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Dreaming - do you mind taking a peek at my u/s pics to venture a guess based on skull? My little bean refused to cooperate for a nub shot and faced my back during most of my scan. The link is in my siggie. Thank you! :HH:Quote:
Originally Posted by dreaminginoz
Oh and yes, my scan is July 1st...
Ok, girls... I am almost over this skull theory business BUT I have to say that my son has the perfect curved, girl skull. He slept with us last night and I woke up this morning with his profile on my pillow and thought... he would have fooled me for sure with this skull theory prediction! :) Just had to share. Hope everyone is having/has a nice weekend!
Babygirl4me, I'll be thinking about you tomorrow and anxious for you to post some pics! Good luck!! (Is that the right thing to say for a gender scan?) :)
yes hope all goes well with your scan babygirl4me
Thanks ladies, looks like we had 2 opposites yesterday. Maybe the 3rd time's a charm and I'll be reporting good news? :nails: Thanks for the well wishes. Hopefully I'm not leaving the u/s place in tears today but rather dancing my way out and grinning from ear to ear.
Looks like boy #7 for me.
Good luck ladies hope you all get your dg!
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Originally Posted by BabyGirl4Me
Babygirl4me, you must already know by now! xoxo
Who is the 2nd opposite we had yesterday? Besides 6blue?
I'm sorry you didn't get your girl 6blue. But congrats on another gorgeous boy. Your family will be very unique and special.
I find it really hard to understand how people can have 7 boys in a row just by chance, I really think there must be something else to it. someone should do some research into it.
Im not sure who the second opposite is?
I was thinking the same thing, bythe******... the odds of having 7 boys in a row?? That has to be off the charts as far as the odds.
Bythe******, when do you find out?
20th of June is my scan date
BabyGirl4me - i had a quick look at your skull and it is a bit blurry to be certain but for me i would lean definitely lean girl.....but you must know by now what your having!!! Cant wait to find out and hoping you have got your little girl growing :) xxx
babygirl4me!!! stalking you! :)
Its a girl! I saw her post on another thread.
Yay!!!! Thanks, bythe******!! So fun!!
So happy for you, babygirl4me!!!
Hi Ladies! Yes it is a girl! Thanks all of you soooo much for the love and support here. I have a few stories to share with all of you:
DH and I went for lunch right before the scan (a very late lunch) and there was a table with 4 girls by us! I was wondering if that was a sign that I had to have a boy to balance it out, or a sign that I was having a girl...I wasn't sure but that made me nervous. Anyway, you know how sometimes you worry that there are not enough of your DG to go around that you always have to have opposites to balance out - not true. There ARE enough boys and girls to go around no matter the family make up of other people. :)
When we went to the scan, we learned all kinds of things about u/s in general. The tech we went to teaches u/s and does high risk pg scanning. She said she doesn't buy into the skull theory at all (so Lizzie - please breathe a sigh of relief)
We also visited DH's family this weekend and one of them just had a baby boy less than 2 weeks ago, so he's brand new. Well, I forgot just how bitty and snuggly and wonderful newborn babies are. I wish all of our sways worked but even for the ones that didn't, remember the "silver lining" I guess is being able to hold and rock a tiny little newborn. They just make your heart melt. <3 Hope all is well with all of you ladies and your little beans. :HH:
Babygirl4me... thanks so much for this! I wanted some deets and was hoping I would get some. This was good!! :)
I totally hear you on the are there going to be enough girls for all of us, etc, etc. (I know this is crazy talk, but it is something we all consider-non?) Yes, plenty for everyone to go around!!!
I love that she doesn't believe in skull theory too. :) Thanks for that too!
I am having a bit of anxiety today. Just getting to the point where I need some closure I think. I really do think I am having a boy and have adjusted to that fact... I think at this point I think it is just nerves about dealing with gender disappointment if I think I am ok, but not? I don't even know what I am worked up about at this point, but so happy I have you girls to talk about my cray-zies with!
