No apologies needed. We’ve all been there…
So happy to read your good news! Button-nosed Jedi. How cute!
Thanks for the update! Good news!
Re button nose, I wouldn’t entirely take the tech’s word on that, lol. I have a bump on my nose, which I love, and I’m happy to see my D has the same bump. She was super round and pudgy as a baby though, and her button nose is long gone.
All babies have little tiny button noses. Even those who grow up to have big honkers. Wait and see.
Very happy about the great news!! Hope that you can get some rest this week.
@veryhappy I’ve seen both mine and my sister’s newborn pictures. You could see from day one that we both very much had our father’s big, straight nose. Trust me when I say that people in my family do not have button noses lol. None of us have that little upturned nose at birth.
The tech just said the baby would be born with that nose, not that it would stay indefinitely ?
Huh. Both my babies had tiny noses and the cutest tiny nostrils that were hell to take care of when they got a cold. Now, their noses – ummmm – take after their dad’s. Let’s leave it at that. 
I’m pretty sure I felt the baby for the first time today. ?Although after the last scan, I’m a little afraid to start feeling it consistently. They never stop moving!
I also showed my grandma the 3D picture of the baby and she started crying. (This is not an emotional woman.) Because of long-standing family rifts, I’m the first of her grandchildren to share my pregnancy with her (and I’ll be having the 7th great-grandchild). It was unexpected but emotional.
Wow! Such great news. And very touching to share with your grandma
Many blessings to you and your family this Thanksgiving week, Romani! I haven’t been commenting, but have been following along with delight at every happy development. I remember your lovely wedding photos. It seems like yesterday!
How wonderful to come on and read your news, @romanigypsyeyes! So much to be thankful for. And how endearing with your grandmother…enjoy this time!
I remember my first ultrasound with our twins. I had assumed they’d be small and quiet, but they were big and moving like crazy, and one was kicking the other one in the head!
Just the first of many parental lessons in how not to presume things about your kids.
Today marks the halfway point. I’m 20 weeks.
Heart still looks good. I figured out what they’re testing for - PR intervals. I know what they are now but had never heard of them before last week. Kiddo was asleep this morning for the ultrasound so I was in and out in less than 10 minutes lol. Kid is already on my sleep schedule - confused as to why we’re awake before noon.
I’m putting together my registry, baby shower list, and getting the room ready. Everything is starting to feel scarily real.
So happy for you!
Sounds wonderful!
Occasional update:
-22 weeks. Baby looks good. 1 lb, 2 oz. Most measurements in the 65-75th percentile.
-Got sent to the ER (and then L&D - labor and delivery) yesterday to rule out a blood clot so that was fun. The L&D place is where I’ll be giving birth and the staff was fantastic so there’s that at least.
—Ended up being something wrong with my nerves but the pain is so bad I can barely walk. Follow-up tests and appts this week. But the pregnancy is fine and that’s really all I care about.
-Heart still looks good. I’m mostly out of the woods with the heart issues but we’ll still be getting weekly ultrasound for several weeks.
-Still haven’t felt the baby move as far as I know. A few times I thought I might’ve but I’m not sure.
-Finally caved and bought maternity clothes on Black Friday. It was a great decision!
Can I share my first-move story? Dh and I had gone to the dollar movie to see “City Slickers.” I think it was being really still that made the difference. I kind of gasped and turned to dh to tell him the baby was moving, and I guess someone heard me whisper and then everyone in our row and ahead and behind us started buzzing with excitement for us. These were strangers. It was so sweet, and I’ll never forget it. Instead of being mad that their movie was being disrupted people were anxious to share in our joy. 
@romanigypsyeyes – you must be approaching 24 weeks now, the threshold of viability! I was so happy when we reached that point in DW’s PG that I brought home two dozen roses to decorate our bedroom (DW had been on bedrest at home for seven weeks by then).
The probability of success jumps every week from now through, say, 30 weeks when it becomes a sure thing.
@droppedit 24 weeks on Monday 
I’ve been feeling baby for about a week now (longer now that I know what it actually feels like). The first time I realized it was real was when I was laying in a bath and actually saw my stomach MOVE from the little kicks/hits/whatever they’re doing.
Mr R was able to feel it for the first time yesterday. Little bugger rarely stops moving but you can only occasionally feel it on the outside.
I finally got my registry up and running and baby shower invites are done and going out. Everything is starting to feel real lol.
They finally diagnosed the pain as Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction and I have a pretty severe case. Standing up is painful. Trying to stand get myself dressed or go up or down stairs feels downright impossible. I’ll be going to my MFM on Monday to see what their rec is but it’s probably going to be PT that probably won’t work. Good news is - it goes away after birth usually.
I had that or something similar with my daughter. At the time they called it a “split symphysis” but from Googling I think that falls within the SPD you have. Also, back in the stoneage they gave me tylenol with codeine and said they were sure it wouldn’ harm the baby… but I do not know if it would be within the standard of care now. (My DD was born in 1988). I’ve never been one to take pain meds unnecessarily, but it was pretty hard for me to sleep without it. For me, it actually was more uncomfortable to lie down – I’d wake up in the morning and the pain would be terrible, and then after I moved around some it eased up. Naturally the next thing that happened was I started showing signs of premature labor at around 30 weeks or so and got ordered on complete bedrest; to prevent dilation they prescribed something or other that made me feel really antsy and jittery. So there I was with the constant pain, worsened by being confined to bed, and totally unable to sleep or get comfortable because of the labor-preventing drug. At the time, my son was 4 years old so my mother-in-law and FIL came to stay in the living room of our 2 bedroom apartment to help. And yes, it was a help and very kind of them, but it also was one more thing that added to my overall misery.
And yet I survived. 
I ended up carrying DD to term essentially - I think she was born a week ahead of her due date.
Just for some reassurance, I don’t remember the pubic pain as being excruciating – just pretty constant and unrelenting. My care team assured me that it would all heal on its own post-partum. I was skeptical, but they were right - it was pretty much back to normal after 3 or 4 weeks. And my actual birth was quite fast and easy – maybe I had become inured to pain by then or maybe my pubic bones rearranging themselves made for an easier passageway for the baby’s exit.