Jark, I'm so sorry. :( Take the time you need. That would be so hard and I can understand why you're feeling the way you are. :( Hang in there, lovely.
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Jark, I'm so sorry. :( Take the time you need. That would be so hard and I can understand why you're feeling the way you are. :( Hang in there, lovely.
Jark, I'm so sorry. :( We're here when you're ready (and always if you need us).
A little less than 2 hours to go. I have access on my phone so I'll post as soon as I'm out.
Jark, I am so sorry. I hate that it was probably me who sent you downward again :( I do understand why you feel the way you do. It must be so hard to have that feeling of loss compounded with the GD. I will send some good thoughts your way for peace and healing, for both sad events in your life this year. I hope you do come back when you feel better. Much love to you. Please take care of yourself!
Good luck shell! I hope I'll see the update before I leave today. I'll think pink for ya!
One hour! Right?
stalking....................................
It's a boy. He was face down and shy so I didn't get many pics. And he kept his legs together until the end and kept us guessing for 20 minutes.
Big hugs Shell, congrats on your baby boy. Were they definitely sure?
How are you feeling? xxxx
(((hugs))) Jark, take all the time you need, wishing you peace and healing.
Shell~ Congrats on your little boy! xxx
Sending you a big hug Jark, I understand how you feel and stepping back for a while sounds like a good plan. I'm so envious of everyone that has heard girl, but I'm also genuinely happy for everyone as I know first hand what it means to desire a certain gender.Quote:
Originally Posted by jark22
I've been having quite vivid dreams about my dad that have been really strange and I wake up and remember all over again that he isn't here any more. I lost him 3 years ago and it still hurts and I remember all too well how hard it was for the first year or so. Have you thought about getting some counselling to help you deal with your grief? I think sometimes we are so busy looking after our families we don't take the time we need to look after ourselves and losing your mum is a huge think to try and comprehend. I think it took me a full year to actually acknowledge my Dad had gone.
Have you got anyone you can sit and talk to about your feelings and just have a good cry with?
So wish I had a magic wand Jark so I could bring your mum back and give you a daughter. If only life was that simple. xxxx
Definitely sure. I feel a little numb and like I can't breathe.
Congrats on a sweet little boy Shell! I hope you are doing okay. He sounds like a real sweetheart though, all shy and snuggly.
Whose next? Surgena? Anyone before that that I am missing? We should be heading toward the end of may for elective scans...I know a few folks find out in January at their anatomy though. Then we will be looking down the pike to the first arrivals!!
Awww Shell, wish I could give you a big hug. The first 24 hours is the worst hun, have a good cry if you need to, before you know it you will soon be looking forward to meeting your gorgeous little man. xxxx
Jark, Sending you my thoughts and prayers during this time of grief. Take all the time you need and we will welcome you back with open arms when you're ready. Please know that we are all here for you. Big hugs to you. (((HUGS)))
Shell, congratulations on your boy. I'm sorry you didn't hear girl though. Sounds like you already have a little stinker in there since he kept y'all guessing. :wink:
Shell so sorry you didn't hear girl, hope your doing ok.
Congratulations on your little man. xx
I was just at the vet with Our new puppy and the vet tech there said she was told boy with her first and 20 weeks later she had a girl!
I'm really sorry you didn't hear girl shell, but a huge congratulations on your healthy little man! Big hugs being sent your way xxx
I know it is unlikely but I so hope some of us on here that have heard opposites have this happen to us. I've stopped obsessing quite so much over us pics that proved to be opposites and I am actually looking forward to having three little boys. Doesn't stop me dreaming of having a daughter of course though, or feeling sad at the thought of never having one.Quote:
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If the big man is watching up there please make sure we all have healthy little ones please and if you can throw us a few gender miracles that would be awesome! ;) x
Suregena i have been having those crampy feelings too, i think its normal, and ouch that must have hurt your butt. The babies double in size from week 15 - 17 or something like that so lots of stretching of the uterus atm. I also was a little concerned about it because it was pretty bad after i drove in the car and went over a bump in the road a bit too quickly and the seat belt bit into my belly down low under my bump and then it was just so uncomfortable to move and walk. Its all better now, but ladeis just a reminder to take good care of your bumps and be careful with everything you do.
