Help! I need an accountability partner that is faithfully tracking everything they eat and exercise. Please friend me!

Cakes- is "fire gun" a boy or a girl. haha, what a sweety!

So, how many of you have talked with your doc about your birth plan? how many of your have a birth plan? is to too early to start saying "um btw, I don't want and epidural, I don't want the baby vaccinated...."...i'm not sure if I'll even be delivering with my current OB b/c I may be moving to CA before the baby is born. If tha is the case I'm going to a birthing center. With the prospect of a birthing center I am REALLY hoping we can move before baby is here...I don't care if we have to stop hourly to pee

Hi I'm Tiffany and I'm due April 16th, I'm a FTM and SUPER excited.

Played my baby music for the first time today and couldn't believe how much they moved around. So awesome

Hi Tiffany!

Looks like this thread has kinda died so we should try to revive it Congrats on your little bundle of joy, this is our first too! We are due the day before you

Next week we find out if it's a boy or girl. We have an OB appointment today and hubby wants to ask him if he can put in for a stat ultrasound so we can find out earlier. I just look forward to this little bugger having a name rather than being "it." I've been saying "her" and "she" a lot, I've said from the beginning i think it's a girl but i'm hoping for a boy. I loved (and sometimes hated) haveing a big bro so I want my little girl to have the same protection...plus that's less stress on hubs and I trying to protect her from the boys in the later years

We have our 20 week anatomy scan on Friday, and I am excited to find out. This is my fourth, but I still just like to know so I can shop! The sex really doesn't matter to me either way! Don't worry about having a girl/ boy first. My two oldest are girls, and my husband wouldn't have it any other way. They have him wrapped around their fingers, and it is funny to see a 6'3" 250 lb guy do whatever they want to make them happy.

I hope that you ladies are all doing well! I had my 20 week anatomy scan this morning, and we had arms, legs, fingers, toes and a penis! I am having a boy! That will give me two girls and two boys! I am happy that my son will have a partner in crime!

2 more days until we get to find out if it's a boy or girl...can't wait! Last ultrasound put as a little further along than we thought so we'll see what they say this time

Nursenikki that's so fun! Do you have a name yet?

Wicked- yay for April!

Love the name Levi! one of my best friends in college was named Levi.

As I suspected, we are having a girl! as long as the hubs doesn't get irritated with the many variations I keep coming up with for her name, she will be Zulma (Sul-ma) Eileen. Zulma means peace

My little Zulma warrior princess

Thanks! Zulma was his late mom's name, so I too am doing the family a solid haha

Sorry to hear about the complications but it sounds like you are taking them in stride and that is great! Your kids sound like fighters!

I wanted to do the gender reveal thing but I just couldn't wait!

Got my PT and specialist appointments scheduled today. The specialist won't be able to see me for 2 weeks! I just want to make sure my little one is okay and I have to wait THAT long? Geez!! I will also have to drive all the way across the city for my physical therapy appointments. Apparently there is only one PT place that sees pregnant women in the metro that takes my insurance. Bummer! Fortunately my husband will be able to take care of our son while I drive at least 45 minutes during rush hour on Friday morning for my hour long appointment. Sorry that I am just a little emotional today, but when you don't feel good I am sure I'm not the only one who hates to wait. Thanks for letting me vent!

Hi ladies! Our thread has been MIA! How are you all doing?

I can't believe the 3rd trimester starts next month!! After the holidays we're going to get rid of our official guest bedroom and work on turning it into a nursery and our office into a spare bedroom. Excited to put stuff together. I already have 10 outfits bought for the first 1-2 months.... so much fun, but sad he can't wear any of our daughters clothes that I saved.

Glad to hear that you ladies are doing well, and doublet, you are in my thoughts, I hope that everything goes well at your appt! I am also blown away at how fast time is flying by! My husband owns a deer processing business, and is insanely busy from September to February, so the nursery will be on hold until then! I will start getting nervous until it is done because we are moving all of the bedrooms, and have a ton of work to do!

So... I'm having a super sneaky ninja baby, I guess. lol

Long story short, I just found out I was pregnant about two weeks ago (when I was 20 weeks and 6 days pregnant). This is my second baby, and I had a super easy first trimester with my daughter, and I guess I must have had the same with my son (when we found out we were pregnant we also found out we were having a baby boy at the same time! lol). I was on the birth control that only gives you a period every 3 months, so I literally had no idea. Plus I was working out a lot and losing weight, and so that wasn't a tip off either.

Now that the shock has worn off, I am getting super happy and excited to meet my little boy in April! It took a couple weeks of non-stop shopping, but now I have most of the big things we will need (we had gotten rid of my daughter's baby stuff, she's almost 5 years old). I am pretty OCD, so the shopping and preparing made everything feel better. lol

I've switched my calories on MFP to account for the extra 200-300 calories that the little one needs, in addition to me at maintenance mode, but I haven't been strict about not going over. If I get to the end of the day and I feel hungry, I eat something else. No biggie.

I'm still maintaining at the weight I was when I found out (191). My weight has fluctuated a little up and down a pound, but keeps settling back to 191 every week. I hope to only gain 10-15 pounds this pregnancy (I gained 20 with my first). I never did get back down to my pre-pregnancy weight from my first (which was 170) but I know I will do better now. I am much more motivated to be healthy for my kids, my husband, and myself. I'll just kick it into high gear next summer.

I hope everyone is doing well and feeling ok. The only troubles I've had is being extra tired, some backaches, trouble getting comfortable when sleeping, lots of sneezing, and I'm starting to have to go potty more often. I definitely am starting to "show" over the past week or two, but I'm not as self-conscious about the baby belly as I was with my first.

Hi, everyone! I am just joining this group. I tried going on Babyfit when I first got prego thinking that would be better, but I missed my phone app, so I am back on MFP. I am due April 18th with a little boy, Harrison, he will be our second. I lost 70 lbs prior to getting pregnant and hope to not gain back too much of it! So far I am at 15 pounds, and my personal goal is 25 total. However, I did not work out the entire first trimester due to severe M/S and exhaustion, but with the holidays my doctor said I would likely go down a few in January because I have been way over indulging!
Anyone else finding this a difficult time of year to be prego? My first time around it was over spring/summer and that was just different. I guess being super busy with holiday and family stuff is making it go by more quickly! I just tend to not listen to my body when cleaning, shopping, baking, etc and have a few almost pass out incidents...