New "Mom's to Be" Thread!

[tink2020]

Other than listening with the doppler, my doc never touches my belly. Let alone palpitate my uterus. Huh ?

Hmm. They can do it very quickly. They don't touch your belly at all? Mine would have a tech/aide use the doppler prior to coming in, but then would just press really quickly to see where things were falling. If they are the one doing the doppler and touching you even that little, I bet they know how things are progressing. Maybe they just aren't telling you, since it's not that crucial? It wouldn't hurt to ask next time! Really, from what I understand, how you are measuring in general is only used for very vague guidelines. As long as you are growing with each visit, I don't know that the actual measurement ever really matters! It fluctuates all the time anyway! :

 

[tink2020]

I'm with the other ladies...i have not been measured by belly...only by weight, blood pressure and trying to hear the heartbeat. I am pretty sure I am feeling movement so I doubt anything would be wrong...but I kinda want baby to not obey and turn on the side where they cannot hear heartbeat. I want an ultrasound bad...I just want to see baby or babies if there should be.

I can understand that! It is nerve-wracking waiting for that ultrasound!

 

[tink2020]

kappyfinn ….. due May 5 ….. It’s a girl!
Tricia1972 ….. due May 6 ….. It’s a boy!
Freyja ….. due May 10 ….. It’s a boy!
lilianddomsmom ….. due May 16 ….. It’s a boy!
weluvdisney ..... due May 16 ..... It's a boy!
SummerMomof3 ….. due June 11 ….. It’s a girl!
tink2020 ….. due July 11 (c/s June 16) …... It’s a girl! AND It’s a girl!
Tasha+Scott ….. due June 27 (c/s June 18) ….. It’s a boy!
left210 ….. due June ? ….. It’s a surprise!
October Beauty ….. due July 1 ….. It’s a boy!
malibuconlee ….. due July 13 ….. It’s a girl!
DznyLvr2005 ….. due July 26 ….. It’s a girl!
noodle7729 ….. due August ? ….. It’s a surprise!
Mickey Fliers ….. due September 3 ….. It’s a girl!
MomNeedsVacay ….. due September 8 ….. It’s a surprise!
DVCsince02 ….. due September 17 ….. It’s a surprise!
HelenePA ….. due October 7 ….. It’s a surprise!
k_reile ... due October 9 ... It's a surprise!
shmoogrrrl ….. due October 18 ….. It’s a surprise!
kitten818 ….. due October 22 ….. It’s a surprise!
starwatcher ….. Due October 26 ….. It’s a surprise!
basketrn …..
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[tink2020]

I wanted to let you all know, if anyone is interested, that I have finally updated our blog (in my signature) to include shower pictures, nursery pictures, 3D ultrasound pictures, etc.

 

[tink2020]

And just like that, I'm out of work and on bedrest. It's not strict, I'm allowed being up in small spurts for a couple hours each day, but I'm at home for the most part and off of my feet 90% of the time. And again, not working. For a girl who counted down to her last day for the last 8 weeks, I certainly wasn't ready for that! In fact, despite my letter saying "should cease working effective 04/16/08", I'm going in tomorrow for a few hours. I need to, just for me. I had JUST made a list today to start paring down over the next 2 weeks. While I know I won't be able to get any of it done in the few hours I'll be there tomorrow, I will feel better knowing I at least was able to hand it off to someone and explain where things are. I feel bad for my regional manager, too, who will likely be on the first plane to Cincinnati tomorrow since there is nobody else prepared just yet. *sigh* It really just boils down to my own emotional coping. If you knew me in real life, you would know I am NOT the type that likes being told I can't do something, or need to rest. Maybe I'm in denial, but I'm not even all that worried about the babies coming just yet. My OB seems to think I should be here for several more weeks, just that I need to stop working and lie around in order to accomplish that. I mostly just wanted a few weeks to do things on my own terms!

Please send a few good thoughts my way tomorrow at 1, if you can. I have a ******l u/s to see my cervical length (at this point, it feels closed but very thin, just in the last week). If it is markedly short or funneling, it's off to Hotel Hospital until these babies make their appearance. If I make it past that hurdle and get to stay home for a while longer, I think I will be much better and will be able to adjust to the idea of bedrest HERE, considering it's much better than the hospital!

In other (positive) news, the babies are continuing to grow (2.25lb and 2.5lbs the other day, about the 25th and 40th percentiles). I didn't gain any weight, but I didn't lose this week -- so I'm heading in the right direction and my BP is still low. I'm measuring 38 weeks (which is likely why they are thinking my uterus is ready to kick these babies out!), so things are progressing nicely. Just hopefully not for at least a few more weeks!

 

[Villain-lover]

oooh Tink, I will be thinking about you! Keep them girlies growin' as great as you have so far! Oh, and get lots of trash magazines to read..you will need them!!!


Sam & Zoe are doing great..we are rolling over and sleeping through the nigt now!!! Whoot!

 

[tink2020]

oooh Tink, I will be thinking about you! Keep them girlies growin' as great as you have so far! Oh, and get lots of trash magazines to read..you will need them!!!


Sam & Zoe are doing great..we are rolling over and sleeping through the nigt now!!! Whoot!

Thanks! I love your avatar (it might not be new, but I just turned them back on). Your two are growing so much!

 

[DVCsince02]

Just checking in to see how everybody is doing.......

