Due in Mar/April/May 2015

Hi ladies! We just got back from vacation at walt disney world. Had a great time but my whole body hurt and I'm still dealing with neck issues from the long ride (19 hours in the car! ) I added a pic of me from down there. I was 19.5 weeks. I'm 20w2d now and not looking much different. I am ready for a big round tummy!

I had my 20 week scan on Monday. Baby is looking good. Perfectly healthy! However she's footling breech which explains why I don't feel very much in the way of movement (along with my anterior placenta) My OB asked me to drink lots of water to get her to move because she claims that otherwise I will be very uncomfortable in the coming weeks.

Glad to see everybody seems to be doing well. I hope everybody enjoys the upcoming holidays!

Cute bump hoping for hairbows!!! Mine totally popped at 23 weeks and now there is no stopping it at 25 weeks!! But my babies were both very big so no doubt she will be as well.... Disneyland sounds fun bet your boys had a ball!! X

Merry christmas 2 all u lovely ladies! U all have the cutest bumps

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Taken today. 27 weeks tomorrow

Cuttteee!! Blessed momma can't believe you are in the third trimester xx

I'm suddenly terrified of having 3 kids. OMG I woke up panicking in the middle of the night after a few bad bad days with my boys having tantrums & whinging & being generally painful & now I'm hit with the reality of "Holy shit I'm having another one!" I'm not the greatest house keeper especially with having to work & it all suddenly freaked me out. Still, not much I can do now & I know 3 kids isn't exactly a football team or even considered a large family but still... Maybe I overestimated myself. ��

I think it's normall. And you'll be fine.
Your eldest is almost 6. It will be easier very fast now.
Your boys will do more and more themself. They will go to school. And you have time with your baby.
You need to let go of wanting to do everything perfect though.
Sometimes when I get nuts I put them in their room (shared room/ sometimes i split them) and go in to my own prettending I don't hear them.
Or i give them their tablet (wich they saved for from their own money) and let them watch cartoons. Heavenly peace.

Just go with the flow!!!

Hey gorgeous mamas, merry Christmas to you all! I hope you are having a wonderful day surrounded by family, love and joy.
Great pics girls. Looking blooming.
I def have the biggest bump of all and not feeling very glam
Today to post a pic. Maybe tomorrow ;-).
Xxxx

Primal mamma I'm in denial!!! I confess I am going into having number three forgetting everything and blissfully unaware of how hard its going to be!!! My youngest just turned five so the whole baby thing feels like a lifetime ago. Hopefully we can all support each other through the rough first six weeks I mean year!!
La vie post when you are ready, love to see your bump bet its gorgeous how many weeks are you now?
I ate waaayy too much on xmas day but had a ball took the boys to see Paddington bear which was such a sweet movie I think I enjoyed it more than they did. Xx

Here's my 27 week bump. I'm now 29 weeks and feel huge.
You ladies all look great!!!
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Beautiful bump sunflower.

IM trying not 2 think about how life will be with 3. Im sure its hard in the beginning but well all adjust the way we did before. Im actually very excited 2 meet my little girl, trying not to think of the sleepless nights ahead haha

Another gorgeous bump! 29 weeks sunflower not that long till you meet your team green baby !! Xx

Blessedmomma I found three easier than 2. I'm a bit worried about 4!!! I'm sure you will be fine. It will be exciting I'm sure you will be ok with the sleepless nights but I love my sleep so I understand.

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^^28.5 weeks :) Obviously taken yesterday by the tree. Hope everyone had a great holiday!

As for 3 kids...I swear it was my easiest transition yet. Part of it depends on personality. But a huge part of it is that your are a professional mom now. Lol. You realize how quickly the stages go and how you are capable of handling multiple needs at the same time. You are better at multitasking and the kids are better at having others siblings around and generally arent as needy after the baby comes (since they have another sibling who demands attention already). I literally never felt an ounce of overwhelmed with three versus two. The moments where i was overwhelmed felt exactly the same as when I was overwhelmed with two kids. Not really any change. So when you are having those "omg, how can handle one more kid demanding something right now" moments, realize it will feel the same, not multiplied. I feel that once you can manage the needs of two, three just comes more naturally. I am hoping, hoping that four proves to be the same. I am not too worried, I do feel like I hit my stride in parenting with #3. And from other moms of 4+, they all say its no big deal after three. So...we shall see.

