
4/1-JenniMac (11 weeks/ ultrasound-if good, we will go public)
4/1 - ladybee (10 week ultrasound) will go public if goes well
4/2- KJfromNJ (12 week appt/ultrasound- ON BIRTHDAY!)
4/3 - Mrs. Mochi (Nuchal screening - blood/ultrasound)
4/8 - evansjamie (14 week appointment)
4/22 - KnockedUp_NowWhat (15 week check-up)
4/22 - BunInOven (15 week appointment)
4/23 - Mrs. Mochi (15/16 week follow-up appt - ultrasound)
4/23- Mrs R. (15 wk appt)
5/21 - TFrances (20 week ultrasound/check-up)

IN OUR THOUGHTS & PRAYERS:
chacha
littleleveesmommy

We had our appointment today. It was quick in and out just to hear the heartbeat with the doppler. It was so strong! I am smiling just thinking about it. She said it was in the 160s. It was so reassuring and I'm more excited now than I have been so far, I think. I now feel a lot more confident about "going public." We'll tell the rest of our family and friends over the next couple weeks, though we'll probably wait for a Facebook announcement until I have talked to work... and I still haven't decided when exactly that will be.

Soon, I will be able to start using my REAL Hellobee profile on this thread!

@knockedup_nowwhat: YAYYYY! I can't wait to switch to my "true" identity too One week til my birthday and my appt!

@Chillybear: SO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Congratulations!!! So glad you had such a great appt!

@Chillybear: YAY! That is the cutest little nugget!

Speaking of nuggets, haha, do any of you have nicknames for your babies yet? We mostly say "the baby" but I have started to refer to him/her as a "nugget."

AND speaking him or her, do any of you have an inkling so far? I feel really strongly that it's a boy, but every dream I've had, it's a girl! I even had a dream where the midwife said to us while she was doing the doppler, "It's a girl!" And I was like, "Um, how do you know?"

@ladybee: Don't worry about the lighter line. We had a girl on our board worry about the same thing. It turns out that later in pregnancy your body also produces a different kind of hCG which is not measured on a pregnancy test. Apparently if you dilute your pee with half water and then test, it works. This was proven by her, and told to her by her doctor. And that blood after sex is totally normal.

@evansjamie: Haha, Woogie! That's close to the nickname our dog has.

@Chillybear: That is the cutest way to reveal it! And a really cute nickname.

You made me remember the Chinese gender chart, so I tried it out... and it said girl! I then tested it for me and my two brothers... 3 out of 3 correct! It also seems like it is mostly right here on the boards, so now I am thinking it could be a girl a little bit more... but I would put my money on a boy still!

@evansjamie: Would you do the scan with your provider, or at a third-party location? I'm a little hesitant about freestanding ultrasound places. It's tough because I'm not a huge fan of frequent ultrasounds in principle, but it's so hard because you want to see your baby! It's really tough for me to wrap my head around the idea that 20 weeks will be our only one from here forward.

You mentioning that your DH will be out of town though reminded me that I will need to schedule ours before DH goes out of town for work for SIX. WEEKS. He will come home on most weekends, but guh. That's going to suck. I hate that he will miss out on that part of my pregnancy.

I need to vent a little. I'll be 9 weeks tomorrow and still haven't had an appointment. I met with the nurse and did paperwork and I've had a ton of blood work done, but I still haven't seen a doctor/midwife. I'm so much more anxious this time around. I have no idea if everything is all right. It's just freaking me out. My husband keeps bugging me about telling our families but I really want to wait until we're sure everything is okay. I have an appointment scheduled for April 17th, which is when I'll be 12 weeks. It's standard for our hospital but the wait is killing me!

@knockedup_nowwhat: DH is dying for a girl because his family is filled with boys so he's been referring to the baby as "she". I don't really have a feeling either way but I've been referring to the baby as "he" to try to bring DH around to the idea that it is a possibility!

I just tried the Chinese gender chart as well and it says girl.

We're a geeky family. No cutsie nickname can be accepted in our household. We've been calling the baby Schrodinger, as in Schrodinger's cat... cause we don't know it's actually there or not. hee hee... I'm sure the baby will be called Schrodinger until it's born, that's just how our family works.

First ultrasound this morning and it matched up with my lmp. 9 weeks 6 days, heart rate 168. The baby was actually moving a lot. I don't remember our first one doing that! Our last name is Te (pronounced like the letter t), so we are just calling baby Te2.

@knockedup_nowwhat: @Chillybear: @lawt09: Yayyy!!! Happy to hear your appointment went so well!!!

@ladybee: Hey! My morning sickness is (knock on wood) mostly gone as well. I'm 11w2d. Excited for you to have your appointment!

Is congestion a pregnancy symptom? I have been SO stuffed up this week, and its really annoying! I thought maybe I just had allergies.

@knockedup_nowwhat: I have been calling it "the unborn" as of late. I have also refered to it as "the baby," and the "little croissant" (my husband's a baker). Also, I have an overwhelming feeling it's a girl. I also had a dream the other night that I had a baby girl too. I'm not banking on my instincts, however.

I have my twelve week check-up on Monday. I'm super excited to have seen how it has grown and what my doctor says.

I just refer to it as "New Baby." Like, LO knows there's a blurry black-and-white photo on the fridge that is called "New Baby."