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@Synchronicity: Thanks! Any hunches on whether you're having a boy or a girl? I've read that mother's intuition is 60% accurate, so slightly better than the 50/50 chance that gueesing or Hellobee polls afford haha.

@sugarbee: Congrats on the boy!
I think I'm having a girl.

@azjax: Yay! Congrats!

I'm feeling more movements. I have felt movements for a while, but I wasn't sure. The baby's little kicks are getting stronger. I have noticed that the baby doesn't like when my husband presses on my stomach to feel him/her. lol
I can't wait until my anatomy scan.

@azjax: nope! I've had a couple of baby dreams and the baby was a girl but I'm not reading much into that. I'm so eager to know!!

@azjax: We are having a party with snow cones, a seafood boil, etc. I'm working on the game that my husband wants us to play to do the reveal. He wants it to be a day of games between pink vs blue. lol He is competitive.

Is a anybody thinking about names yet? Boys names were really hard for us and we went into delivery with what we thought would most likely be our son's name and a second name in case it didn't suit him.

For girl names, I have an absolute favorite and it is hard to seriously entertain anything else.

@azjax: My husband and I have had one name for each gender picked out for a while, but I still want a back up for each...and I we're still not 100% for our girl name. Too picky

OB appointment today was pretty standard, and I picked up paperwork for the quad screen to do next week or the week after. Anatomy scan is on May 16 and I'll have my monthly appointment on the 25th.

Any other appointments coming up?

I am feeling the baby move more, which is exciting. Trying to finalize names. I want to have it all together by my gender reveal party.

@ssmom: Congratulations and welcome! You are due a day before me.

@ssmom: welcome! I also had a loss immediately before this pregnancy, so you're not alone in feeling apprehensive! Fortunately we have each other to talk about the pregnancy fears and emotions. Do you have any appointments coming up? Any hunches about whether baby #2 is a or a ?

Checkin in with an update. Found out last week we're having baby girl #2! :). Her name is Nora. We also got a call this weekend that my integrated screening came back positive. 1 in 240 chance for DS. I'm not really sure where to go from here or how I feel. When you look at the numbers, it's a 99.5% chance all is well and a .4% chance of something being wrong. I can't seem to understand how those odds can even warrant a "positive". I hate this stupid test and really regret doing it. I opted out with my first daughter but truly expected to get a negative and decided since I'll be switching providers when we move, that I should do all testing. I wish I never did it. Now I'm faced with either worrying all pregnancy (even though the odds are fairly low, the stupid labeling or "positive" is really bothering me). My dr suggests doing the NIPT but it's $1200 and we're not sure if insurance will cover it. We're waiting to hear back. And to be honest, while that test is way more accurate, it's still just a screening test. It still won't tell you for sure. I'm really not ok with doing an amino with my offs. It would be different if I were 1:10 or something. Anyways, I don't know what to think or how to feel. I'm so stressed with our move and now we have this on our plates and have 2 weeks with our current dr to ask questions and determine our next course of action. I feel like it's stealing all of my joy and it's really upsetting.

@azjax we are still waiting on orders :/. We leave in 19 days and have no orders. So no plane tickets booked, no movers scheduled...nothing. I'm a big mess right now.

Hi everyone! Sorry that I feel off the face of the earth there for a bit! We found out we're having a girl. Her name is Ruby Kate and I am so excited. We are done after this baby, so I was really hoping for a girl so that we would have one of each. I'm 14 weeks and still feeling sick, but I'm much less sick than I was with my son when I had HG. Things have been super busy around here. We sold our house and have started packing. We're moving to an apartment for a couple of months while our house is being built. It should be done in Aug.

October 2017 Mamas!
Oct 2 - MRSVDV (#3), CHANZI (#3), SUGARBEE (#2)
Oct 10 - MRSDECEMBER (#2)
Oct 12 - LBEE (#2) , COLEYCAM (#1), SSMOM (#2)
Oct 13 - FANCYGEM (#2)
Oct 14 - SYNCHRONICITY (#1)
Oct 18 - BARREMOMMY (#2)
Oct 19 - AZJAX (#2)
Oct 22 - MRS. DUKES (#2)
Oct 23 - CHRISTI70 (#2)
Oct 25 - MRS.THINMINT (#2)
mid October - JJ88 (#1 - twins!)

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Appointments
May 10 - FANCYGEM - anatomy scan
May 16 - AZJAX - anatomy scan
May 25 - AZJAX, COLEYCAM - anatomy scan
May 26 - SSMOM - anatomy scsn
comment if you have any updates!

@ssmom: that's nice that you can drop in anytime! My anxious nature prompted me to buy a home fetal Doppler when I was pregnant with #1 and it really does help calm my nerves, especially before I can feel regular, predictable movement from the baby or if I think movement has slowed.

@MrsDecember: wow I somehow missed your post! First off, I completely understand the worry on screening positive for DS. I just went through this and it turned out that I have a baby girl without trisomy. The worry was crushing and robbed me of a lot of joy. $1200 is a lot of money, right before a move! If you won't do an amniocentesis, I personally would consider the NIPT. However, we would consider TFMR if baby was very poorly. If that is not something you would consider, then maybe it is better to stick with covered ultrasounds and screening tests. I hope you get orders soon and land safely stateside!

@MrsDecember: Ahhhh congratulations on the good results!!! I'm sorry you had to go through the worry and welcome to the East coast!

@MrsDecember: I'm glad that you had a good report!

@FancyGem: congratulations!!

@FancyGem: congratulations on the boy !!!! Have you selected a name?

Had the anatomy scan and the baby is definitely a girl! So far everything looks ok, we are just waiting for AFP blood work to come back so we can fully rule out open neural tube defects.

How is everyone?