 

[helenabear]

Tink, my thoughts are with you. Just hang in there and I am sure all will be fine! Sounds like your babies are growing well especially considering they are twins

As for doc appts. Mine didn't do a lot of touching of the uterus until I was further along. She would gently touch, but not a lot. I know she could feel the size of it if she wanted to. Most of the appt was get weighed, blood pressure, urine test (for proteins, keytones, blood etc in urine), listen to the baby heart beat and then talk about how the pregnancy was going. If we couldn't find the heart beat on the doppler, we would do an ultrasound. Though that never happened though. She was just about to do an ultrasound on me at 13 weeks, but then she found the heart beat. Obviously a lot harder in the beginning.
Standard also is to do an ultrasound at 8-12 weeks to make sure all is developing properly and try to get a better idea of DD. Then a 2nd ultrasound is done at around 20 weeks for the Level II ultrasound (check to make sure there are no defects that they can see). If you have other issues you will get more depending on what the issues are. I had four total. One because I was paranoid and it was early in the pregnancy, the normal early ultrasound, the normal level II and then I had a fourth one at 25 weeks since my baby wasn't cooperating and we couldn't see the sex. She marked that one as "needed to get clear pictures of heart since others were a little 'blurry'" I love my doc.
You go about evern 5-6 weeks in the beginning with a blood test and a visit with the NP to answer all early pregnancy questions at about 6 weeks. At around 28 weeks you go every 2-3 and then at 36 you go weekly. Around then they do cervical checks as well.

Just thought I'd share in case anyone was curious what others did through out the whole pregnancy.

 

[candeeapril]

I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Aiden's 2 months old already and at his well check he was 14lbs 12 oz and 25" long. Yikes. this boy doesn't miss a meal hope your doing ok tink..

 

[tink2020]

I'm here, at home. After coming to the realization that I'm likely going to be hospitalized for bedrest at some point, sooner or later, I'm less annoyed with bedrest here than I would have been otherwise. I'm still me, though, which means I get pretty antsy just sitting around all day!

At my OB office, you get one ultrasound with a singleton, at 20ish weeks (unless, of course, you have complications). None early unless you opt for a NT test, none later. I believe with one baby, the appointment schedule is every 4 weeks until 28 weeks, every 2 weeks from then until 34 weeks, then weekly until delivery. At each of those early appointments we did belly touching/measuring, heartbeat (just with a tech, not the MD), blood pressure, urine samples and about a 2 minute conversation. Even as an pediatric RN, in a high risk pregnancy, I found prenatal care pretty pointless for a large chunk of this pregnancy

For this twin pregnancy, I am either a) spoiled or b) extra-bothered, depending on how you look at it! I have been going to the OB bi-weekly since about 20 weeks, and weekly since 25 weeks -- including internal cervical checks. That's got to be the worst part of it, knowing that I should not have had internal exams for so much longer! As for ultrasounds, though, I have definitely been spoiled. Every time we go I wonder how I'll make it through a subsequent singleton pregnancy if we are so blessed. We had quick ultrasounds at 6 and 8 weeks at the RE clinic. Then at 17 weeks we paid for one out of pocket. We have had Level IIs at 20, 24 and 28 weeks, and will continue to do so every 4 weeks until delivery. We paid for a 3D ultrasound at about 26 weeks out of pocket. We will have quick growth check scans every 2 weeks from 30 weeks on, and - just for fun (because these certainly aren't anything exciting) - now TVUs weekly since my cervix and uterus think their job is done.

While going through this pregnancy, it has been incredibly frustrating at times to see how other practices handle things (when I felt like I was getting neglected! ). Now though, that I feel like I'm getting plenty of monitoring, it is definitely interesting to see how different people's pregnancies are handled.

 

[LittleBlue22]

Have a great weekend moms!

 

[starwatcher]

i have an ultrasound on the 27 of may will be able to tell what we will be having then

 

[tink2020]

Have a great weekend moms!

You, too! Is this your first time posting to this thread?

i have an ultrasound on the 27 of may will be able to tell what we will be having then

How exciting!

 

[Freyja]

Can´t believe how soon our little guy will join us. I´ve been having a lot of Braxton Hicks lately and know it ´won´t be long. My guess is 18 days from now

 

[tink2020]

Can´t believe how soon our little guy will join us. I´ve been having a lot of Braxton Hicks lately and know it ´won´t be long. My guess is 18 days from now

How exciting!

Have your other children come early at all? I hope your last couple of weeks go quickly and smoothly!

 

[Freyja]

How exciting!

Have your other children come early at all? I hope your last couple of weeks go quickly and smoothly!

Last time I was induced at 39 weeks. Baby before that came on the exact due date.

 

[tink2020]

Last time I was induced at 39 weeks. Baby before that came on the exact due date.

Then I think you'll go in about 14 days!

 

[LittleBlue22]

You, too! Is this your first time posting to this thread?



How exciting!

No, I boldly stated before my son was born last year (on the previous Moms to be thread) that I would not frequent this thread again. Look where I am now. Its o.k. to laugh, really. This will be baby #5 for us.

My lower belly is starting to pouch out now and my regular pants aren't staying on my waist very well.

Take it easy moms and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

 

[tink2020]

No, I boldly stated before my son was born last year (on the previous Moms to be thread) that I would not frequent this thread again. Look where I am now. Its o.k. to laugh, really. This will be baby #5 for us.

My lower belly is starting to pouch out now and my regular pants aren't staying on my waist very well.

Take it easy moms and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Well, congratulations - expected or not! When are you due? Do you have boys, girls or both already?