Uk ladies

Isn't it funny how something as simple as a picture like this can bring all those feelings back.


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I know, I am soo bad at staring at baby boys when I'm out its like they are this whole other being that seems so different to me lol
Mrs I I bet your dss would do it no problem he'll probably be all chuffed at his ickle baby sis :diaper: :)

It's not even just babies for me tbh I find myself watching the little girls pushing their dolls to preschool in toy prams and riding their bikes with the baskets, dolls seats and ribbons ********* off the handle bars.


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Oh it's torture :(

Don't I just know it. Sigh.


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Yes it's not always just pics that set us off! I was at a carnival yesterday and little girls in their adorable sundresses and then today I was at my nieces birthday party and all the little girls party dresses and hair bands! Sooo cute! Sets me off again even when I'm feeling fine! Hopefully one day we will all have our DG!

I had to get an early night last night, set me right off! Feel a bit better today. I hate that I can't just be satisfied with what I do have. And I hate that I have to work so hard to get something that other people don't even have to think about.


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Just heard my friend is having a boy after 4 girls. They def didn't sway, they had decided not to have any more and she'd enrolled in college and everything, then found herself pregnant. I'm happy for her but so jealous. I always feel like hearing stories like this means I won't get my GD and odds will be against me. Like on Facebook I admin a parenting group. 2 of us have 4 boys, one has 3 and is preg. I know she will have a girl because out of a small group of 8 people there can't be 3 of us who all have 4 boys.


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That's exactly how I feel, I know someone due around the time I was, she has 3 girls and I just know she will get a boy. I feel like the only boys I'll ever have are my dogs :(

Ha ha even all our pets are boys.
I think it's nice to see someone who wants what you have got, and remember that there are people trying just as hard as you but the opposite way round on these sites.



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Definitely. I was actually surprised at how many people wanted all one gender. I guess because my ideal is a mix I just assumed that's what everyone wanted.
Oh and I have a lady doggie too, she keeps the others in line lol

I torture myself daily looking at other people's family make up (especially if they have a pp) and wonder how they did it so easily :( I don't know anyone in RL with 2 boys (apart from my DH who is part of just 2 boys but that doesn't really count lol) and I do worry that I'm somehow going to be ostracised by the girl mums (even the ones that have a boy as well as a girl) that I grew up with and I made whilst pg whith DS1 :(
Just yesterday at work a colleague (an older man who has 2 girls himself) asked if I was having a girl, to which I said 'no baby is a boy' and gave a big smile and all he said was 'are you ok with that?' WTF is wrong with people? I said of course we were happy. My DH thinks that my GD is all in my head (and maybe he doesn't get the same sort of comments as a man) but he really doesn't get how much is perpetuated by other people's/ society's fascination with gender :( xx

I don't think it's as bad for a man (with other peoples comments) when you get a 2nd boy because everyone seems to think that men want boys. I know more people who's hubby's have had the "oh poor you, you going to try again?" When they have 2 girls. Society thinks you have to want the same gender as yourself, and that you should have a pp so you can have 1 child for each partner to be close to and so gender specific activities. I do find now we are have 4 people have actually started asking DH if we will try again for a girl. But in the early days it was like "go you! 2 boys, well done mate!" But he has wanted a girl since before I did.


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Imagine his shock if your said "no we wanted a girl so putting this boy up for adoption!!" idiots. Hes your baby and that makes him perfect!!!
When we were told at 12 weeks number 4 looked like a boy i was saying to dh, how hard can it be to get one girl!? Just 1. When people all around me seem to get girls so easily? I was having internal tantrums at the unfairness of it all. However getting told girl is so much less believable than being told boy! I'm still anxious about my 20 week scan in case they find a dangle ;) xx
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Ha ha yeah that would be an awesome answer to stupid questions like that!