Everyone's bellies are beautiful :) I love all bumps!

Gorgeous Hotdogz! Just a quick note to say Happy New Year!! Looking forward to sharing the final trimester with you ladies and to start seeing some babies being born in the new year!! Xx

Sneaking in from June/July/August. Happy new year ladies. This is the year our babies are born :)

Hi boysway! Bigwave! When is your nt scan? How are you feeling? x

Happy 2015 everyone :) It's been quiet in here, hopefully everyone is doing well!

Happy New Year's ladies :) 4 more months!!! Have you picked any names yet? We picked ours ♡

Hi Kitkat :) My nt scan is in exactly two weeks :D I can't wait. I feel good as long as I eat every two hours. I'm hoping the ms eases off soon. 11 weeks and 1 day today :)

Hi ladies! I haven't been on in a long time. I'm almost 31 weeks now!! I can't believe I only have 9 more weeks to go!! We just went and did the 3d ultrasound last week. It was so great to be able to see my sweet baby girl!! 💗🎀 I still can't believe my family will be complete! Here she is!! I'm in love!! 😍Attachment 22830

Gorgeous Aoii!! I love her lips. What a great picture!!!



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She is gorgeous!! 9 weeks to go crazy!!!
I am 26 weeks and can't believe I will be in the third trimester next week!
Boysway good luck with your nt scan hope you get a good nub shot and its screams boy! Hope you feel better soon its soooo draining! Xx

Aoii what an amazing picture! Has anyone thought about names? We can't think of any we love. We've got a few "Meh it's ok I guess" names but nothing "Wow that's IT!!" like the other two boys. And everyone EVERYWHERE is having girls, not just here but all my friends too are boy mums having girls. I just need to stay away for a while, which makes me feel selfish & horrid but it is what it is.

Hello ladies. I hope you don't mind that I sometimes secretly stalk your thread. It is just so exciting to watch all of your journeys :).
Primal: I was first able to get really excited about a possible boy once we had a boy name. I spent lots of time going through old lists and using sites like nymbler and chatting with my husband and now that we have a name that I love just as much as our previous boys I am super super excited about the possibility of a boy. Good luck finding a boy's name that you love!

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Hello lovelies, we are calling this little lady Hazel, its nice but weird to have the name picked out already both boys we made the final decision at birth. Awwwh primal that would be rough I think keeping a little distance for your own sanity is not a bad thing! Primal have you tried nameberry.com? Might give you some inspiration. Junie you are welcome anytime I often post in the due date group ahead of us and behind us ( you guys) its such a hard place where you are all at feeling sick and worried about gender we can all sympathise! Not long now till you will all have turned the corner sickness wise XX

im sorry Primal I understand, I wanted a boy so bad and everyone of my friends are having boys and its hard to hear about. GL on the name we picked Gemma Adaleigh.

Primal that is tough, but once you find the perfect name and he arrives I'm sure those feelings will not be there. The bond between brothers is awesome! As for names for mine I have always wanted Hailey if I ever had a girl. So there was really no thinking of names we were set. I did have a hard time picking a name with ds2 but we did and it fits him so well! Good luck!

Gorgeous names!! Primal your boys names are super original and cool I'm sure you will find something that sits perfectly with theirs X

Happy new year to you all!
Aoii: gorgeous little baby you have in your tunmy!

I'm 32 weeks - almost counting down already! Panic / nesting mode is taking over now and again lol
My blood test showed low blood count so have had iron tablets prescribed but really makes me feel worse so I have stopped takin them. Eating spinach instead lol

Kitkat: love the name Hazel.

We have Lilou for a girl but no name yet for a boy. We have already emilio, rocco and enzo so it's got to end in a 'o' - bette be a little princess in there!