Jark so sorry you are still feeling the double wham of your mom and daughter :( I hope you feel better soon and we will all be thinking of you while you are on a break from here. I think the spirits should rise quite a bit in here when we start posting the pics of our precious little babies.
Shell congrats on your little boy, hope you are doing ok with the news, sending you hugs.
oh cinss! i didnt know that about size. that makes sense.
the last time I remember looking at someones pic that was as far along as me and I was thinking I looked way to small (I think that was my first sign something was wrong) I am way bigger this time and measuring on track. Hope thats a good sign!
Congratulations on your baby boy Shell, hope you're doing ok hon. He sounds like a sweetie already.
Jark I totally understand you wanting to stay away for a while, you have been through so much losing your mum, I can only imagine how hard that is on you. I do hope we get to hear from you again as you get closer to your due date but understand if it hurts too much, big hugs to you x
So am I right in saying Surgena is next?? SO how long exactly do I have to wait for this exciting news :) I get so confused with the time differences.
Only 3 weeks 3 days left before my scan!! It doesnt sound that long now.. Im sure I'll manage to hold out :)
I think it goes something like thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Bimby
starbabyx4 - 11th December
Suregena - 12th December
Bluechance - 14th December
Turning the page - 15th December
Correct me if im wrong anyone, and if i missed anyone?
So nervous. Wednesday is coming around fast! Scan is at 7.45pm UK time and I have to go to one of the nearby cities for it but I'll have my phone and hopefully will still have battery life left in it by that time so I don't leave you all hanging too long! Getting so nervous! It's a a double whammy of nerves... for the scan on Wednesday and my transatlantic flight Thursday! Eeeek!
That makes sense then. The cramping seems to mostly faded tonight but my whole right side is still sooo sore from falling on the ice... especially half of my butt! Haha!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinss
Shell I'm so sorry you didn't hear girl :(
I know it's a shock, as much as I prepared myself to hear boy, it was still a shock.
I hope it passes for you quickly, take the time to spoil yourself, do whatever you need to make yourself smile.
I've been googling info on 'girls mistaken for boys' and found tons of reading. (I don't know why, I mean never has a clearer scrotum been seen then the one on my potty shot)
Sadly, most of these errors are from 3+ years ago, ultrasound technology has come a long way since then, also found a thread on baby centre where there were photos of boy ultrasounds, which ended up being girls at birth or at scan that are at 20+ weeks, and all the pics are fairly blurry, and are ambiguous looking.
So my tiny glimmer of hope was short lived :(
Of course, every baby I see at the shops is a girl, every family I see is a pigeon pair - I know it's just my subconscious noticing that, but it still gives me some :( moments
Am excited to meet this little fella though and finally have a little baby again :)
DH is still open to a third, which is positive, but I'm going to have to think long and hard about it, I think I've been fairly lucky in that I've not been a victim of severe Gd this time round, but I don't know that next time round I can face it with as much optimism and positivity if I have boy number 3, 3 is without a doubt dh's limit, so if number 3 were a boy it would definitely be the end of a dream.
Ahh well, that's at least 2 years away, who know, maybe atomic and NBP will have come across the magic potion by then!
Jark, I'm so sorry you are still hurting :( I wish I had the words to help, but I know that only time can heal those pains for you.
One thing I do know is that every single person on here that has had an opposite says that the moment the baby is born, it disappears. Allow yourself to grieve for now, and try and find comfort in the fact that this will pass. No matter how dark the dawn, the sun will always rise...
I can understanding your yearning for a mother daughter relationship, I too am extremely close to my mum and that's the reason I want a daughter so much, so that I too can have the relationship, so that part I do understand. I know I haven't lived through your pain of losing a mother, and of a third gd, but I can imagine how it must be eating you up inside :(
Maybe it might help to speak to your dr, or a counsellor, they might offer some other options? Maybe book a 3d bonding scan, I've heard that helps some?
Your certainly not alone, and as taboo as gd is, it certainly is very much existent, goodness, in some countries they terminate or adopt out based on gender alone, so the extreme disappointment and hurt you feel is not uncommon, or unusual, so don't feel bad.
I really hope you feel better soon, and feel free to vent here anytime you want, no one here will ever judge anything you say or feel.
Congratulations on your little boy Shelle, i'm sorry you didn't hear girl x
I love that quote Lassie "No matter how dark the dawn, the sun will always rise" so true! The one I usually live by is "This too shall pass" no matter how tough things get we always get through it.
You're right about the scans unlikely to be wrong, mine looks super clear on the scan I just wish I had a proper potty shot as I don't think I would have doubted it half as much if I had. The tech seemed experienced and said she couldn't say 100% but here were the scrotum and here was the willy so if it turned out to be a girl she would be totally shocked lol! The hospital I have had scans at have been known to get it wrong and everyone keeps telling me that, but I heard that when I had the scans for my first two boys as well and of course they were right for that!
I don't think a tiny glimmer of hope hurts though at this stage if it helps us through, as you say we know when we are holding are newborns we will fall instantly in love with them and gender really won't be an issue. I'm starting to get really excited about him arriving now, I think my gender desire had actually got in the way of me thinking about all the lovely stuff of having a new baby.
I need to get a new travel system which I'm hoping to do in January or February, and I need to sort through all the boys old clothes. I've bought a hanging wicker crib from a friend which I am mega excited about as it means the baby will be kept well away from our dog, and it is a good size so will last much longer than the moses basket I had with the boys.
I know what you mean about seeing mixed familys everywhere, the girls always look super cute too! I did see a family with three little boys the other day though and they looked so sweet which gave me a big smile on my face.
My two boys are awesome and such good friends, they were playing happily together for an hour this morning in their bedroom while hubby and I had a bit of a lie in! So I promise you Lassie that you will love having your new little man around, and the fact that number three is an option is a big bonus. The way I look at it is ok my sway didn't work this time, and maybe 3 is enough for me to handle but if we do decide to go on to have a 4th there will be more swaying info out there, more case studies etc to hopefully help me have a strong sway.
A friend of mine swears by some cough medicine to sway for a girl, she took it when ttc her 4th and had a girl and I was going to take it this time but I googled it and was put off by some of the warnings when related to the harm it could do to a baby. I'm kicking myself now as obviously the idea is you take it up to ovulation and then stop as soon as you get a strong line on an opk so there shouldn't have been any problem. I also wish I hadn't used sylk as I think that may have killed my sway. At least these are all things I can think about if we do try again.
Cramps wise Suregena I had them really bad around that time too, I would go and get a scan though if you're worried after your fall. My cramps have eased off now but I get really achy down below and my lady bits just feel like I have been kicked in them by the end of the day. Pregnancy is such fun lol! ;)
Im not trying to get anyones hopes up by telling this but seeing as it has come up again there was a lady on FB 2 days ago who left a comment on a mutual friends status that she was told the wrong sex at her 12 and 18 week ultrasounds. I commented back to her to find out a bit more info because she said it was at Paradise ultrasound which was where i had mine done too. Well it turns out that she was told girl both times by the same tech who did mine and my SILs, and she has a pretty much 100% right reputation for early guessing, all of the girls on the Gold Coast know who she is and and everyone tries to get in with her. If you saw my 12 week pics they are super clear and the equipment they use there is very advanced and high tech. Anyway this lady did a reveal at her wedding by putting pink inside the wedding cake and of course it was a girl she really wanted because she had 1 son already. She then went to the same ultrasound school as i did as a voulenteer and the tech there told her that the baby is in fact a boy. She was saying how she felt like a "tool" after the reveal and everything and now has to return everything she bought because it is all pink. She ended up going back to paradise ultrasound to have the gender confirmed and paid $170 for it and yes all of a sudden it turned into a boy!
This is the exact sort of thing I've been googling like mad.....I think as far as mistakes go, it's more common to get 'girl' wrong, (ie, told girl when it's a boy) if your told boy, after 15 weeks then its pretty much 100% if the equipment is clear. Sometimes if the tech is new, the equipment old, or if the baby has his legs shut it is possible to miss it. Whereas if its a boy and the scrotum is there, then it's there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinss
Like with the shots that you and I have Cinns, you can clearly see a defined scrotum and penis, as opposed to just a 'bulge' which could be a swollen labia.
You can see the circular roundness of the scrotum, if it was swollen labia I think it would be straighter lines, not circular, a labia would also be more attached between the legs, whereas in our shots you can see small space between the leg and the scrotum...
Rest assured chick, I'm certain your boy is 1000% accurate.
I will try and find that baby centre thread with the photos of girls diagnosed as boys.
Sorry it was baby and bump, not baby centre
Here is the thread http://babyandbump.momtastic.com/pre...5-5-weeks.html
I think you have to be a member to see the photos, so here are the photos that were labeled boy, but baby ended up being a girl
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Here is another http://babyandbump.momtastic.com/pre...pdate-pg7.html
And another, this one is 39 pages long and I never bothered reading it all, but all the mistaken ultrasounds on there were pretty unclear and ambiguous I think
http://www.in-gender.com/cs/forums/t...px?PageIndex=1
Wow, Lassie! Thanks for the research! I agree with you, that the incorrect gender predictions were kinda unclear from my standpoint too. And going to in-gender reminds me how frustrating that site is...it takes at least 3 minutes for every page to download. Ha! :)
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Originally Posted by Cinss
Omg that's the exact kind of story that makes me freak out lol ......poor woman tho :(
I've had 2 scans now both saying girl but part of me totally doubts it specially as ppl still say to me they always get girls wrong! Wish I could afford another scan, my husband would go mad if he knew I was worrying tho! Don't think I will beleive it until she's here though x
actually my u/s tech things girls are more mistaken for boys a lot of the time, especially earlier , like 15 weeks. because of the possible swollen girl parts still. she said shes seen a lot of mistakes made that way
cinss -
did she get her money back??
what was the explanation from the tech?
Wow some of those pics really do look like boys! Just shows it is possible especially if the gender was determined before 18 weeks.
I think the chances of it happening to one of us is very unlikely though, particularly those who have had multiple scans and 3d scans etc. But fingers crossed if it does happen it happens to one of us that really wants the opposite gender.
It is funny as a lot of the gender opposite posts I have been reading have said that they just knew it wasn't the gender they had been told at the u/s and that something just didn't sit right for them. Most don't show their u/s pics so it is hard to know how clear they were. That is the way I feel this time though, even though I am starting to get my head around it being another boy I still feel that it is weird as my gut was telling me girl. I'm sure that is mainly down to my desire for a girl rather than any maternal instinct. With ds2 I thought he was a girl until my scan but that was more because the pregnancy had been so different from my first and I had been so sick. I accepted it a lot quicker that he was a boy after the scan but maybe that was because we had always said we would have three regardless of gender.
We went to see a friend today and I got the typical 'was the baby planned then' ... erm yes thanks all of our children were planned! Followed by 'bet you are disappointed it isn't a girl, does this mean you'll be trying again?'. I think they could tell by the look I gave them that I am so sick of the comments already so they quickly followed it up with 'three boys will be nice though, you'll appreciate having all boys compared to all girls when they get older'. Hmmmm... I wouldn't know having never had a daughter but I guess at least they were trying to make me feel better even if they were digging themselves a deeper and deeper hole!!!!
Has anyone seen a sideways profile u/s that looks like a boy but turns out to be a girl? I've only ever found potty shot ones, a tech on another site told me sideways ones are more accurate for boys so I think mine is pretty definitely a boy! x