Babygirl, truly so so happy for you and your family!!! xoxo
I know what you mean about the anxiety Lizzie, I have actually been fine with the whole gender thing this whole pregnancy until the last few days. I just want to know one way or the other now. Only just over 2 weeks until I will.
congrats on your pink one BabyGirl4Me - how fantastic!!! have a blast shopping pink :)
i've been mia around here lately and looks like i have a lot to catch up on!!
hope everyone is doing well
Bythe******, sorry to hear you have been having some anxiety too. Honestly, you are like a rock! I was just thinking you are at peace with it all as I am (starting from last week) opening my box of crazy on you all.
(I am now going to make a feeble attempt to take your place as the logical, rock of the group!! :) Two weeks will be here before you know it! Try to enjoy the mystery. It will be what it will be and that little friend will steal your heart! :)
I have a 2 week work trip coming up and I will be busy. So relieved that it will distract me or I don't know how I could make it through the month.
Thanks Lizzie you are sweet, I keep reminding myself what will be will be. My boys are totally gorgeous as well so I would never be disappointed with another, just a bit disappointed if I never get to raise a girl as I'm pretty sure this is our last. I think its the not knowing that gets to me, I've never been one for surprises I just want to know either way.
Ahhhhhhh BabyGirl4Me!!!! CONGRATS!!!! that is such amazing news, so happy for you hun :) lol i love your little lunch story...isnt it funny things start to become completely irrational in your head all the way to your scan and your brain goes into gender overload! That is great you got a good tech, and i tend to agree with her about the skull theory (even tho i did guess ur bub right!) because ive seen so many opposites. Did she say anything about nub theory??
Ahhh Lizzie and bythe******, im with you an the anxious train, some days im calm and collected and other days its like a crazy google session to find that perfect girl 12wk ultrasound that looks just. like. mine. ... hopefully BabyGirl4me has us all on a winning streak and we will be announcing our DDs here soon ....
I have an amnio booked for the 20th June and im wondering if they will be able to tell me at that scan the gender...should i ask do u think? The dna results of the amnio will be able to tell me with 100% certainty 3/4 days later but i figure if they are going to do an ultrasound anyway maybe they can tell me....
Hi girls I hope you don't mind me jumping in so late :). I am due for #4 8th Nov but due to past experience the local midwives/hospital don't expect me to go past 25th Oct. I am due to have my gender scan on 13th June (not long now. Errrr :nails::nails: ). I will try to get sometime over the next couple of days to catch up on the many pages I have missed and catch up on where everyone is in their pregnancy ;)
not too late at all :) Welcome...ur scan is soo soon!! YAY something to look forward to next week before a few of us have our scans! do u have a 12wk scan posted?
I do but like all thing cyber I wouldn't be able to find it if my butt was on fire so I'll try to attach it to thisAttachment 11613
You're very welcome 3blue, sorry I have no idea about your scan I'm not great with nubs but I hope you hear pink next week.
Hello Ladies! Sorry to hear that several you are suffering the anxiety that was the story of my life last week. The good news is your scans are coming up so that not knowing will be over soon.
Lizzie - thanks for the well wishes and no, she doesn't buy into the skull theory at all. Personally, I don't think your skull looks boyish anyway. I honestly thought I was going to hear boy at my scan, but nope, it was a girl for me. Hope you get the same news.
Mumof6 - thank you for the well wishes too! I honestly haven't had any time to think about shopping yet because we've been busy but there will be time for that. I'm grateful I went with neutral clothes for DS so I can re-use the green and yellow sleepers that will no longer fit her in 3 months time anyway, lol. I love the name Ashton Charlie. It's so wonderful to hold a snuggly little newborn. I didn't want to give up the little one I held this weekend. They're so amazing and bitty. You will love him to bits when he's finally here.
Dreaminginoz - thank you for your well wishes! I do hope I have started a streak of pink here, but of course only for you ladies who swayed pink. I think we have a few blue swayers here too from earlier posts.
The tech said that at around 14 weeks she doesn't even go by the nub and just looks at what's there, so she didn't tell me girl based on the nub but on the actual parts that you could see.
They may be able to give you a guess at your amnio. It doesn't hurt to ask. The worst they'll say is no. :) I'm glad you'll know with 100% certainty after you get the results back.
I envy all of you!! I don't even have a gender scan date set yet.....I am guessing they wont give me one till around 20 weeks, boo. lol. Congrats to everyone that has found out!! I am still feeling sick, when will this end?!?! I feel like I want to eat, but when I go to, I can't eat anything. So frustrating!!!
