Pregnancy Thread

Arative_sl said:

My wife was like that the 1st trimester, then she calmed down a bit once she felt him move, then it was you think everything is ok, when she hadn't felt him move in a bit, now with 20 days left, she just wants it over with.

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Yeah I'm about 17.5 weeks and I've had some flutters but no real definitive or continuous movement....I can't remember when it happened with my son; I think it was like the second week in Feb when I first felt anything so I would have been.....right around 17-18 weeks again. So I am trying (fairly successfully thus far) to be pretty chill about it and not let the paranoia creep in. I have the anatomy scan a week from this coming thurs so having an ultrasound in 11 days helps too.

I'm definitely showing more this time around - I'm sure that's partially to do with the fact that it's my second and partially due to the fact that my body is a little bit smaller than it's been in the past. The heartburn is.....I forgot to take my 150mg of zantac last night (I take it twice a day)....I woke up about 6 am and I wanted to punch someone and threw up a whole bunch of stomach acids.

Just going to finish the bottle and switch over to nexium. I'll be almost 20 weeks so whatever. I'll be on it about 10 weeks earlier than last time but again shit seems to be moving a lot faster this time in general.

Congrats Tred!!!

Our 20 week scan (we had at 19 weeks) was last fri - the Verifi test results have been sitting in our file for almost 2 months with the sex of the baby whited out in them so neither us nor our doctors knows (she likes being surprised because apparently no one waits to find out anymore)....but we almost caved at the 20 week scan. Waiting to find out is MUCH harder this time around. We'd be happy with either for different reasons but I'd slightly prefer another boy. Penises=so much easier. Vaginas scare the ever loving shit out of me. More problems with diaper rash, uti's, yeast infection, vagina can close up.....I'm like dude once the circumcision healed it was wipe any direction you want for messes. But that's not the reason really - we'd just love another little boy for our kid to play with. The clothing reuse factor is also awesome. And we really like our boy name. But we like our girl name too - after my grandmother (I am named after my mom's grandmother) so family tradition and all that. Plus glitter and sparkles are fun. So happy with either - guess we will find out in March.

Can't believe as of Halloween we are halfway done. Shit is flying by. I caved early on the Nexium and am on that now - fuck I forgot how much better that stuff is than zantac. Also in re kicks and movement; my gut instinct was right. I was feeling less movement this time around and a bit later. 20 week scan showed anterior placenta. So longer time before I can really feel daily movement to get rid of that nagging 'is everything ok' voice ahead for me. Can't change it. Funnily enough this baby, at least for ultrasounds, is a shitton more active than my son was in utero. And I feel it less. (A lot less). Other than that everything looks great.

We've done absolutely nothing to our shit in order for the nursery. Waiting until after Xmas.