JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2014 DUE DATE CLUB- THREAD #2

[Adia]

Girls play much more quietly. Like they paint their nails or do arts and crafts or sit with barbies. I need a child that just sits down!!! I just need peace and quiet in my life!!
The fact is, every kid is different. Some people have tough girls with major attitude, some have quiet angelic girls. Some (like me) have wild and crazy boys that drive them nuts, and some boys are more mellow. I don't think you can totally generalize and I hate when people act like because we don't have a dd we don't know. I feel like if you dont have a ds you have no clue what us boy mom's go though!
(please don't take offense to any of this girl mom's)

Sorry for intruding but my DDs are so loud and wild we taught them sign language to use at the dinner table just to cut down on the noise and screaming...it didn't work.
They have mellowed out a lot as they have gotten older but they are still very loud, wild, and I feel like a referee all day when they are all home. They had a snow day last Friday, I had hoped to get a lot of homework done. I didn't get one lick of homework done and my feet were killing me at the end of the day from trying to keep up with my kids and all their energy.

[from2to3]

Good luck Aidansmum! Hope you get results quickly!

Snipsnsnails - how terrible! Be over-the-moon excited for your little girl!! You so deserve to be! Every child is different, and there's more reasons to wanting a certain gender than just a stereotypical temperament. I myself have very active boys, and they are LOUD. Lol they can mimic a loud semi or derby car to the tee! But they have just enough sweetness and goodness in them to keep me from completely losing it (sometimes they make me feel bipolar but ya know!), and I love them to pieces! I would still love to experience that little girl though. I'm more worried about having 3 kids in general and being outnumbered now!!

I hate symptoms! They can be so deceiving. Just wish symptoms were all the same. I got a little hopeful though when I read about the headaches lol! Now that I feel a little bit more human and can actually get SOMETHING done in a day, I have been getting terrible pounding headaches! I'm sure it's just beginning of a cold and congestion or something as there is a lot of crud going around, but hearing your stories got me a little excited I've had a lot of similar symptoms and some very different ones. The ultrasound we got of this one looks similar in my opinion to my DS2's 12 week ultrasound. I really need to prepare myself more that this could be a boy....but for some reason my head just won't do it!! Hope I'm not going to be very disappointed!

Usually we tell people at the end of the first trimester but we can't decided what to do now. I have one friend that knows because she guessed it. Part of me just wants to tell people, but another part wants to wait until we know what we are having. Not sure if we could pull that off though, that's a long time and I have a feeling I'm going to start showing a lot sooner this time. We finally told the kids so it might not be up to us when everyone else finds out

[nuthinbutpink]

Jen, how many weeks were you with the test? Have you had visual confirmation that it is a boy? Harmony didn't orginally test for gender. They were the last of the tests to add gender in and since it is free floating "Y" they are looking for, I just wonder how reliable it is since you have had "Y" free floating DNA in you before.

I am not trying to get your hopes up. You have been through enough. It is just a question of accuracy.

[menlc611]

It's funny how different KIDS are, not just boys/girls! I have 3 boys who are mellow, quiet kids who occupy themselves very well. On days off school I hardly know they are here! Of course they can get rowdy at times but one "knock it off" and it's over! My neighbor has 3 girls (same ages as my boys) and I literally can't stand to be in her house more than an hour because her kids are so loud and over the top, I can't deal with it!! I agree that people will always have something to say. I told a friend it's a girl and her response was "well you can be done now!" And yeah, it bothers me that she thought just because it's a girl, we're done. I said well we were going to be done either way! People just feel the need to put their 2 cents in!!!

[aidansmum]

I had my test done in Sydney and received the results exactly 14 days from when I had the test and not 14 working days. Fingers crossed for you ... My heart stopped beating and I think I almost started hypo ventilating when I saw I missed that call. Good luck.

Thanks for giving me hope mum3blue. Feel less stressed out now.

[aidansmum]

I woke up with a sense of doom. I just know I'll have another boy. I just have this feeling that I should not keep my hopes us and I'm inclined to listen to my inner voice.
I hope the Harmony results are wrong for Jen but please let mine be correct, it would be very hard dealing with a bad result. The woman who did my test said to me Harmony is more accurate than ultrasound scans for gender, but I did hear before that it can pick up Y's in the blood from previous children. The things we do to ourselves!

[menlc611]

I woke up with a sense of doom. I just know I'll have another boy. I just have this feeling that I should not keep my hopes us and I'm inclined to listen to my inner voice.
I hope the Harmony results are wrong for Jen but please let mine be correct, it would be very hard dealing with a bad result. The woman who did my test said to me Harmony is more accurate than ultrasound scans for gender, but I did hear before that it can pick up Y's in the blood from previous children. The things we do to ourselves!

I know it's hard waiting, your brain is constantly running!! Just try and take a deep breath and not stress until you get the results! (Whaaaat?! Easier said than done, I know!!!!!!! lol) I'm hoping you can find some peace until you get the results and I'm sending loads of pink dust your way!!!

[menlc611]

Oops double post

[Mumto3boys]

Now that I did the blood test I wish I hadn't cause I am now wondering did I contaminate the blood? did my previous 3 boys still have DNA in me which is known to stay in you for decades - its just a real mind f**k excuse my language!! it has just got me sooooooo down!...

I woke up with a sense of doom. I just know I'll have another boy. I just have this feeling that I should not keep my hopes us and I'm inclined to listen to my inner voice.
I hope the Harmony results are wrong for Jen but please let mine be correct, it would be very hard dealing with a bad result. The woman who did my test said to me Harmony is more accurate than ultrasound scans for gender, but I did hear before that it can pick up Y's in the blood from previous children. The things we do to ourselves!

[Mum3blue]

Now that I did the blood test I wish I hadn't cause I am now wondering did I contaminate the blood? did my previous 3 boys still have DNA in me which is known to stay in you for decades - its just a real mind f**k excuse my language!! it has just got me sooooooo down!...

It definitely is a stressful time doing the test and reading about how Y stays in your blood, it has given me the tiniest element of false hope. I'm counting down to my visual confirmation - no doubt he will be boy!!! I still have the tiniest glimmer of hope, but it's not realistic as I have already started buying boy things and as much as this pregnancy and cravings etc are different all those theories have been dispelled as well :-). Here's hoping for a healthy baby at the ultrasound.