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peb, you dont even look preggers from the back:agree:
How is everyone doing??? Arent these babies making themselves known now lol!! LO is climbing around rotten at nights now in bed, its lovely to feel, its getting so exciting for delivery isn't it:)
I failed my 1 hour and 3 hour glucose tests. Doctor had me take a nutrition class and start testing my blood sugar four times a day. Numbers are still high, so now the doctor wants me to see a specialist and be put on medicine. I'll do whatever to make sure baby is healthy, but I am so mad at myself!!! I've been doing nothing but beat myself up over it all.
Awh sorry to hear that Katie, do you usually have big babies, I had that test done this pregnancy because my babies are all big! I was so careful with what I ate this pregnancy! Mine came back clear..
I know but I most certainly do from the front!! My bump is growing very quickly now!!!!!! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by ELP
My first two were average but my third was over 9 pounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by pebmcp6
Oh no Katie, what do they advise?? Is it diet controlled or just something that happens??? I have a terrible craving for bags of Wispa Bites chocolates atm, UK ladies you know the ones lol!! I'm sure they are doing me No favors!!:oops:
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Originally Posted by xokatietatie
I failed my 1 hour, and I just took the 3 hour yesterday. I don't know the results yet. I only missed the 1 hour by 4 points and they said that wasn't that bad. So hopefully my 3 hour will come back clear. If not, we might need to help each other out. I have never dealt with this in my other pregnancies.
I tried changing my diet and have been eating really well, but my blood sugar is still quite high. The doctor is sending me to the specialist next week. In the mean time I will just continue to eat as healthy as I can. It's not like I was eating junk before, but I have cut out so much!
I am looking at my profile pic, and how did I ever hold out hope that it was gonna be a girl!!! you can see so plainly that the nub is boy!!!
Hi girls. Took a break for a while and now peeking back in to say hello. I've been doing great w the GD up until recently. We haven't told our boys (4.5 and just turned 3) that we know the gender. All was good until recently they have begun referring to him as "she" and "her" amd saying they hope its a girl. Breaks my heart.
We are still undecided on our name. Thought we were pretty sure on Mason but in the last few days I have kind if fallen in love with Elliott. Madden is still in my mind, too. Any opinions? ;)
Hope you are all well! I'm uncomfortable as all get out and am just ready for oct already!
I love Elliott!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lld2006
I love Elliott too!!!!
LOVE Elliot and I'd love to use it if baby is a boy but DH doesn't agree
Hi! The time goes soo fast, soon october :) How are you all feeling? I had a bleeding two days ago and im at bedrest for the moment(well I hope its only for the moment) Only about 1,5 months left to due date!
Ahhhh I love the excitement over Elliot! Now guess I just need to work on my hubs, lol!
Have any of you ever known any little girl Elliot's? I googled the name and seemed to be some chatter about it being used for a girls name. Def dont want to run into issues with that...?
I would definitely not put Elliot for a girls name:) They have enough already! Elly, elle, ella! They can leave Elliot alone lol!!! My dh was considering Eligh for ours Im not sure how you spell it said ee-lie, but we have all family names so far and its not a family name so id prefer to keep the lonk going iykwim :)
Quick rant! The pain!!! Im waking more and more at night with my ribs bending and hurting! Last night is was cry out pain in the bobbly bit at the bottom of my brest bone, not has tgat one before!!!
I Love Elliot as well. It was on my short list.
I do know a girl Elliot, her name is spelt Eliott. She is one of 4 girls, with sisters Mae, Taylor (which can be either sex) and Alix. But I think Elliot is very firmly in peoples minds as a boys name.
I've been away for the week so just back today. I did think at one point during the holiday that the baby had turned. Won't know until the 5th of Sept, by which time he'll probably have moved again his such a wriggler. But All the rapid, strong kicks I was getting in my hips seem to now be concentrated on my ribs for the time being.
There was a character named Elliot on the TV show "Scrubs" that was a girl, but the only one I've ever personally known was a guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lld2006
Never heard of it as a girls name, def a boys name to me.
motherofboys - sounds promising, hope he has moved!
Me too. One less thing to worry about LOL
How much has everyone got left to do? I've got 7 weeks today till DS2s birthday and 7weeks 4 days till EDD.
Thinking I better get a move on. I still need all the stuff to make up my home birth box, plus a hospital bag just in case. I need DH to get the baby clothes down so I can sort and wash them. I need to work out what else I need to buy and actually buy it.
I just ordered a new diaper bag! I found a place on Etsy that makes super cute bags, and I custom ordered one. It should be here in the next week or so. I'm very excited about it.
Today I'm washing all of baby's clothes. I pulled all the tags off and got everything sorted out in different laundry baskets. I have five loads of laundry to do!!! And that's just the new stuff we've bought over time! I still have to go through all the old baby clothes I have. I think it's safe to say that my child has too much crap and he's not even here yet.
Fortunately, I have most of the new baby prep done. I do however have both boys birthday parties to throw together and appts. for ds1 starting pre-school,visits to the birth center, and swim classes starting. Also my brother and his developmently delayed daughter have moved in with us, causing whole new layers of stress.
Sorry to hear that some have tested positive for diabetes. I failed my 1 hr and was convinced I would fail 3 hr, but fortunately passed. It just seems wrong to tell a pregnant woman to go on a diet.
Pangea- I think I recall you saying you weren't into pink, so I am wondering how your little girls wardrobe is turning out. I have never been a pink gal myself, but it looks like my little girl will be. I think dh and myself suprised ourselves by some of the clothing we have picked out. I guess we do the same thing in a different way with our boys though, as we think they look adorable in little polos (dh would never wear a polo).
My friend just got a bfp with her 4th. She has 3 girls already. She'd like a boy, her sister is having a boy and its the first grandson in the family.
Its making me a little sad, like if she does get a boy, why did she get what she wanted and I didn't and if she gets another girl then she got a girl and I didn't LOL
So I just ordered the baby some more clothes LMAO It helped a little but of course while scrolling down the page there were girls stuff in there too, or unisex stuff that looks really girly, and I kept wishing I could buy that.
I know I will be ok later, I just wish I could keep going till I got a girl. But the boys are really playing up atm so that is not going to sway DHs decision on whether or not we can have another.
I ordered baby some clothes last night too and peeked at the girls below and I felt the sane way! Gosh darn the clothes are so cute. I want desperately to be done with three as this pregnancy has been SO DIFFICULT on my body and energy level, but I just have to have a girl. My dad told my mom he would pay for me to go high tech, but I wonder if he will really follow through when the time comes. I hate being pregnant this time around....I'm miserable! M body is so sore and I have zero energy to play with my boys. Feel guilty. I know I just need to be thankful though !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by motherofboys
DH returned home last night from a weekend away and I was so excited to see if the name Elliot had grown on him but he said he doesnot like it. Why?!? Ugh. I'm not going to give up! I told him it is either Elliot or Madden and that I prefer Ellliot. We shall see if he comes around. Fingers crossed!
I forgot to mention that there was a birth announcement two weeks ago in my local paper for a baby boy named Madden! I love Elliot and it was on our list for ds2 until my brother claimed it (it is his middle name so he has dibs).
That's crazy! What state do you live in? I've never heard of another Madden but font doubt there are a lot floating around out there! They are two totally different names....my two older sons both have names that end in "on" and "en" so my husband thinks we should keep with that....hence Mason & Madden options. But I can't help but think breaking that would be refreshing and Elliot just is sounding right to me. But obviously I can't go with something my husband doesn't love...oh what to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberrymom
I've finally started buying things for the nursery (which ds2 currently still occupies, for now) so I'm excited to start putting it together. :)
I was looking for (english) football team sleepsuits/all in ones, and thought I was pretty safe because even if you had a girl and wanted to dress them in football stuff it would be the same suits for girls or boys. But no in with all the little vests and sleepers there were cute girl outfits with the team on them and girls little swim suits with the team colours and team on the front.
This pregnancy was much harder at the beginning but now its going so smoothly that another pregnancy doesn't seem to be too much of an issue, its the knowing that even if I did a 'perfect' sway I could still get a boy and then that would really be it. And thats IF I can convince DH to go for one more.
I thought I was over it and that I had come to the conclusion that a girl wasn't what was missing from my life or my family but now I feel I'm back where I started. And my friend fell pregnant first month of trying as well, when it took me 2 and a half years this time so I feel both jealous but also guilty that I should just be grateful to be having him at all.
I'm excited to get all my boys stuff out the loft for sorting and washing, I love the new clothes that I've bought for him. I'm excited to have him and know I will love him. But I can't help think if he had just been a girl I wouldn't have to make this decision. When it comes down to it I still want to buy all those girly clothes and the pink blankets. Someone posted on facebook the other day, having a girl after 2 boys, asking when her little girl wears a dress, do the tights go over or under the vest. I want that to be my biggest worry. Not whether or not I could go through it all again, the TTC, the sickness, the tiredness, the anxiousness and hope, to then be told boy again and have to deal with the disappointment and work through it to be 'ok' with it again, and have the fact that that really will be my last shot hanging over my head.
Motherofboys I feel the same, do I try again or not!! Like my chances are slim, I think we are designed to make beautiful boys!
My mum told me today that a friend asked how I was doing. Mum said she's fine, 6 weeks to go, the usual chat. The person then said, God help her!! meaning I was desperate for a girl. I have never said to anyone I would love a girl, not even my family!! People piss me off!! I am gonna have to go into hiding when my wee man is born :(
I wish I knew what it was a if it could be changed you know. I've read so much stuff on the subject, is it DH, is it me, is it both of us together? Swaying would be really hard for me, and I don't know if DH would want to do it. It would feel worth it if I got a girl I know, but if it was another boy it would make it so much harder.
I wanted another baby anyway, but DH and I can't even agree on whether there will be another and if there is when it will be. I feel bad for worrying about it now, I mean I haven't even popped this one out yet.
Some days I feel confident that its best to stop rather than just keep going and going. Other days I feel like I have to try one more time, but will there always be a one more time?
I was feeling fine about 4 boys and even thinking I was fine about the idea of 5 boys and telling people if we did have another I would want a boy. Now I have completely relapsed.
I am feeling a bit better about it today, I know I don't have to make a decision yet.
Its so hard this GD business. I'm mostly doing okay but then whenever I see families with little girls or a mix, I feel really sad. I love the idea of two little boys and I can't wait to meet my little man. But I just know I will never ever stop wanting a pinkie. I'm 90% sure that if all goes well with this delivery, then we'll go high tech in 2015. We're already saving and although I'm terrified that its a huge amount of money and there are no guarantees, I just know I have to try or I will always feel like I missed out on something amazing. My DH really wants a little girl too so at least we're on the same page. Hope everyone is keeping well. Not long now x
A smallish city in New York state.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lld2006
I went into labor with ds2 without deciding on a name beforehand- we had 2 possibles. Once he was born he looked more like one over the other and dh agreed. You could tell dh that you will decide when you see him, what name best suits him, and after watching you go through labor he might just go along with Elliot :wink: or you might find that Madden really does fit him.
My friends little boy is called Isaac, she loved it all through pregnancy but her DH wasn't too keen. They chose another name together but she still really felt like he was an Isaac. Then after he was born and the midwife asked her "does he have a name" she thought "sod it, I just carried him around for 9 months, I pushed him out of my body I'll call him what I want" and replied Isaac! Her DH didn't disagree and now his 4 and he agrees that his totally an Isaac and the other name wasn't right for him LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by strawberrymom
Right so because its getting closer now and its always fun to guess. Do you have an feelings about when your little one is going to turn up, or how big they will be or anything.
There are a few patterns I've been interested to see if this little man follows. I've had all 3 of the others on weekends, and I've had late, early, late, so was thinking it would be interesting to see if he followed the pattern and arrived early and on a weekend. If he did DS2s birthday is the sunday before my due date, so he could share a birthday. DS2 is the most excited and would love the baby to come for his birthday. For that very reason I bet he doesn't LOL
I just have this feeling that from the way his kept us waiting at scans to get measurements and been difficult about getting in the right position so they could see parts of him, that he is trying to make his presence felt and show how different he is already. My pregnancy has been so different too. I feel like I'm going to end up going way over, and will have to have him in the hospital because he will either still be breech or I'll have to be induced, and just to be different from the others he'll be huge as well LOL
Okay, sooo... I went and saw the specialist for my gestational diabetes today. They were quite busy and I ended up being there for FOUR HOURS!!!!! First they took me back for an ultrasound (which was a nice surprise) and I learned Duncan is measuring over 5 1/2 pounds. Big boy! Oh, and he's definitely a boy. They got a VERY clear shot of his boy parts. It's the first time I've seen them clearly this whole pregnancy. I saw the doctor after that. We talked about diet and some other things. I learned that this visit was not a one time thing. I'll be going back for ultrasounds and consultations EVERY WEEK!!! I also have to do an NST every week with my regular OB. So for the rest of the pregnancy I'll do an NST and a check-up with my regular OB on Mondays, and I'll do an ultrasound and check-up with the specialist on Thursdays. Holy cow! And I will for sure be induced early, just don't know when yet.
A good friend was induced this morning and is currently in labor with her daughter. It's funny how you can go months feeling at peace with the gender of your child and then BAM you suddenly feel like you're drowning from gender disappointment all over again.
Aw Katie I know how you feel.
But wow you are going to be so busy with all those appointments!
I see my midwife again next thursday (5th) so will find out what position this little man is in.
I'll have a guess for me!
31st October 9.57pm 9lb 1 oz :bigsmile:
I just cannot wait!! Im literally counting down the days like a kid at christmas lol.
Thinking 15th Oct 9lb 6ozs!!!
October 4 (I really think she wants to be early) and 8 lbs.