Well I'm sure some of you already saw it, but i thought I'd share it here too, I'm having a :DD: !!
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Well I'm sure some of you already saw it, but i thought I'd share it here too, I'm having a :DD: !!
It was one of the most surrealist moments in my life. I had been hoping to hear that for a while now, and I am still in disbelief. I keep checking the U/S pics to verify its a girl and there's no hidden penis anywhere...lol...I just can't seem to get through my skull that it's happened!
Congrats Auroara!!!!! fab news!! you must be totally ever the moon!!! Have you got anything pink yet?
Deaks.. I have some inhereitance too, but we should pay off our credit card lol. I keep mentioning 'Cyprus' to dh, he just rolls his eyes and kind of laughs which it fine by me as its not a NO :-) Im not sure how many embrio's id use, id worry if i had twins people would put 2 and 2 together and know id done ivf lol. Theres a lady on the pgd thread has just found out shes pregnant by Savvass (well not BY him) lol. She had 4 put back in!!! so he seems to be working his magic :-) x
Congratulations Aurora, that's wonderful news! Enjoy every minute!
Good night all, am off to bed, so tired. Been at work today and last 2 nights ds2 (out of the blue & not like him at all) up for several hours shouting and crying in the night. there is nothing obviously wrong with him and nothing I can do (apart from sleep in his room which I won't do) will make him happy. He's been sleeping worse since going on hols and now is in a bad habit of waking and can't put himself back to sleep. Hope this phase passes soon as I'm exhausted. Any tips?
lots of love to you all, catch up tomorrow :HH:
Indigo, i have been going through the same with ds2 for about a month (apart from during our holiday where he was zonked out at night!). Last night, dh and i decided we had to be firm and let him cry it out. It wasnt pleasant and took some time but eventually he did go off. Think we are going to stick with it now....will let you know if it works and how long it takes! X
Yay! Congratulations Auroara! Someone had to heard girl at some point! Did you do the LE diet?
I did a combo LE and IG diets, prob not the best strat, but most sensible for me. I kept the LE low everything diet things in mind, but did consume an awful lot of low or non fat diary, incl. non fat Greek yogurt and I had a no salt peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch (I was a big meat person, and a very thin spreading of peanut butter helped me stay full-ish without consuming meat).
CONGRATS hun how amazing for you x
ooooh i have girl jealously today they are everywhere!!!
Hi...
Littlemiss ~ Congrats on your little man :) hope you ae doing ok x
Deaks ~Congrats too on your little man, do think it's very early to know for sure though x
Auroara ~ Congrats on your little girl - enjoy x
Hi to everyone else :)
Deaks- weird how they go through these phases. I decided last night I'd go in 3 times to see /settle him and then that'd be it and i'd ignore him. He did settle eventually but it is so hard to hear the crying. I can literally do nothing to help him sleep so I realised there is no point me being there and he has to learn to settle himself. I hope he learns quickly. there is no way I could do this once baby comes, I have been so tired and grumpy today.
Hope you are all having good weekends.
Nice to hear from you Babymad- how are all the pg symptoms going? Still struggling? I hope you are able to get come help at the weekends.
My DH is running in the London marathon tomorrow, he had to go off this evening so I'm feeling a little lonely. Also so nervous for him, I'll be biting my nails tomorrow.
Night ladies :HH:
Congrats Auroara!! xx
Hello everyone, just popped on to read ur posts and see how Auroara got on, will write later. x
Good luck to your DH Indigo. My sister ran it two years back and I often go p to see it as her friends from her hockey club often run it. She did get in this year as well but had to delay till next year. Its amazing!
Hello Ladies Finally managed to catch up, life is so busy as always but pleasantly so, we are trying to get our house ready for an extension in the summer so gradually trying to sort and sell stuff. We will have 4/5 beds once its finished but one bedroom will be downstairs!
LMW Congrats on your little man!
Aurora Congrats on your little girl!
Deaks Congrats on your little man too!
Cant believe how fast all your little ones are growing, petal weaning already!!
Love to you all xxxxx
Congratulations auroara... you must be delighted.
