Due June/July/ August 2017

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Originally Posted by GirlieCat

Hello All, hope your holiday was good. We did not tell family about baby on Christmas. My little sister got engaged on xmas eve and was announcing on xmas plus my mom had a huge surprise for my little bro (bought him a car) so it felt like there was too much else going on and it would have stressed. We will announce within the next week or so. I keep laughing at the thought that I will be 15 weeks before our parents and family/friends find out. My sister told me there was no way I could go that long but my bump has stayed small enough that it is hideable still. Now it almost feels like a challenge.

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Why don't u announce in new years day? Start the year on such a lovely high x

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Originally Posted by GirlieCat

Hello All, hope your holiday was good. We did not tell family about baby on Christmas. My little sister got engaged on xmas eve and was announcing on xmas plus my mom had a huge surprise for my little bro (bought him a car) so it felt like there was too much else going on and it would have stressed. We will announce within the next week or so. I keep laughing at the thought that I will be 15 weeks before our parents and family/friends find out. My sister told me there was no way I could go that long but my bump has stayed small enough that it is hideable still. Now it almost feels like a challenge.

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Hahahah I love it !
Congratulations to your sister, how exciting there's going to be a wedding to plan for.

I think New Years would be awesome like AllBlue says !

Have you started feeling the baby move yet Girlie?

Ps : I'm 15 weeks 2 days, staying with my family on the coast for Christmas..
No one has guessed at all yet - winter is the perfect time to hide a bump :D

Sparkles, I haven't felt baby yet. Have you? I felt something a bit different, maybe a flutter but I just told myself it was my digestive track and not baby. Are you going to tell the family you are staying with?

We talked about telling facebook on New Year's day or the 2nd but need to tell my mom and DH parents in person first and we won't see them on NYD so we would need to tell parents in the days leading up to New Year's. I am still not very eager to tell anyone, but hubby is getting frustrated because he wants everyone to know. Even as I type this I am thinking...well maybe I can go a few more weeks before we tell...why do I feel this way?

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Originally Posted by GirlieCat

Sparkles, I haven't felt baby yet. Have you? I felt something a bit different, maybe a flutter but I just told myself it was my digestive track and not baby. Are you going to tell the family you are staying with?

We talked about telling facebook on New Year's day or the 2nd but need to tell my mom and DH parents in person first and we won't see them on NYD so we would need to tell parents in the days leading up to New Year's. I am still not very eager to tell anyone, but hubby is getting frustrated because he wants everyone to know. Even as I type this I am thinking...well maybe I can go a few more weeks before we tell...why do I feel this way?

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No I haven't felt anything either, it's not feeling real at all, I think when the movement stats it will sink in more :)
I haven't had the fluttering yet.

I really think it's because it's nice to share a secret with just you and your husband.
Once you tell people, it starts to be public property in a way lol.
My Mum and Dad know, and when we're alone my Mum tells me
"The worst thing about having a baby......the pain in natural childbirth.....your body is never the same....such and such has a new baby and is so tired".
Last night she asked, why can't we tell yet ?
And I said "Because listen to yourself, everyone has a negative story to tell, and advice about everything."
She actually said she understood, and that she didn't realise she was doing it herself, as she hated that during both her pregnancies.
People can't help themselves though :D

I can understand feeling a bit reluctant to tell. I don't like being the center of attention so I never know how to make big announcements. And the unsolicited comments/advice are the worst. For some reason everyone has an opinion on babies, even the most grossly incompetent people for the job. By that I mean, I've had random men give me advice on how to cope with childbirth and how they thought I was breastfeeding too often (are you kidding me?!).

But you're lucky, girliecat! The only thing people love to give advice on more than babies is weddings, so your sister will deflect some of that with her big day coming up! ;-)

Thank you Erin and Sparkles. I think the unwanted advice and comments definitely plays a part. I laughed at your breast feeding comment because I thought that about a friend recently but I would never dare say anything. Guess this is a good learning experience for me so I don't do the same to other moms.

Sister is probably a good 18-24 months away from the actual wedding so baby girl will hopefully be big enough to be the flower girl (even if pulled in a wagon). It will be fun to help her start planning.

So how many of us are still waiting to find out gender?

I'm 16+1 weeks now, have felt almost nothing so far with this pregnancy, but yesterday felt a lovely little squirmy feeling when I had a rest :) Nausea still hanging around though :/ Hopefully I'll have my scan in 2 weeks :D It's driving me nuts not knowing! We've finally agreed on a boys name and still going with our girl name we picked 10 years ago and have yet to use lol.

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Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys

So how many of us are still waiting to find out gender?

I'm 16+1 weeks now, have felt almost nothing so far with this pregnancy, but yesterday felt a lovely little squirmy feeling when I had a rest :) Nausea still hanging around though :/ Hopefully I'll have my scan in 2 weeks :D It's driving me nuts not knowing! We've finally agreed on a boys name and still going with our girl name we picked 10 years ago and have yet to use lol.

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I really cope u get your girl, or u will be joining my 5 boy club!
We've picked out baby's name y2day, so nice to have finally decided! We too had a girls name that we chose with our 1st pregnancy 10 years ago! But it had gotten too popular so we had a nice fresh new list of girls names that we will never now use....lol x

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I really cope u get your girl, or u will be joining my 5 boy club!
We've picked out baby's name y2day, so nice to have finally decided! We too had a girls name that we chose with our 1st pregnancy 10 years ago! But it had gotten too popular so we had a nice fresh new list of girls names that we will never now use....lol x

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Thanks All Blue - I hope it's a girl too :/ Hubby still has his heart set on the girl name but I'm thinking it's jinxed lol. Are you done with 5 kids now? I'm not sure if we'll go for #6 if this one is a boy..it's been really tough dealing with our 4 boys and feeling so crap 24/7 :(

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Thanks All Blue - I hope it's a girl too :/ Hubby still has his heart set on the girl name but I'm thinking it's jinxed lol. Are you done with 5 kids now? I'm not sure if we'll go for #6 if this one is a boy..it's been really tough dealing with our 4 boys and feeling so crap 24/7 :(

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Hubby is currently saying that the only way he will have more is if we adopt a girl...he dsnt want 6boys....adoption is not easy though!!
Do u feel different and more sick this time? Most people that do seem to have a girl, I felt exactly the same the sickness lasted the same amount of time. We didn't sway though so can't be surprised...i did mention properly trying swaying but he's in the mind set that we would only ever get boys... When i wanted another baby I always pictured another little blonde haired blue eyed boy. I just wanted another regardless x

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