New pregnancy after Nov 2011 stillbirth

Wow Joanna, I too am between brisbane and the sunshine coast:) Wishing you all the VERY best luck with your little one:)

 shell81 talkabout a small world !

Thanks so much for your wishes , we'll definitely need them before the 12 week scan until we know something for sure 

Congratulations Joanna! I'm so happy for you, best of luck for a happy & healthy 9 months xx

Congrats hunny...wishing you all the best with your pregnancy :-) xxx

Thanks Proud-Mummy26 and mama-january2011, it makes me feel so good to hear all the good wishes. Now here's to hoping bub is nice and healthy, and I wonder if bean will be a girl, it will be our 5th attempt at a girl, so I'm very much not expecting a girl at this point! xxox

I will cross my fingers for you hun...lots of positive healthy vibes and fx you get your princess :-) I'm hoping for a boy this time lol but like you say, as long as baby is healthy, that's the important thing :-) xxxxx

Hi Joanne! I wish u all the very best for your pregnancy.. I too am pregnant after a stillbirth of a little girl at 24weeks..very scared but happy and just hoping for a healthy boy/girl ! Find out sunday :) x

kaylijane:

Hi Joanne! I wish u all the very best for your pregnancy.. I too am pregnant after a stillbirth of a little girl at 24weeks..very scared but happy and just hoping for a healthy boy/girl ! Find out sunday :) x

Hi kaylijane! I'm so sorry for the loss of your little girl, was she your first? I can't imagine how much worse it would be for parents whose loss is their first- one of the few things that got me through our loss was just staring at our children all day and being so happy to just sit and watch them be happy. What are you finding out on Sunday, do you have an ultrasound? My thoughts will be with you, I truly believe the universe only gives us things that we can handle, we've been through all the ugliness now, we deserve the good things now xxo

No she was my 2nd baby, I have a healthy little 3 year old Son.. I agree without him I couldn't have coped he has made it all possible, and his dad. I find out the gender on sunday I booked a private scan because the hospital will only give me growth scans from 20 weeks so I need some reassurance baby is OK.x

I definitely understand that, make sure you ask for whatever you need if it's going to make you feel more comfortable, my problem is going to be speaking up- luckily I get along really well with the specialist who diagnosed the Triploidy last time, so I think I'll feel pretty comfortable with asking him for more scans, I may not even get a referral from my obstetrician, I can imagine I may be just turning up to the specialist at random times when nerves are frayed! Let me know how your scan goes :)

Well this has just been a bad week all round. Our pup passed away early this morning at the vet, he's a Labrador and got a paralysis tick a few days ago- as soon as we noticed he was laying down constantly, we rushed him to the vet and they got oxygen onto him and sprayed him with an anti-venom and it looked like he could pick up yesterday afternoon, and the vet checked him at 3 am this morning and his breathing was slow, but stable and ok, and they think around 5 am he passed away :( And his loss has brought back all of the pain of losing our little one last year, and that in turn has made me even more paranoid about this pregnancy. I've been getting cramps and bad headaches but I think it's stress related, so I'm trying to lay down and sleep as much as I can. I just can't have anything going wrong in this pregnancy, I hate it because I feel so selfish, but I'm so worried Tomorrow's a new day...

I'm so sorry about your pup hun that's terrible :( as for your pregnancy I have read all the post on your thread and ever since your loss of your baby I have kept you and you family in my prayer and I will continue to do that til you have your healthy little one in your arms.. wishing you a H&H 9 months hun

Thankyou very much xo

Joanna I'm so glad to see you're pregnant again. I have not been on since your stillbirth last year, gender predicting was a kind of fun game to me then, but when you lost your little one, I could not bear to come back until now. To read this makes me happy. You must be close to delivering now, I hope all is well with you and your family. Tricia.

Hi Joanna! I watched your you tube video from this past spring from your thread on your other thread about this new pregnancy. I thought I saw girl parts several times. At 12 1/2 weeks the clitoris can imitate a penis and that might be one of the things that affected people's view. I saw "stacks of pancakes" at 10s, 55s and at 4:01, it looked like nothing between legs and at 1: 09 the top leg was not in picture, bottom leg was so legs were opened and it was pretty flat right "there". I can see where the confusion was at 11 seconds, but since that was the only time it looked like a penis might be there, I'm saying I think it's a girl. I do keepsake ultrasounds but am only an RN, not a licenced sonographer as these are basically for keepsake photographs and gender determinations ,AFTER they have already had at least 1 diagnostic ultrasound at the hospital or DR.s office. We do not do early ultrasounds at the clinic I work for because of this confusion and to deter people from coming in for gender determination in order to seek termination due to undesired gender. (Apparantly some people do that!) I have done a few early ultrasounds but only for a family member, and a couple who had early ultrasounds at their Dr's offices, and I only gave 70% accuracy to those. One was wrong, but this girl found her "boy" was actually a girl at 22 weeks, and was very understanding that at 13 weeks, girls can look like boys, even her Dr backed us up that it's a close call at that time. Reading your other locked thread, I would say that your sonographer is probably right. I would guess at this 12 week video that it's a girl, but only by 70 percent or so. If he still thought it was a girl at your second one, well I don't see why people are arguing with you or him! It's most likely a girl. I wish you had pictures of that one, but if he thought girl twice, it must be at least 95% accurate! Right? I mean if she's a girl, that nub would be much less elongated by 18 or 19 weeks..or however far along you were at the repeat. Please let us know the answer after you deliver, I really want to know! Congratulations on your healthy baby again.