nearlyalegume
April 16th, 2014, 09:30 PM
I've been here on and off for the past four years. DH and I have two DSs, now aged 3.5 and 1.5... and we're expecting our third and last baby (our little 'oops') in November.
I'm trying very very hard not to hope that this might be a girl. I'd desperately love to have a girl, I'm not going to deny it, although I have to be careful who I say that to because some people get on their sanctimonious high horse and tell me I'm a terrible person for not being grateful that my babies are healthy (of course I'm bloody grateful that they're healthy, but healthy and male/female are actually mutually exclusive things!)... I must say that I've noticed that such people tend to be ones who have at least one of each, as well, so they have no idea even if they claim to 'understand'. But I digress.
Our ultrasound is in six days, and I'll be 12w6d at the time. I'm simultaneously unable to wait and dreading it... because I just want to know, but at the same time, once that bubble is burst and I know it's DS3, you can't un-burst the bubble. And this is 1000% my last baby.
But then, it's different this time. I'm sicker this time, and still sick at 12 weeks - I was feeling much better by now with both previous pregnancies. I didn't get a back full of acne this time (just my face and (in the past three days) my chest! I look a fright!) I'm hippier and poochier this time (although that might just be a third baby thing). My milk hasn't dried up yet, and it had by this stage when I was pregnant with DS2. I've been craving savouries instead of sweet things like the last two times. Every fibre of my being is telling me that this one is a girl, and I'm finding it really hard to convince myself that it's not, it's all a big ruse to make me cry and sook when it does turn out to be another boy. TELL ME IT'S A BOY. Bring me back down to reality! Where are all the boy icons? Hang on... take this, brain... :DS::babym::bluesperm::boybear2::bluecheer::xy::bi gboy::BabyBoy:
And another one for good measure, because I find this one amusing: :bluesperm:
I'm trying very very hard not to hope that this might be a girl. I'd desperately love to have a girl, I'm not going to deny it, although I have to be careful who I say that to because some people get on their sanctimonious high horse and tell me I'm a terrible person for not being grateful that my babies are healthy (of course I'm bloody grateful that they're healthy, but healthy and male/female are actually mutually exclusive things!)... I must say that I've noticed that such people tend to be ones who have at least one of each, as well, so they have no idea even if they claim to 'understand'. But I digress.
Our ultrasound is in six days, and I'll be 12w6d at the time. I'm simultaneously unable to wait and dreading it... because I just want to know, but at the same time, once that bubble is burst and I know it's DS3, you can't un-burst the bubble. And this is 1000% my last baby.
But then, it's different this time. I'm sicker this time, and still sick at 12 weeks - I was feeling much better by now with both previous pregnancies. I didn't get a back full of acne this time (just my face and (in the past three days) my chest! I look a fright!) I'm hippier and poochier this time (although that might just be a third baby thing). My milk hasn't dried up yet, and it had by this stage when I was pregnant with DS2. I've been craving savouries instead of sweet things like the last two times. Every fibre of my being is telling me that this one is a girl, and I'm finding it really hard to convince myself that it's not, it's all a big ruse to make me cry and sook when it does turn out to be another boy. TELL ME IT'S A BOY. Bring me back down to reality! Where are all the boy icons? Hang on... take this, brain... :DS::babym::bluesperm::boybear2::bluecheer::xy::bi gboy::BabyBoy:
And another one for good measure, because I find this one amusing: :bluesperm: