My son has been a dream baby and toddler from the get go... so I've always said maybe the second will set us straight and be harder. Ha.
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My son has been a dream baby and toddler from the get go... so I've always said maybe the second will set us straight and be harder. Ha.
Lol i like that my first was a challenge , I don't know how I would have handled it if it was the other way around
Ugh I had the worst dream I got an u/s again at the same place and lady said "uh oh look now there's a penis"
Winngrin, my basset was tough to train. They are notorious for being very stubborn!!! She's still adjusting too. And they do whine. Gary is 9 and still cries when we go to the vet.
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Christmas 2012
Oh my goodness, 3m, your kids are adorable!
Thank you so much Shell!! How are you doing my friend?? Congrats on your baby boy.
ThreeMenAndALady that is one of the cutest pictures ever. Your children are absolutely beautiful, you must be so proud of how cute they look there. :)
Thank you luckylass!! They did a great job this year. It's tough getting all 4 of them to smile in a picture...and stand still. lol
Awww Threemen your children are just beautiful! How super cute is your little girl!!!! :) xxx
Thank you mummypink!!!
Three! Gorgeous picture and children! Your daughter is too adorable for words!
I too a glad my first well first two were more challenging. It can only get better and I know how to deal with so many problems and situations. I am super prepared for a third, just not ready to get up at night to feed, ick.
Thanks Rosie!!!
Also hi ho cherry o is a good game! Barn yard bingo, matching games, hungry hippo...did someone say that one?
Omg ThreeMenAndALady your kids are adorable such a lovely picture xx
Thank you Tiffani!!!
Awww 3m you have beautiful babies! Xx
Thanks Hbp!!!
Thanks, 3m. The morning sickness is back and has been hitting hard. I had a few weeks of feeling better and then the cycle started again. Basically I have to eat all day, because if my blood sugar drops and I throw up, I can't stop for hours. :( I'm ready to feel better so I can start enjoying this!
Such a great christmas picture!! I am so astounded you even managed to get them all looking in one direction, much less to mention looking rather adorable! I can't get TWO of them to sit still and look decent. Lol.
I am sorry some ladies are still having a rough pregnancy. It would suck to be sick like that for so long. I guess part of the reason I enjoy pregnancy so much is that I really have an easy time of it. I shall count my blessings. Everyone loved to tell me with my first that if my pregnancy was so easy (and it was) that I would have a horrendous birth. But that was easy too. I guess pregnancy just agrees with some people and not with others. I am even looking forward to being huge and giving birth. I do feel for folks who just hate it.
Can I say...I am having so much fun knowing the sex of the baby and not telling any one. I am not hiding that we know, I am just hiding what it is. And it really drives people mad. Lol. We are only planning to keep it until after Christmas (and after our official anatomy scan, when we know all is healthy). But I am quite enjoying the guessing everyone is doing. It's pretty tied up with those who think boy and those who think girl. And I am amazed how few stupid comments I am getting since I already know. It might be a brilliant solution to those who stay team green and don't want dummies to say things about gender. Everyone is just enjoying guessing. It might not last and I am sure someone will have a stupid remark. But it seems a lot less than before when I said we didn't know what it was. Maybe folks are afraid to insult me, since I know what I am carrying. I wish I had tried this with my last baby!!
Lol thats funny
It's killing me that I know too .
But same I don't want to say anything until after my scan next weds.
But people don't even know I know.
Except my mil bc her comment made me mad I had to respond lol
OMG :omg: that is the beautiful little girl i have seen for a long time, i know you said Ava was beautiful but she is going to break hearts when she's older! And i love all the handsome men surrounding her, they will be a force to reckoned with, good job when they have a sister that lovely. What a gorgeous family, you must be so proud x
Need... to step away... from confirmed boy nubs. I'm comparing/contrasting again. Don't like this build up to Wednesday! :/
Anyone else get concerned about the effect multiple u/s can have on the baby?
My tech offered to check on baby again this week but I dono if so many u/s good.
Great pic 3M! Your kids all look so happy and well behaved :D
Me spinning, I only had two with my first, one with the second and four already with this one. I know many people who have tons more and their babies are fine, but I still worry...it's what I do!
I just found this but don't know if it's reassuring or not!
Safety of diagnostic ultrasound in fetal scanning
Over lunch today my husband said he would really personally want to stop at two for eco reasons with overpopulation... and I told him for me I don't want to make any permanent plans because I'd be open to a third dependent on if I felt like I still wasn't complete. We're planning on adopting in the future, too, so either way we'll end up with a big family.
However, it just made me want to sit and stare at the nub in the images of mine even more. It's like... it does look like a lot of the confirmed girl nubs, but it also looks like the boy ones... which is just crazy-inducing.
I'll be just as happy with a boy, I totally will. I don't think I'd get depressed at all if it's a boy. But it's that thing... I'm in it, so I sort of want and am leaning towards it (in wanting a girl)... and I never had this anxiousness before the scan with my son. So it's kind of annoying me and I can't shake it!
I think it's pretty normal Suregena, I was only nervous to find out if everything was ok when I had my scan with ds1 gender really didn't matter at all. With ds2 I hoped it was a girl as it would take the pressure off when we had a third (as we always planned to have three) but at the same time as we had a small age gap between them I thought a little brother close in age would be really nice too.
This time the pressure just felt crazy and it was horrible, I had all the usual nerves of whether everything was going to be ok with the baby and on top of that the overwhelming desire for it to be a girl which I absolutely hated.
Even now I have got my head around another boy and we have pretty much agreed on the name I'm still hoping they may have got it wrong and that by some miracle when I have my scan at 32 weeks they'll tell me the penis has vanished and it is a girl after all! Mental.
I am considering a 4th, but in all honesty I hope that once I'm holding my new little man I'll feel that my family is complete. I'm not sure I believe the sadness over never having a daughter will ever properly go though. :(
I know. I have three aunts. One aunt has three boys. The other has 2 boys. The third has 1 girl (my only girl 1st cousin on my mom's side whose like my sister! We're so close in age... months difference) and 1 boy. Then my mom has three boys and 1 girl (me). My husband has two brothers (one is no longer alive... died in the '90s.) His dad had two brothers. My mom, though, was a family of four girls. So pretty heavily surrounded by boys!
However, my oldest brother has 1 boy and 1 girl. My second oldest brother has 1 boy and 1 girl. So, it's all strange... that desire... that want of a sort of balance. But knowing my grandparents, they never showed a hint of wishing they had a boy because look... they ended up surrounded by grandsons galore! And my aunts with only boys seem perfectly content. So I figure if that is to be my path, too, that I will also have that content feeling.
My mother in law is VERY bitter and resentful she never had a girl and she has put immense verbal pressure on me to be the one to get her that girl, which is really, really irritating, to be honest.
It's hard. But I'm certain you'll be in love with your little boy, like I would be if this turns out to be a boy. They're all such individuals that in the end, what does the gender matter? It's hard to try to shake the GD, though, for sure.
I hope I don't end up the bitter mil who never had a girl but maybe you could talk to her about it? Speaking now from personal experience, it is a very hard pill to swallow and her bitterness is probably stemmed from sadness. Maybe just let her know that you acknowledge her loss but that you are trying to stay positive and really ok with another boy and that her feelings are putting a lot of pressure on you and that is defiantly not fair!
I hope you do have peace if its a boy, its a horrible feeling not to and I wouldn't wish it on anyone! I wish I'd always have happy days about it (cause I do) but its hard, it just doesn't seem fair:/
I do honestly think I'll be okay. Will she? Who knows! The build up is what's making me go crazy.
She's hard to talk to like that, unfortunately. She's in her almost late 70s, from a sort of pre-war Britain era and does not really communicate her feelings all that much or all that well. She's taken me in like a sort of daughter and I have filled in some of that hole a bit but if I hear, "Hope it's healthy but also hope it's a girl." one more time... ! But, then, naturally, I'd love a girl! So maybe I'm just as bad?!
I'll just be glad when Wednesday night scan is done and over and I know and I can start moving on beyond this part of unknowingness and can put a name to this precious little one and get ready for the end of May.
And I also wish I could take away everyone's sad feelings. It makes me so sad reading and I wish I could say more, that's why a lot of times I don't say anything at all... because I don't know what to say. :(
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Threemen&alady - your kids are beautiful!!!! What a stunning picture, love it! x
Surgena, I totally understand your nerves hun, I'll be the same I know it. I already look at the boy & girl nubs now so imagine what Id be like the days before.. ugh I'll need you ladies to internet slap me lol Dont worry about your MIL she'll get over it, it's probably anticipation nerves for her too and once she knows Im sure she'll be happy for you, and if not well let that be her issue not yours. 2 boys are great if thats what happens (although Im sure you have a pinky) and for the record both my 2 were good kids with sleep etc so dont be afraid of that (i have to be honest though, Im already thinking if this one is a girl I bet I have a terror lol!!! I had it way to easy with my boys lol) Good Luck for tomorrrow hon x
It's on Wednesday - so I've got tomorrow to get through and Wednesday at work, then after work I'm heading to the scan. Oooof! Husband is leaving work early and meeting me part way there because it's in another city.
A sort-of like cousin (it's my uncle's nephew's wife - my aunt is the one I'm related to) is two months ahead of me and she's having her second boy, and I'll be seeing her when I get to the US. So if it's a boy, I'll be in good company, I think... which I find a nice comforting feeling, really!
I was like mummypink. Number two I wanted a girl to my worry about being able to have one but it wasn't a big deal. I was actually excited for Ds to have a brother. But with number 3 I was very nervous