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Haha, I have a strange relationship with shopping. I DO enjoy shopping, but I'm really cheap and a bargain hunter. I'm also trying out some minimalism in my house, which means getting rid of excess stuff in your house and not overbuying. I'm joyfully getting rid of all the baby boy clothes (except for the few things I cannot part with that will go into a shadowbox with other baby scrapbooking stuff) and other non- gender neutral stuff they've outgrown, but, as a woman who really isn't very girly herself, it's more about having the freedom to make dresses out of Star Wars print and pirate print pinafores. I LOVE sewing and knitting, and I really want to make her a Princess Leia (the only princess I've ever idolized, BTW) cap out of yarn for her baby photo shoot. I'm also making her an ivy crown and a holly crown, and gathering purple fabric for her quilt.
I think I suck at this "buying baby girl stuff" thing. I am much more into purple and other colors than pink, and I'm getting excited about free hand-me-downs from the mamas I know with older baby girls :)
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Thank you Daisymoo. I'm feeling hopeful :D
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A Princess Leia cap I love it!!!!
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Omg lilith..that sounds tooo cute mmu must share pics when u r done making the little outfits. Do tou have etsy shop or something? ? Would love to check out ur work and maybe get something
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Lilith what great ideas for dresses! I love sewing too, it's fun when they get old enough to choose what they want too. Yesterday I made some skirts for my DDs and DD1 (3yo) who is ultra girly chose a ballerina print fabric and DD2 (19mo) chose a camper van print fabric hahaha they are both so different! Wish I Cld knit too x
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Okay, so we just had our first scan for the NT testing :-) I'm about to write a whole lot, so sorry in advance for the long post, lol. First things first, baby was healthy and everything seemed to be good, measurement-wise for the NT part of it, so that's of course the best and most important news :-)
When we sat down with the tech, I told her that I understand this is for the NT testing and that that's the most important thing, but that if she could get a nub shot, I;d really appreciate it. Her response was "I won't". Really? I asked her why not and she said because she doesn't like to guess unless she's 100% positive and that it's too early to be sure. I told her that I can understand that, but that I DO like to guess. I mean, I wasn't asking her for her damn opinion. I just wanted a pic of it so that I could have fun guessing! So yeah, the whole apt started off pretty rough. She tried to make it up to me after that by asking questions and being sweet as pie, but I was still a bit irritated at her, and irritated that I was irritated at the first viewing of my little one!
Anyhoo, as she was getting her measurements, my spirits lifted dramatically because I kept seeing the nub and it was definitely looking very clearly boy to me, but I didn't say anything and was just hoping she'd take a shot of it on accident. But either way I felt happy because it definitely looked boy. Then, as she was going through, she even commented on it and took a pic, saying, well, if that doesn't end up being boy, I'll be shocked because it's definitely looks that way. She then softened up a bit and started getting angles of the nub so we could look and I was agreeing with her. She even did a potty shot where we saw a turtle, but both of us agreed that shot wasn't as make or break, as girl parts can still look similar from that angle. BUt still, in the end she was practically telling me that we definitely have a boy! Hubby and I are just so excited right now!!
We obviously won't celebrate just yet, but it has give me so much hope :-) During the ultrasound, the baby was actually measuring 12w6d today, even though I thought I was only 12w1d, so they decided to move my due date up. They said they normally don't when it's within a week, but because I knew my cycle so well and knew it was longer this time and that I ovulated a little later than normal, plus the fact that our daughter came naturally almost 3 weeks early, they decided to move it up. So now I am officially in this group with a 2/25/15 due date! We found a place that will do gender determination as early as 14 weeks. We're going to make an apt for 2 weeks from this Friday. We'll actually be 15w2d with this new calculation, but I really want it to be accurate, and the main deadline is the following Monday, as I'm going to Vegas for a work thing where I will likely get a lot of free baby stuff, so I wanted to be able to tell them if it's a boy or girl :-) I dunno.. I'm looking at the calendar now and am tempted to make the apt earlier. Even a week from this Friday we would be 14w2d... I will have to think about that as it's very tempting!!
So yeah... I'm feeling pretty good right now, lol. I will post a couple pics below with decent nub shots. Would love for you ladies to give me your thoughts! Will be posting on the other board as well. Seriously on cloud 9 right now!!
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Looks boyish to me!!!! How exciting :)
Angie
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Oh wow Crazycatcouple That is 100% boy!! I'm usually crap at guessing but it's so obvious in your pics! Huge congrats girlie!!!! You're getting your boy!
I had my gender scan this evening and guess what? It's a GIRL!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I'm actually typing this I'm in a complete daze!! I'm still in shock I never thought I would get a little girl I haven't stopped smiling all evening My sway worked Yipppeeeee!!!! http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...72af2347b3.jpg
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Wow! What fab pics to wake up to!
Crazycat, woohoo! That looks totally boy to me! So excited! And so excited ur back in our due date club yay!!!
And daisy!!!!! Yay yay yay yay! That's soooo a little girl, I'm super stoked for you! Congrats ladies, that's just amazing xx