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My dh really wanted a girl. He has 4 sons including our 3. At gender scan for our second he'd bought a pair of pink booties as a surprise. When we got in the car after the scan he gave me them and said "won't need these now" looking a bit sad. First time i realised he wanted a girl as much as me. We always imagined 2 kids. He agreed to ig sway for our 3rd. The ups and downs of swaying, douching, timing and 2 losses etc brought us closer. Although he didn't believe it would work. Ds3 is the light of his life, he's been totally hands on with him. Getting him to agree to #4 was a bit of a rollercoaster. He's 40 this year and had his 1st at 22. He did it for me. And i love him for that. I felt very torn about it but knew I'd regret not having our 4th. I got cold feet wondering if it was a selfish decision that would put too many financial pressure on us, and the boys missing out when we already have 3 lovely boys. Having a girl actually changed everything. It shouldn't but i feel now it will be so good for the boys to have a girl in the house. The financial restraints are almost offset by giving them a different gender sibling. Makes me sad to think I'd feel differently initially had it been a boy. Although that would be gone once he had been born. It stops being all about gender once they arrive because they're your child and that's all that matters and is separate from that longing for a girl xx
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Mrs I, you have my feelings down to a T
My dh had to put up with my IG sway too and now I'm telling him u can't have this you should have that again lol

It's so nice to hear that your dh had 4 boys then a girl Mrs I. I struggle to get mine to believe it's possible. Maybe that's a good thing though, because he is ALWAYS wrong. Every single time he thought we would have a girl, and up until being told "it's a boy" each time he would use the name we had picked out for a girl and says "when SHE is here" maybe if he thinks we will have a boy he will be wrong again and we will finally have his girl.
It's so weird it was his desire for a girl that really made me want one, and now I can't make him understand my desire, it's like his accepted that's how it's going to be and moved on, and now he has accepted it he can't understand why I haven't. And why I'd be willing to try all this swaying stuff when I won't happen.

My walk today almost killed me again, I usually walk around my village or to the next village, well today I decided to walk out of the village the opposite way to usual and go into the next village in that direction. Lots of little hills, finishing in a massive hill. Then on the way back I got stuck behind a couple with a little (around 2 year old) girl, so walking very slowly. Couldn't help thinking why did it have to be a girl and not a boy. With her big blue eyes, curly blonde hair, little summer dress, frilly white socks and proper little shoes.
I walked so hard in the way home I got a stitch lol


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Motherofboys I think men can compartmentalise in a way we can't. Dh will admit to wanting a girl but if we didn't have one then so be it. No emotion, no upset, just (infuriating) calm. Although he tries to get where my need comes from he can only get it on a basic level as he didn't allow himself to imagine it could ever happen. However, when he found out this was a girl he was completely speechless .... As in "does not compute" type shut down. I got it on video and he watched it a load of times. He said it was like watching someone else, almost like an out of body experience ;)

Well done on your walking, I just can't do hills!! I bet seeing that little girl motivated you tho xx


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I dunno if the universe put her in my path to spur me on or taunt me LOL
That is so...funny/ cute/ priceless the way your dh reacted to hearing girl. Perhaps you are right, and he can separate those feelings. Like he told me before our scan with ds4 he was scared in case it was another boy. But once it was over with and we knew he was all excited and going on about what it would be like with 4 boys. I guess like when we say we are not sad for the child we do get, but we are sad for the child we don't get.


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I'm 20 weeks tomorrow! Since the sickness eased it's flying in xx
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Oh wow exciting! I always find the middle bit (which is my favourite, no sickness, manageable sized bump, kicks and wriggles) seems to go the quickest.


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Ooh big scan soon! Exciting! Halfway there lol

Erm, OMG, today I became a dream member. Been meaning to for forever but always on my phone (as I am again now) so waited till I was on laptop. Anyway I finally looked at the link to meal ideas, and also found the myth of magic food thread, and the grade A and B etc foods. Did not realise just how much we could actually eat on the LE diet. I know what the limits for the day are, but was thinking all the 'nice' things were no nos. Pop Tarts are a grade A food! Pop Tarts people!!
It's like all the things I read when first researching went out my head and I was thinking I had to live on just low nutrient veg, and things like rice and pasta.
I'm so glad I finally did the dream member. Feeling more positive about the diet.
Getting bored of my walking roots now so have to find something else to fit in with it.


