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Christi - you had a fantastic sway and this special perfect little man was meant to join your family! Congrats onapp the healthy baby and as you said, you will love him so much when he is here.
So ladies I'm really torn. I'm 90% sure this baby is a boy (gut feeling, dreams, I gained a lb around ovulation, etc) and I *think* I'm ok with that. Although my family will certainly say lots of mean comments that will hurt me, but I'm trying to mentally prepare every day for what that will feel like. So DH's sister conceived a baby with downs syndrome and it is honestly my husband's #1 fear (please don't judge, I realize he's being insensitive but these are his feelings). DH is obsessed with me getting Maternit21 because he keeps going back to the fact that only 87% of DS is caught by NT scans/quad screening and he doesn't like those odds. I'm pretty sure I'm getting Maternit21 at my appointment Monday (at 10 weeks exactly) at DH's insistence.
SO, I'm honestly terrified to hear the gender results. I feel like it's definitely a boy and I will be OK, but now I'm paranoid it will send me into a spiral of unhappiness. I get that I can get the test and not hear the gender, but I feel stupid doing the test and not finding out! For ladies with GD in the past/currently - is it easier to find out sooner? I'm positive we won't wait until birth because I had PPD and I really don't want to experience PPD and GD at the same time. I want at least 20 weeks to come to terms with DS2 and bond with him and get excited for him. So in my shoes WWYD ? Assuming you knew it was probably an opposite - would you find out at 12 weeks (10 weeks blood draw, then 2 weeks to find out), or wait until 20 weeks or possibly do an elective scan at 14/15 weeks ?
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Gorgeous picture! Bluebonnet I would find out as early as possible, plus with the blood test there is no room for those maybe the ultrasound technician was wrong thoughts or baby not cooperating.
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Edited because blood showed up instead of ultrasound before technician. Ugh typing on my phone.
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Junie - I hadn't even thought about the thought of baby not cooperating at 14/15 weeks or tech being wrong! It would probably drive me nuts if we decided to find out at 14 weeks and then the baby wouldn't cooperate and I had to drag the whole thing out until 20 weeks. Definitely smart to consider that as a possibility!
Christi - how were the results delivered to you? I have this weird fear that my doctor's nurse is going to call me in the middle of the day while I'm at work or with DS and just tell me "You have a baby boy!" and that it might not be a good time to find out.
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Bluebonnet I went for private gender scan at 16 with DS4 but a bad shot made me believe it was wrong so I went for another and confirmed it was a boy. I liked finding out early as I cried a little pulled myself together and then went shopping for him to bond, we also chose his name and tbh when he arrived I wasn't upset that he was a boy at all. He was a premie and had to go to nicu so that put everything into prospective for me.
Im going to have a private scan at 15+1 with this one on Christmas eve in the hope we may see gender, but if not I will be ok. And I know I will be ok if its another boy, hubby is already calling him George...lol!
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Hi ladies, I thought I would pop on and say hi. I'm 10 weeks and swayed for a girl. I have two amazing sons. Reading your posts I fully relate to how you all feel with the whole unknown factor! I have convinced myself I'm having another boy. So far symptoms are the same and I truly don't feel I could be so lucky to get what I want! I'm doubting my sway and my choice to TTC the month I did. Must accept and move on. The nausea is so not fun!!
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Welcome Sarah!
Happy...what a pack of heartbreakers you have there!! Such handsome boys!
Hang in there Christi...time will help and sounds like your DH is a winner too!
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Welcome Sarah! My pregnancy is identical to my pregnancy with DS as well. Definitely easy for me to be certain this is a boy too. In some ways in glad my symptoms are the same so it doesn't give me any false hope! :)
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Welcome Sarah! I'm also going forward as if this baby is a boy. We're only thinking about boy names, etc. If it is a girl I will be very pleasantly surprised!!
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Hi ladies, I got my BFP today :))) I will be due around the 27th of August 2015.
I have mixed emotions on how I feel about my sway now the fact I'm actually pregnant. Hoping I did enough to get my girl but it's a bit late to do anything else now. Did anybody else feel like this? With my two boys I was just blissfully happy without GD anywhere near my thoughts!
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Christi, I'm sorry you didn't get your girl... your sway looked really great so this little man is definitely just meant to be. I felt so much disappointment when my second baby was another boy. Looking back, I felt so foolish. I wouldn't trade him for the most beautiful little girl in the whole world. You really get the little baby that's meant to join your family, I truly believe that. *hugs* to you... I promise that all thoughts of gender disappointment completely disappear once you hold that beautiful new baby in your arms!
Welcome, Sarah and Ugee :)
I am 10 1/2 weeks now... I've had one very real, vivid dream that this baby is a girl which is really throwing me for a loop... and the heart rate has been HIGH up in the 170s and 180s (my boys were never that high) so that old wives' tale has me wondering now... my gut feeling is that mine is another boy, though, and I'm wholeheartedly thinking boy, but will be shocked and pleasantly surprised if we actually get a girl. I'll be having the Harmony blood test drawn next week so I should know in just a couple weeks... I just want to know. I hate the NOT knowing part.