Kitkat I LOVE Hazel, that was a name we discussed for a girl. Lilou is gorgeous to LaVie, reminds me of the movie The Fifth Element.

So we’ve come up with a name now but don’t know if we’ll be brave enough to use it. Fergus. It’s such a strong name, with “old man” qualities that I find charming. There are quite a few other reasons we like it: Darcy & Eamon are both Irish names & so we wanted another Irish name (even though we’re not Irish!). We were also looking for a name that didn’t sound like the other boys at all. For example we didn’t want a name that ended in a “y” sound (like Cory or Riley) because of Darcy, & we didn’t want another name ending in a “nn” sound (like Aiden or Dylan) because of Eamon. I also like the quirkiness that if we use Fergus, the boys names will start with D, E, and F so they’re alphabetical.

The third reason is that after using Darcy, who was named after Mr Darcy from P&P, I had my heart set on using names from Literature. Eamon isn’t from literature but I just ADORED it so much I HAD to use it. But there is a beautiful poem called “Who Goes With Fergus?” by Yeats. My husband & I studied it (along with P&P) in English Lit at Uni back in 1998 when he was 17 and I was 18.

Not only that, Fergus was an Irish Prince (and later King) who travelled WITH HIS TWO BROTHERS (see the significance??) across the sea to Scotland & founded the kingdom of Argyll.

Our “backup” name is Emmett which is nice enough & probably a much more benign & socially acceptable moniker to impose on a child. But I don’t love Emmett whereas Fergus I adore. And I love the idea of shortening it to Gus, that is way cool. I always admire (& am a tad jealous!) of my friends who are brave enough to use names like Oscar, Bruno, Otis & Huxley. For the last child I’d like to go for it & be brave too! But I know a lot of people will hate it, including our families.

What do you think??

Just popping in to say I love the name Fergus and Gus as a nn is adorable!!!

Lilou is soooo cute for a girl la vie!! LOVE Fergus and Gus for short primal, we have had some pretty Luke warm reactions to Hazel so don't worry too much about what your family thinks as long as you and hubby love it that is all that matters!
27 weeks Friday and feeling like a whale! It doesnt help I am starting to get all of the wow you look REALLY pregnant comments and why are you bigger than my friend who is 2 weeks ahead of me!!! I know I should not take it personally but I do :( anyone else getting these comments? Xx

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Kitkat I LOVE Hazel, that was a name we discussed for a girl. Lilou is gorgeous to LaVie, reminds me of the movie The Fifth Element.

So we’ve come up with a name now but don’t know if we’ll be brave enough to use it. Fergus. It’s such a strong name, with “old man” qualities that I find charming. There are quite a few other reasons we like it: Darcy & Eamon are both Irish names & so we wanted another Irish name (even though we’re not Irish!). We were also looking for a name that didn’t sound like the other boys at all. For example we didn’t want a name that ended in a “y” sound (like Cory or Riley) because of Darcy, & we didn’t want another name ending in a “nn” sound (like Aiden or Dylan) because of Eamon. I also like the quirkiness that if we use Fergus, the boys names will start with D, E, and F so they’re alphabetical.

The third reason is that after using Darcy, who was named after Mr Darcy from P&P, I had my heart set on using names from Literature. Eamon isn’t from literature but I just ADORED it so much I HAD to use it. But there is a beautiful poem called “Who Goes With Fergus?” by Yeats. My husband & I studied it (along with P&P) in English Lit at Uni back in 1998 when he was 17 and I was 18.

Not only that, Fergus was an Irish Prince (and later King) who travelled WITH HIS TWO BROTHERS (see the significance??) across the sea to Scotland & founded the kingdom of Argyll.

What do you think??

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I LOVE it!!! I don't think you should care about what others will think- unless the name is something you made up, people can't pronounce it, etc. Fergus is a beautiful strong name, and one which I think would be readily accepted in most parts of the world.