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Mob your boys are gorgeous! Can I have one lol

Swap ya?? Lol
Thank you, I'm a teeny bit biased when it comes to my boys, as I'm sure all parents are.


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:kiss:Just looking at the Lil ones chubby cheeks :)
lol sooooooo cute !!

Oh I know, I do love a bit of baby chub.


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Finally catching up on OBEM! Watching the first episode now lol


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Awwww I wish we had the option to record so I could catch up with you!! Enjoy xx

We've got sky plus, but I also just got a on demand box thing free from sky so I can get 4oD and iPlayer etc through the sky box.
The look on that Dads fave when he saw his wife had had a boy was brilliant.


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I think that regarding timing eating and exercising, above all else please remember your body's needs. On paper, of course not eating before and after exercising and even existing on nothing but air and cranberries sounds great for TTC a girl, but you guys need to continue functioning and living your life here.

I think it is perfectly fine to eat something before exercise, or after exercise. Would probably not eat before AND after exercise. Or during - a couple people were using the glucose pouches for energy while exercising and that kind of defeats the purpose of it. :)

I saw my friends daughter today. Oh she was so tiny and cute. I can't believe any of my boys were ever that small, even ds4 who is only 8 months. He looked like a giant next to her. Had a little cuddle. My friend told me she'd had a hard time adjusting to the fact she had 2 girls and that she'd never have a son, but she'll just have to hold out for grandsons. Her fiancé (who I can't say I'm too fond of) was like "so 4 boys hey? How's that working out for you? All boys?!" My reply was "much the same as all girls I suppose" he also asked me if my eldest was "doing his duty and his share as big brother" as an 8 year old I feel his duty is to be happy, play, occasionally fight with his brothers or push his luck with me. He might feed ds4 or pass me a packet of wipes or something now and then but that's about as far as 'his fair share' goes.
I stopped on the way to get my friend a present as the one I'd intended to get her I could to get hold of in the end. Standing in tesco, surrounded by baby girls clothes and completely spoilt for choice but knowing it wasn't for me and I'd have to choose just one thing, that I would then give away, was hard.



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I've bought so many little girl dresses over the years for gifts. It sucks. Her df sounds like a tool!! Xx
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Last time I bought anything for a baby girl was her first daughter. I was pregnant with ds3 and still felt that one day it would be me and it wasn't that hard.

And yeah her df is. Lol



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You know I don't think I'm even O-ing yet. I've had a couple of almost positive opk but had negatives in between. Cp all over the place. Temps are up and down. I hate not knowing.


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Oh it's so hard. I have a bag of baby boy clothes I was positive I would get using. I have them 8/9 years :( I remember my cousin having her little boy and I didn't have much money at the time so I took something out of my bag of baby boy stuff to give to her, I was ok until I actually handed it over...

I've got a few things like toys and clothes my nan bought for my niece and asked me to pass in but her mum wouldn't accept them as they hadn't come through my brother (yeah, he gets a daughter and can't be bothered to be in her life) and I didn't want to upset my nan so kept them and thought at least one of her great grandchildren would have them and I'd say my niece out grew them and passed them down. But now my nan isn't here any more I really can not bare to part with them.


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Have you seen about that Josie Cunningham, the one who was in all the papers for having a boob job on nhs. She is smoking 20 a day and drinking all through her pregnancy and is apparently saying that she only kept it cos a psychic told her it was a girl but it's s 3rd boy so she started drinking and smoking again. At first I was out raged. But as I read through it I started to sympathise. I do not agree with what she is doing one bit, but the way she talks of being told she was having a girl and picturing the pink room and dresses and then finding out she wasn't and not being able to think straight. I know a lot if that rings true for many of us. I think nice baby is here and she falls in love with him she will regret her choices in pregnancy.


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This is the same girl who was going to have an abortion so she could be on big brother isn't it? I will keep my thoughts to myself on that one :nono: