SpecialGift89

Glad it went well with in the in laws and possible movements of LO. I was in denial for about a week until I asked my mum if thats what I was feeling and she said most likely. After I excepted it movements got more frequent throughout the day and it's normal to feel LO now. Hope it's not long for you. x

CamoQueen

18 weeks and up a ticker!

I am so excited! ONLY ONE WEEK UNTIL MY ULTRASOUND!!! This week is going to draaag by, I know it! DH has been rubbing my belly and kissing it and talking to it, all of which is very sweet. He's been so nice about me going on and on about the ultrasound... I'm just dying to see LO again and find out if it's a little boy or girl. I will be stuffing my face with peanut butter cups before my appointment so bean is nice and active.

Speaking of active, I really think I've been feeling the movements! For the last few days I've been feeling little almost... flicks in my lower abdomen. I guess it's kind of like a muscle spasm, almost, but it only happens maybe once or twice and it varies where I feel it. Plus when I was using the doppler last night, bean was moving like mad! So I guess I'm feeling the LO, which makes me happy. I figure he/she must be pretty close to the surface anyway, 'cause I've been able to hear the HB since I was 8 weeks, so there's no reason I shouldn't feel bean by now. Aww, I love my baby.

So I have been presented with the opportunity to start a new job after LO's born... the pay is really great (starting at around $70-90k a year), especially at my age. BUT the hours are crazy -- 12 hour shifts varying days and nights -- and finding childcare would be a real chore. I'm still a little torn on what to do, but I'm leaning towards declining so I can stay home with the baby. I'd love the extra money, but I don't know if it's worth it.

Ahh, wish it was next week already. I'm so impatient!

polo_princess

*jealous* youve moved up a box lol

Angelmouse

Funny how we wish the time away when we're pregnant isn't it.

Wow that's some job offer but I can see where you'd be reluctant, that's some serious chopping and changing of hours etc. It is a good sign though that you'd be able to get whatever you want when you're ready.

CamoQueen

19 weeks! Today is the day I have been waiting for -- THE BIG ULTRASOUND!!!! Three hours until I get to see LO again!!!!!!

I heard that the hospital I'm going to usually doesn't try and find the gender on their own, so I'm going to make sure that I push for them to look for it during the appointment. It can't be that much extra work to look for a willy or lack thereof, right? I will beat them if they don't even look for the gender.

Anyway, I have spent the past weekend wishing away the time, and now the appointment is almost there! Bean has been having a nice time kicking me these past few days, so hopefully he/she's pretty active during the ultrasound. I'm planning on eating a spicy lunch about an hour before the ultrasound, maybe that'll help! But I am still just counting down the time until I leave for the hospital! Eee!

Still, there is the fear that there could always be something wrong... I mean, it is an anamoly scan first, and a gender scan second. I guess I'm just feeling optomistic today. I really am crossing my fingers though that everything turns out fine for my LO. And that I can manage to hold on until 1 o' clock! I'll make sure to post pics and give the full scoop here after the ultrasound is done, 'cause I definitely will want to share!

CamoQueen

My little boy!!!!!

Angelmouse

YAHAHAY!!! A Little Boy!!!

Congratulations

So can we take it that everything is hunky dorey with the little man then?

Can you recognise any of his features as being inherited yet. On Charlies 20wk scan in profile you could see that he had my nose and mouth and OHs chin! He still does as well.

CamoQueen

Thanks! I would say that LO has his daddy's pouty lips, from a profile shot we got, they look quite kissable. lol

So I figure I might as well recap what went down on the big ultrasound on Monday! DH and I got there about twenty minutes before the appointment, and I had to pee BIG TIME. I mean, I had to pee the entire way there, but it was just painfully bad once we got to the hospital. Thankfully we got called back only five minutes after our scheduled appointment time, so there wasn't too much waiting to be done.

The tech who did our ultrasound was super, super nice. She was really smiley as she whisked me over to the ultrasound room. I pulled my pants down and she poured some warm (they had a gel warmer -- I was so grateful!) gel on my lower tummy. The first things she looked at were the placenta and the cervix... she took some snaps, wiped off my belly, and told me I could go relieve myself (this was so nice it was practically the highlight for me!).

So I peed (ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, relief) and went back in and got all gelled up again. Then she proceeded to take about 70 still shots of the baby's parts... the femurs, the heart, the liver, stomach, bladder, head (the circumfrence of which was bigger than the length of bean at the 10 week scan!), on and on. She said that the hospital does a more indepth scan than lots of places, so thats why it took so long. I wasn't complaining though! It was SO cool to see LO again! He looked so much bigger than before; his legs and arms were so long -- and he had bones!

She pointed out the umbilical cord and all the different parts. Then she asked if we wanted to find out what we were having, and of course we did! She looked towards the legs and stopped the screen when she found the boy parts (which didn't take long). She asked me what I thought it was and I said, "It looks like a boy..." which she confirmed. Said if it was a girl you definitely "don't want that part," lol.

We saw the heart beating and the four chambers (so neat), waited for LO to straighten out so she could get a good shot. He took his sweet time, but he finally moved. She got some good shots of LO's face -- we even caught him yawning! Aww, it was so cute! Then he stretched, scratched his face... oh, geez, it's not like it's anything that significant, but it seemed so significant to us. I just love that little boy to death. At the end she told us he weighs 11.5 ounces, and that everything looked good to her, though the doctor would still need to have a look.

So this morning I went back to the OB/Gyn for the checkup. I've gained 10.8 pounds in total so far, my blood pressure was fine, and my fundus measured on track. The midwife found the HB as soon as she put the doppler down, which was nice. Then we went over the results of the quad screen and ultrasound. The quad screen tests all came out negative! Such a load off my mind. Then she tracked down the doctor's comments on the ultrasound -- all normal with a posterior placenta!

I'm finally feeling like I can start to relax and enjoy my pregnancy. I mean, at this point I'm practically halfway through the pregnancy and the odds of something really bad happening are very, very small... and the baby looks like he's doing wonderfully. My most recent paranoia -- that I had an incompetent cervix that would painlessly dilate and make me go into premature labor -- has been calmed by the normal length cervix they found at the ultrasound. Soooo... I guess I'm just feeling really good right now! This has been such a great week!!!

polo_princess

Awww lovely piccies hun congrats on your lil boy!!

Angelmouse

Aw, mini daddies smackers, fab!

So glad you enjoyed your scan hon. Now you can chill and totally enjoy being pregnant.