Due in January, February & March 2019

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Originally Posted by kittendreams

Hey girls!
ABC sounds like your symptoms have really kicked in! Those gorgeous babes are obviously snuggled in and making themselves at home xx

Cassidy yay for an early scan! Can't wait to hear about it!


I just booked my first scan and panorama test for 12 July I'll be 9+3
Weeks- I cannot believe I will know if baby is healthy and their gender in around 5 weeks!!!


I'm so no prepared for this- this is it my last chance at my daughters and I feel so so strongly it's a boy.
I have no symptoms now not even cramping and nausea seems to have gone- I'm not even tired! I'm grateful but feel like it must be another boy because it seems most people I know with girls had terrible morning sickness really early.
How am I going to deal with this it's really life changing because if it's boy number 3 I'll have to adjust all my visions of the future and that's so scary.

Apologies for the vent my head is crazy right now xx

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Kitten - Did you have a lot of symptoms with your boys? I've known a lot of women who had mild or no MS and had girls and women with a LOT of MS who had boys!! My BF is pregnant with a boy right now and she had HG - SUPER sick!! I know it's hard b/c we've all been told/heard that more sickness=girl but definitely not always true. I was super nauseated and throwing up with DS2 by 5 1/2 weeks - was sure he was going to be a girl!!

Atomic swears symptoms don't mean anything though - in part because boy babies don't even start producing testosterone until later on so there really isn't any difference between boys and girls at this point.

Yea my symptoms have kicked in more - the nausea is pretty mild and really is only when I'm hungry, which is a lot of the time (but like I said, eating even when I'm hungry is hard!). I'm crazy tired and my boobs have definitely gotten bigger already which didn't happen with my boys. The nipple soreness is very off and on though - and every time they aren't sore I get all freaked out again! I've felt more emotional and weepy the past few days too.... but I think that's in part because I'm just so tired!! Even with having clearer symptoms this time I'm still so worried about Friday's scan.

One month until your scan & NIPT!! Exciting!!!!

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Originally Posted by Cassidy4

By LMP I would be 7w2d but by when I think I ovulated I would be about 6w3d. So hopefully we can see something :)

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Awesome! My RE last week said they expect to see a heartbeat by 6 weeks 2 days so by 6 weeks 3 days you will hopefully see bub's nice heartbeat!! My scan on Friday will be 6 weeks 3 days as well.

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Originally Posted by hannahptrussell

TP, with 2 of mine, I had cramping through the first 2 trimesters. That turned into significant ligament and sciatica pain. I think it all is related. I’m with you though in still freaking out over nothing. I wore a sea band bracelet today and questioned why I wasn’t feeling as nauseous as yesterday. I thought I was losing symptoms. I actually think the dang band is working! Haha. It is so easy to obsess over little things.
Oh ABC, I am with you on all the OWT signs. I am trying to let go. It’s just so hard. I had a dream that we had another boy and I woke up crying!! I told my husband that maybe I need to find out what we are having. So I can deal with it and get on with life! But what do y’all think? Easier on the emotions if I wait until that sweet baby is in my arms? Or does it just add to wishful thinking that it MAY be our girl?


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It's a hard question but I think it just depends on how each individual person would best cope with the news... If they are better off having time to adjust to gender disappointment before the birth, or feel like they wouldn't be as disappointed if they saw/held baby first. I have always thought it would be pretty tough to deal with that initial shock/gender disappointment in the delivery room though.

Thanks ladies, I hope we get our little girls! Kittendreams, with DS I was violently ill from BFP to birth, spending much of the time in between in the hospital with HG, yet he is SOOOOOOOO ALLLLLLL boy. I know there are studies and stuff, but everybody is just so different, and each pregnancy is so different. this is a huge source of hope for me :)
I’m totally scared too, and so scared of how I’ll react or cope. I already feel so outnumbered around here. A few of my girlfriends are pregnant too, and I’m just dreading one of them having a girl... and this mentally is soooooo not like me, can I start blaming hormones yet? :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by ABC.2606

Awesome! My RE last week said they expect to see a heartbeat by 6 weeks 2 days so by 6 weeks 3 days you will hopefully see bub's nice heartbeat!! My scan on Friday will be 6 weeks 3 days as well.

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Oh exciting!! I hope to see one then :) and good luck on your scan on Friday! Are you going to see if you can get a picture of your 2 peanuts?

Thanks girls! Feel a bit better reading that ms doesn't always= girls.
So sorry you were both so sick in previous pregnancies abc and pretty! That sounds awful!

I did have it with both boys and it kicked in at around 6-7 weeks. But it only lasted until 12 weeks and it was unpleasant but manageable.

I think I might go crazy symptom spotting! I just have to stop: take a breath and just enjoy these early days while I can.

Cannot wait to see some scan pics from you girls!!

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Originally Posted by Cassidy4

Oh exciting!! I hope to see one then :) and good luck on your scan on Friday! Are you going to see if you can get a picture of your 2 peanuts?

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Yea I will definitely ask for one this time!

Hi ladies
Just thought I'd pop in and say hi... I've been reading the thread a little while and feel like im getting to know you guys, but haven't commented as its still so early. But notice alot of you with similar due dates to me.
I'll introduce myself a little.
I have 2 boys. Didn't sway with either. Was hoping my first would be a boy and told myself I'd be happy either way with number 2 but knew if it was a boy I'd feel the pressure that I'd only get one more shot of a girl cuz my husband absolutely does not want more than 3. He didn't want more than 2 but since I originally wanted 4 or 5 we negotiated to 3.

So my thinking with swaying was I'd try the best I could to do everything in my power to get a girl and if I got a 3rd boy then I could know I couldn't have tried anything different and that's the way it's meant to be.... easier said than done though right!

I just see how different my brothers relationships are with my mom to mine. And my kids as apposed to theirs cuz once they got married they became their wives family. Not that they're not close but it's not the same. Even with my mil. My parents are much more involved in our lives than my husbands and I find it hard to process that I might not get that and go through moments when I find it so unfair that you can't do anything about it. (Atleast where I live you really can't)

Anyway I've convinced myself this is another boy. I just have a feeling.
And I'm in 2 minds whether or not to find out the gender. I'll be doing the harmony test anyway because we had health scares with my second boy and don't want to go through that again. But I don't know what's the best option for me. I didn't find out gender with either other pregnancy and I enjoyed not knowing. When my second son was born i was really overwhelmed.
He was prem and had other health issues that needed lots of tests for. My labor went so fast that the Dr wasn't even in the room when he was born and I was in so much shock over everything that I felt that he was a boy just added to all of that and felt like that information really weighed on me.
It may have been better to have known early in my pregnancy and processed that information by the time he was born.
On the other hand if I find out im having a boy now. For this last pregnancy I feel like it may ruin the rest of pregnancy. And while I'm sure I'll be disappointed once the baby is here I know I will love it whatever gender. But I'm worried that there is a possibility that finding out the gender at the birth could lead to me not enjoying those initial moments as I'll be mourning the daughter I'll never have.
Anyone here not finding out? Or you are? What are your thoughts?

In terms of symptoms. Got 0 morning sickness with my 2 boys. Like I didn't even feel pregnant till I started showing. But this time I'd say I feel a little nauseous. Not vomiting or anything too debilitating. Just a bit. Also doesn't feel like it'd feel better if I did vomit. No idea what it's meant to feel like. I'm still breastfeeding my son so can't really tell if my boobs have grown or hurt. They're always grown and hurt lol!

Anyway that's my novel for today. Think I'm on a different timezone to most of you ladies so definitely will be keeping up and responding you guys but probably when you're not on.
Congratulations to all of you x

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Hi and welcome Simkan!
I'm an Aussie so we are on similar time zones.
So sorry you are going through this gender anxiety too. It is so hard.
I'm not sure what's right for you but I have decided to find out gender early. As much as I would have loved at least one delivery room gender surprise (I found out with both ds1 & 2) I just have to know and move on.
I was disappointed with ds1&2 but by the time they came I was excited to meet them and I know it will be the same this time if it's ds3. I find having their name picked early helps too with bonding.

I hope you find peace with whatever you decide.
Did you sway at all for this baby?

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Originally Posted by kittendreams

Hi and welcome Simkan!
I'm an Aussie so we are on similar time zones.
So sorry you are going through this gender anxiety too. It is so hard.
I'm not sure what's right for you but I have decided to find out gender early. As much as I would have loved at least one delivery room gender surprise (I found out with both ds1 & 2) I just have to know and move on.
I was disappointed with ds1&2 but by the time they came I was excited to meet them and I know it will be the same this time if it's ds3. I find having their name picked early helps too with bonding.

I hope you find peace with whatever you decide.
Did you sway at all for this baby?

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Thank you for the welcome! That's good to know you were excited by the time they came. Part of me thinks that might be the way to go... I enjoyed the speculation with the last two pregnancies but I know I won't this time. Any speculation that it's girl will just get my hopes up and for boy I'll feel sad so doing all the old wives tales won't be fun like with the other two.

Yes I did low calorie diet, pretty much vegetarian except little bit of chicken. No potassium, lots acid forming food. Took calcium, magnesium, folic acid and cranberry supplements.
Hubby wasn't interested in taking anything.
We did a 3 day cut off.
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And I got up and peed straight after. Hoping it was enough but I know these things don't always work the way we hope.
I know both my boys we Bd on ovulation day. I had tried to do 2-3 day cut off with s2 but wasn't getting pregnant and got impatient so did it like 2 days before and then again on O in the hope that a girl would get there... but alas.
Though my diet at the time was very much meat and high carb.

I feel like if it were up to science I did everything right to get a girl. But of course it's not as much in our control as we'd like hey. Especially once you're actually pregnant!
When can you find out kittendreams?


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