My belly is growing extremely fast now. It's visibly bigger every day. I am having clothes problem. My inventions so far will not work for much longer. And I don't like maternity clothing that I can find here. I will have to think of something else soon.

24th April

My first belly pictures: I am in the 18th week!

23rd April

I just called the Prenatal Diagnostic Center since I could not wait any more. It's been a month since we were given the crazy odds. It's a healthy boy! Surprise, surprise! A boy. Another boy in the family full of boys. Anyway, my boy is normal! Looking forward seeing him and getting convinced it's a boy next week.

20th April

I am till not sure whether I felt the baby moved. The movements repeated yesterday after the lunch, but with a much smaller intensity. And I didn't feel anything after the dinner.

Soon, we will receive the final results from the amnio test. I hope everything is going to be fine and looking forward knowing whether it's a boy or a girl. My feeling tells me it's a girl (would be nice as there are already too many boys in the family and around). We'll see, it's more important that the rest of the results show no abnormalities.

19th April

DID I FEEL MY BABY'S FIRST MOVES? I think I felt something yesterday. It happend after the luch and later after the dinner and lasted for some time, maybe for more than half hour. It really was like pop-corn, but I am still not sure whether it was the baby or something else. We'll see if (when) it repeats.

17th April

Still haven't felt the baby move :-(. During nights I try to relax and feel it, but as soon as I think I felt something it's gone. Last night I felt something, but the move was very high, so I guess it's not my baby's.

15th April

Last couple of days, we are doing much better, much more relaxed. I even think I felt my baby move, but I'm not sure yet whether it was the baby or my imagination or something else. My husband doesn't want to take any picture of my belly before we know for sure everything is ok with our little one. So, I guess the belly pictures will have to wait for another week or so. I am getting huge. Due to the still potential risk of m/c I am afraid to do any workout but just walking. I'll wait till the end of the month and start swimming exercises. I also need to concentrate on my work. My PhD thesis should go faster now...

12th April

Yesterday the preliminary results from the amnio came back. NORMAL (tests done for T21, T13 and T18). We still have to wait for the rest of the results.

approx 8th April

Due to very unfortunate reasons, we've been seeing our little one very often these days. The results after first trimester screening came with a very high (1:5) risk for Down syndrome. After a week, we found that out, I had an amnio test done and we are awaiting the results.

The results came as a shock. First I thought I didn't understand. We don't have anybody on either side with any problems. And I am young, well not very young, but young for such problems... Well, it seams it can happen to anybody.

START - Hi Ladies,

I am a new one here. I’ve been reading your postings for some time and found it very supporting, since I don’t have any pregnant friend.

We had luck to see our little one several times so far, in US and in The Netherlands. Also, due to the circumstances we met several practitioners. They all gave me different estimate for the due date (it has to do with whether they take into account the duration of your regular period). In one ultra sound imaging we saw our baby making a complete salto. It was really amazing.

So, good luck with your pregnancies!

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