How did your DH doin the Marathon Indigo? I did it about 8 years ago and ooooh its such a long way! My DH is into it too. Takes it much more seriously than I ever did! I miss running. Hoping I can get back into it fairly quickly after bubs - might just be too exhausted :D
Charlie - I know what you mean by having days where there seem to be girls everywhere. Had a 3yr old birthday party yesterday and most of the kids were girls. The other mums all sit there talking about where they bought that dress etc... I hadn't even changed Ernie from his combats and t-shirt. Just feel so out of their world - I'm the only one of my friends with more than 1 boy and most of them only have girls. They were asking if I know what I'm having. I've been lying and saying its a surprise. All I want to say is... look I honestly don't want to talk about it at all! Came home and had a good cry.
Sorry to be such a downer. I just really don't get to talk about it with anyone IRL and I feel like I'm going mad somedays. Then I feel so horridly guilty for my poor little baby.
Anyways - hope the rest are you are doing well... x
I love to run, it's so relaxing and freeing :) I never got to marathon distances tho :S
Aurora huge congratulations :)
Pinga, I'm sorry you felt down, there's probably some relation to it being so close to meeting your little man, I really hope you are feeling ok today
Pinga, i know exactly how you feel. All my friends have at least one dd and it is so hard listening to them and watching them sometimes. I too want to cry. I wish i was in your boat where you are so close to meeting your little man as he will melt your heart and that is what we all need to help us through this!
Hey everyone! apologising again for being so absent these days, but i'm going through one of my reading phases lol so not much time for me to sit on the computer. poor hubby hardly gets to see me these days as i always have my head stuck in a book :rofl: Hope you're all doing well and all those lovely smog bumps/babies are growing well :)
Thank you!! it is so hard to know what to do in such a situation as this and especially since it's my first child in school and i have no experience with the school system here. hubby however is english so he's a bit more in the 'know'. from what the school has told us to which he attends nursery at the moment their waiting list is a year apparently, but i know of a woman who's lives just around the corner from the school and has been trying to get her daughter into the school for the past 2 years so i can't see how the waiting list can be a year?? i just feel so helpless and frustrated with it all... it's just so wrong the whole thing.. he's 3 years old, has been to nursery now for over a year and has established friendships with the other children and trust bonds with the teachers there, so to me that all the kids are gonna be split up and uprooted like this is unbelievable! they should have priority to the school because they attend nursery there, it's as simple as that! aaargh! but thank you so much for your advice, i will contact my second and third choice of school as well and put him down on the waiting list :)
pinga huge hugs x i am the same making out I dont know what I am having.........cant bring myself to say it havnt even told my sisters......am dreading having to announce HIS arrival :(
Hugs to you deaks too x I know we will love our LO but it isnt the same as that icing on the cake of it being a girl - even harder if it is your last baby and last chance too. Are you still looking at buying the farm house sorry if i missed anything on that x
waves to all x am so bloody tired at the moment ds3 is just WOW lol
Hi charlie, it really sucks feeling like this day in day out, just wish someone could wave a magic wand and make me not care less for a dd! I have started dropping it into conversation that i am having a ds but only if someone says oooo maybe you are having a girl. I just cant stand the thought of them feeling hopeful for me.
As for the farmhouse, no we decided living in the countryside isnt for us after all, at least not until our kids are older. I am seriously contemplating putting the money towards pgd but it feels like an immense thing to go through... all the secrecy, the potential disappointment and money loss would be hard work. But i only have one more shot after this at a dd and part of me wants to do everything i can as the alternative is some kind of swaying again and keeping our fingers crossed...but i dont know if i can go through this heart ache again. I told dh that our summer holiday next year is to america or cyprus! He didnt say no way but i wander if perhaps he is just humouring me to get me through the harder days!
Hi everyone,
Massive congrats auroara, bet you are still on cloud nine :)
Hugs to Pinga, Deaks, Charlie, Babymad and anyone else in need. Would be so nice if we could be hypnotised or something into not wanting a dd as life would be so much easier and far cheaper than pgd!
Xxxx
(((hugs))) pinga, some days are like that. Hope tomorrow is a better day.
Chocolate- how are you doing? miss you and your encouraging/wise words.
Hey all
Thank you for your kind words. Feeling a bit brighter today. Sometimes I think I just need a good cry. It was one of those days yesterday. Yesterday I put some random music on and sat down to do some baby blanket crocheting... always calming... and then on came the song that we had at my dad's funeral and I was blubbing again. Decided my hormones were raging a bit yesterday. In a way it wasn't so bad because I sat there and thought about my Dad and that made me think about my sons and how he is in all of them. So that made me smile.
Anyways - better go and entertain my little chaps. Its pouring here in Melbourne. Wish I had wellies for both of them... they'd love that! Ah well... indoor day today!!
Pinga, its raining here constantly at the moment, and im sure this kind of weather makes emotions even worse. Roll on some lovely summer days for us and bright winter days for you! The crocheting does sound very calming... my problem with crocheting and knitting for that matter is i find it very difficult to solve mistakes and also my tension gets looser and looser! I guess it takes practise but im much better on a sewing machine!! Like indigo said, i hope things are brighter for you today, not too long now! X
Pinga- glad you are feeling a little better today. Like Deaks said, raining constantly here and I agree, does NOT help with the mood. Was SO grumpy yesterday, feeling I won't cope when baby born, feeling irritable and such a short fuse with the boys. I'm sure a bit of Spring sunshine would do us all good. Pg hormones don't help either. It is hard work being pg and we should be easy on ourselves. ((hugs)) to us all :HH:
Hope everyone else is having ok days.
Maybe- how is the feeding going now?
yes the rain is peeing me off - our garden is a mudpit so even when not raining its sooooo muddy i ended up with 2 loads of washing on saturday from them playing outside. We have a new build and the ground is so compacted it doesnt drain :( i WANT sun
I too am crafting for the baby - making a blanket but quilting/patchwork by hand will have to upload a pic soon x its taking me a long time but its my labour of love if that makes sense x hugs to all you lovely ladies x
Deaks - PGD is something i should have considered this time looking back in hindsight - we wouldnt have the money but if i had waited till we did.......although realistically it wouldnt have happened. I will never not want my baby girl i think i need to accept it will only be a dream though am struggling with 3 and soon will have 4!! Indy is such a lil git at the mo :S
Pinga - huge hugs for the hormonal day i hope the rain has stopped for you and you are feeling better
2monkeys is DH still behaving???
am 30wks (monday or tomorrow) depending on who you ask ;) hope the next 10wks flie by and that baby comes ooooh 38wks would be nice - can wish!
indigo - we definitely NEED sun x am sick of rain and hailstones x hope you are having a better day x x
I love all the craftyness of the smog ladies... and it sounds like quite a few of us make things as a way of having some calm zone out time. I am sorting out squares to make a patchwork quilt for ds3. One fabric i want use ers on the side of girly (why is it that multicoloured stripes that have only one stripe of pink look girly??) but i think combined with lots of blue, it will look lovely for a boy.
Charlie, it always so much easier to look back in hindsight but thats just not how reality works unfortunately is it. When your ds4 is here, the pain of not having a dd in your future will be so much less and easier to deal with. If pgd doesnt work for me, i wander whether we will try naturally again or not. My head at the moment says not but it will be so hard to be that strong when im broody and feeling like im in with a chance.
Been feeling much more at peace with it all yesterday and today and even thinking about boys names.... there are more out there that i like than i thought there were...in fact dont think my list was ever so long with ds1 or 2!!
Sorry your feeling down pinga deaks and Charlie. It gets better honest! I really havent had a bad comment about having a third boy. My mum said she wanted a turn at buying dresses for me but it wasnt to be. At 20 weeks I would have cried at that. Now I just agree it's a shame. No big deal.
Nice to hear from you tlm good luck with extension. We are looking for a three bed semi to extend so I might pick your brains later on.
Indigo - dave still causes pain on latching but it's far better than it was. I still express the majority of his food but it works so I'm happy with things as they are. In the ideal world I would breast feed exclusively but I just don't seem to be capable of that. Still he only has one bottle of formula a day so I have the milk there
I did have a bit of a better day thanks, was just telling a good friend this morning how my 'disappointment' is easing etc. But then of course this afternoon someone I haven't seen for ages saw I was pg and when I told her 'boy' she replies 'you must be disappointed this isn't a girl'. I hate having people assume how I am feeling and making such negative comments. She knows of my miscarriages so I just said, 'I am thrilled just to be pg, it is a miracle and I am just super grateful etc etc'. Hard work though! Some people!!
Hope you are having nice evenings. i'm off to bed in a min to watch a film, dh away so having some me-time.
:HH:
Indigo, gd would be so much easier if other people could just be thrilled for you whatever you are having. Leave us alone to be disappointed in private without anyone knowing but dont dare be disappointed for us or assume we are! Drives me nuts that other people have an opinion!
Had my best school friend over tonight, hardly see her as she is career woman and i am SAHM and we live a distance away from each other but she is just so wonderful and never asked me once if i knew gender or that i must be hoping for a girl. When i said i thought it was probably a boy, she just said she is definately a boy person and how exciting! And she knows NOTHING of my gd. I love people like that :)
Right im off to watch some made in chelsea as also home alone.
X
Maybe - glad feeding is getting slowly better :)
Eugh for some people and their stupid comments!! It surprises me everyday how people have to voice their opinion about everything good or bad.. My motto is that if you haven't got anything positive to say then dont say anything at all! I wish more people would live by that motto. :(
charliespy ~ I cant believe you are 30 weeks already..... your pregnancy seems to be flying by but i guess i say that to everybody lol you haven't got long to go now :)
Petal ~ how is your ds3 doing? how big is he now?
Maybebaby ~ I think you are doing SO well and I really admire you so much for still sticking with the breastfeeding! so many people would have given up by now but you're still going. So what if you have to supplement a little, a little breastmilk is still better than no breastmilk and someday you might be back to breastfeeding exclusively, you never know. I got a breast abcess with ds1 and had to supplement for a while after having had surgery to open the abcess but I stuck with the feeding and managed to breastfeed ds1 until he weaned himself off it at 11 months, so i know it's not easy sometimes.. I give you praise, you should be very proud of yourself!
I wish I was half as crafty as you ladies are!
oh and dd has started laughing this last week :D I love this age she's at now :)
Sunset - Dave smiled for the first time yesterday and started to coo. OMG he is TOO CUTE!!! Thankfully broody feelings are subsiding this week as he is too much - I think my heart will burst. I can't stop kissing him. Also helped by the fact he sleeps 11pm - 7:30am.
Petal - bless - I love it when they start laughing!! Its the cutest thing!
Sounds like lots of us are being crafty to help with GD :) I'm doing a blanket in boyish colours which is probably a dead give-away. But to be honest I probably would use the same colours for a girl as they are my fave colour combo at the mo. We'll all have to post pictures when we're finished!!
Maybe - its good to hear how content and at peace you feel. I can't wait until I'm holding my little man and then I can get rid of these stupid rollercoaster emotions. Oh and well done on persisting with the BFing. It can be such a challenge but its so good! I love it too because I find it helps shift some of my PG weight!!! :D
Its my birthday today... DH has been a sweetie - he made me a cake with DS1 yesterday (was a public holiday yesterday - ANZAC day) and he's got us tickets to see The Mousetrap. Its nice when you realise that they sometimes listen to your ramblings!!
OH dear for all the rain. I don't really mind it - we don't get many days where it rains all day here in Melbourne. I like the winter here in Melbourne.
Indigo - people say stupid things. I'm preparing myself for who will say silly things after DS3 arrives so it won't make me angry then. I know my brother will say something dumb and so will my FIL. So as long as I prepare to ignore them all will be good! :D
Deaks - ahhh how have you managed to find so many boys names you like!!! I'm in denial that I have to come up with something!
Anyway - the boys and I both have colds so lovely snotty day for my birthday :)