My husband is German and we live in Germany although I am from the Midwest. Our two sons are called Theodor and Ferdinand (Theo and Ferdi for short) and I know that especially Ferdinand took awhile for some of our family to get used to in the States (and here as well as they are both old fashioned names here which are coming back into style). But now everyone LOVES it and it fits perfectly to him. We recently decided that if we have another boy his name will be Casper. My mom was definitely silent for a minute after we told her, but she will love it if we end up using it and I know it will fit to our son if we have one. Now all three will have names which are given in both German and English but were popular in the States for the last time in the 1920s. I love them and even now still think how happy I am with the names we chose. I'm sure you'll feel the same if you go with Fergus.

I feel like you having strong feelings about the name Fergus means absolutely that you should go for it. I also love the nn Gus :)

Just popping over to say I too LOVE the name Fergus! There's a Fergus in one of the book series I read and we considered it for this little guy :-) And I too agree that even if you get luke warm or even negative reactions at first, all that will fade away once he's born and grows into his name, which he inevitably will. All the people that were on the fence about our daughter's name couldn't imagine her with anything else now of course. I say go for it!

Please have a Fergus Primal!! I would love, love, love to have a Gus. I have loved that name for so long but it sounds horrible with our last name. Which, unfortunately, a lot of short names don't suit our last name. So it really limits some of the choices we both like. But I agree on the "other people's opinion" aspect. My boys are named Irish names. One of which has become pretty popular in the States now and is nothing close to uncommon anymore. In fact, I fear it will eventually become "boring" to people due to overuse. But, I can't help that, since I named him when I loved it and we intended it to be more uncommon than it turned out to be. The other has a much more "classic" Irish name and we get some interesting opinions on it, even now that he is here and suits his name so well. I think it's because it has a different sound to it and people often need me to repeat it for them. I can't count how many people have said "Where did you come up with that one?" Lol. (And I usually answer snarky because it's seriously a very common name in Ireland). And then our daughter has a completely unrelated name to the boys. Not Irish, it's English. And extremely not girly. I guess since we had a girl after two boys, folks thought we would go all frilly and prissy and all that jazz. But we love it and it suits her so well I can't imagine her being anything else.

But now we are struggling to find a good fit for a name for this bub. We have a boy choice, which is an English name as well, although a surname instead of a common first name. I wanted something to tie in our daughters name. It is also much less common than our first child's name and much more common than our second sons name. I feel it's in the middle between our extremes. But we are struggling for a girl name. We have thrown a lot of them around, but nothing really seems to fit perfectly. We really liked one that is rather girly, but I think it sounds funny with our other kids names. We have about three top choices right now. But I don't know if we will even narrow it down before baby comes along.

Glad to hear that everyone is doing pretty well in the new year. I'm 30.5 weeks now and we are starting to talk about setting some stuff up for baby. Nothing major, but up until now we havent done a whole lot so far. We have another sonogram in about a week and a half and I hope they give me a cute profile pic of baby. And verify that all looks healthy and the placenta is moving properly. I'm getting over my fears now that we are further along and I'm starting to get nothing but excited to meet our new addition. We even picked out going home outfits for each sex.

I do like fergus too.
My eldest 2 also have irish names. Pretty uncommen here when we chose them. But they are getting popular. Our third man is uncommen but more like scandenavian. Our girl will get An english/arabic name.
We had another irish name if it was a boy. Wich I love!

I'm 31 weeks tomorrow and have been sick this entire pregnancy. Nauseous every day even when I take my anti-nausea pills. The last 3 days I've had a migraine.
I haven't bought much for this baby. I'm team green and have three boys so nothing girly in the house and feel odd to buy anything pink just in case. Sometimes I'm so sure it's another buy but then I'm not sure. I had mixed guesses on my 12 week scan so who knows.
Unfortunately being sick has made me not so excited to get anything new for the baby. I do have clothes from the boys but donated much of my other stuff (ie swing, bassinet, etc.) when we moved last year. Would love to hear everyone's names as I'm a bit stuck on another boys name.



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Sunflower you can PM for names if you like!