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Congrats on the healthy little guy @dragonfly23

Thank you everyone. I just wish he cooperated with me as I really hope they will give me one last ultrasound to confirm for sure I am indeed having a little boy. It is just so hard to believe. I love him already and I haven't even met him. I have my doctor's appointment Monday morning so I will ask the doctor just to see. I forgot to ask the tech something but I am sure she would have told me otherwise. So I hope it will be in the report.

Oh my... I've been MIA for a bit but I'm still here and desperately need to catch up on all these pages!

@dragonfly23 I see something about a little boy?! Yaaaaay!!

13 week appointment tomorrow for me and hoping to hear Jelly Bean's heartbeat for the first time since seeing it at 9 weeks. Can't wait!

Fabulous news Dragonfly23 you'll love having a little boy, my boy is amazing such a snuggly mummies boy even at 4 :) his sister is far more independent always has been.
Good luck tomorrow sheriskers :) how exciting! Hope all goes well.

My next appointment isn't until next Friday where they check the heartbeat and urinalysis and bp I'll be 16+3 by then. So hopefully our little poppet won't be hiding like my son was at my 16 week appointment, they sent me for an emergency ultrasound, he was fine but it was so so scary. Luckily I have my own doppler and I can always find poppet so I'm hoping the midwife can too, although he/she is getting very very active, they kept moving last time I checked so quickly I'd hear 5seconds and have to start searching again I got them in the end and we got 161bpm hehe, which is making me think maybe girl as I've never had a bpm less than 150 but it's anyone's guess, only 25 weeks to go xxx

Finding out the gender makes it all so much more real!!! So exciting.

Welcome back @SheRiskers good luck at your appointment and cheers to getting into the 2nd Tri!

Just got back! Heart rate between 150 & 160 she said!! Oh goodness I loved hearing it and knowing he/she's still alive and well in there! The midwife felt for my uterus and it's waaay above my public bone already. No wonder I look so pregnant and don't actually have a bump. Lol Your body really does just "assume position" the 2nd+ go around. My next appointment will be July 2 and it's the gender scan! Eeeeee!

@SheRiskers. I'm glad the appointment went well and you heard the heartbeat. I know tge gender scan is ways away but it will be here before you know it. I think that the baby moved up so quickly that it will be a girl. Is your stomach more round or oval? I remember with my daughter that I couldn't lie on my stomach as it was awkard and my belly was round. This time, my belly is more oval shaped.

Eeek congratulations Kelliria how exciting and yes it's amazing how we have all gone from those 2 little lines, to seeing the babies on the screen, hearing the heartbeats, finding out sex etc :) xxx

Sheriskers, i am glad you got to hear the heartbeat and everything is good. Hopefully, you get to gind out next time you get a u/s!

Kelliria - CONGRATS!! I'm so excited for you! I want a girl badly. Have a house full of boys right now :) I get my blood taken next week for my panorama test (same genetic test, different brand) and we've chosen to find out gender this time too. I should know by my 12 wk apt on June 21.

Dragonfly23 - I hope that round vs. oval belly thing is real, because I'm totally round so far, and showing way more than I did with my son. I'm glad though - I want a big 8lber. Oscar was only 4lbs, 14oz full term because my placenta sucked and I didn't eat enough. I actually lost 10 lbs and I'm not an overally chubby woman. My goal is to grow a big baby this time!! So Fat it is.

SheRiskers - Congrats on a wonderful 13 wk apt! So excited for you.

AFM - I told my supervisor today. I needed to this early because right now, we're planning for proposals that will come out when I'm on maternity leave and they need to know I won't be available. Plus, I'm showing and it's getting harder to hide.

She was supportive, but she's leaving in two weeks for another position, so now in about 30 minutes, I have to go tell the big boss who will be my new supervisor. Hopefully she's as supportive. I asked in an email for 15 minutes of her time today and I think she thinks I'm going to quit lol. (I'm totally not. I love my job.) Anyway, I have an office job with flexibility to work from home if doc says I have to, so it should be fine. I'm still nervous though because it's a primarily male environment (although the boss is a woman) and not sure how my blue collar co-worker guys are going to handle it. It takes a lot to get any respect here and I was just starting to earn it.