Bit late but can I join? I'm due 3rd Nov :)
We have a son already and 2 angels so will be very relieved to get to the 20 week mark soon :)
Hi Teacup and 3blue, but sorry it's too late... haha! Just kidding! Welcome! I bet both your 20 week scans are coming up. Mine seems to be the last... ugh. 3blue, I don't do nub guesses... I have no idea. Maybe you already know, but there is another thread for nub shots, I think. You could try posting it there (if you want some guesses!) I think it's under gender prediction?
I hear you, dreaminginoz. Today I am shockingly ok with it all and not anxious. Yesterday was a different story. Who knows what tomorrow holds! :) I am sure they would take a peek at your amnio, too. Why not?
I am going to my OB tomorrow. (I had to move up my appointment 1 week since I am going out of town.) My friend was telling me to fake not being able to hear the heartbeat somehow so I could get an ultrasound and find out the gender. ha. My OB is so stingy with u/s that I know that won't happen. She farms all her patients out to a specialist for the 12 and 20 week scans and he tells me the gender. I think I will have to wait till July 1st.
Zem7, I cannot believe you are still sick. You poor thing!! Hang in there. You must be skinny! That is good. :) I am close to busting out my maternity pants. I haven't yet though. I don't know why I feel the need to fight it. ha
xoxo
welcome teacup, sorry for your losses.
Does being skinny have anything to do with MS?!?! If I would have known that I would have packed on some pounds all the other times I was pregnant!! lol. I guess you could call me skinny. I am 5 ft. (maybe 5ft 1, on a good day lol) I started out at 120 pounds and went down to 106, because of how sick I got. I am not up to 110 pounds at last apt. I am still sick as a dog. I may get one day here and there that I don't feel so bad, but most days I feel HORRABLE! The only thing I can do is lay down. That is another problem of mine, I am still wanting to sleep all the time. Sort of hard when I have 4 kids already, who are all home from school. My oldest is 7,6,3 (4in aug), and 1......Just wish it would all ease up, I don't think I ever had anything like this long in my last 4 pregnancies. Oh welcome to everyone new!!
Oh and on a happy note, I am sure now that I have been feeling the baby move. I was sitting down today and felt 5 bumps, very baby like ones (if you know what I mean by that). It has happened 2 times today!! lol So I am sure now that is what I have been feeling since about mid 13 weeks. Do you think its because this is my 5th baby?
Im sorry you are still feeling sick Zem. Are you taking any vitamins or anything. I have heard magnesium deficiency can make morning sickness worse.
oh and jealous about you feeling movement, my placenta is anterior and covering the whole front of my uterus so no movements here yet.
Welcome teacup :)
zem7 - not to early to feel baby moves at all... i think esp cause your not eating much its easier to feel movements on an empty stomach- up to last week i was hardly eating anything and could feel bub move a few times a week ( i was 13wks) but now im starting to feel better and eating more i haven't felt anything.
Lizzie - i hope July comes fast for you!! I will be having my anatomy scan at 20wks in July too, its only because of the amnio results that i will know what gender im having...actually i wont get the results of that till almost July, June 24/25th i think the results get back...so you wont be far off me :)
BabyGirl - That makes sense about the scan and the nub, cant wait to see some of your baby girl purchases!! pls post them so we can get our pink fix here!
Hi girls,
Went to my OB today and heard the heartbeat. I asked her what the heartbeat sounded like to her... she said boy. :) I know heartbeats aren't that accurate, but I am guessing my 50 year old OB can has heard lots of heartbeats in her time and probably pretty good at guessing.
One of my girlfriends came with me to the appointment, just because she is between jobs and we were going to lunch together after. It was nice to have her there and keep things in perspective. She is not even dating anyone and wants kids. She knows I wanted a girl, but any more than a brief discussion about it with her seemed self-indulgent as I sit married and pregnant.
This is good... it continues to keep me focused on I am really having a boy. I called my mom and husband and broke down a little, but doing better than the skull theory fiasco of last week. haha More than the skull theory I think I am fighting my gut feeling that it is a boy. (Another friend told me it isn't a gut feeling, its a gut fear! That made me laugh.)
Anyway, just had to share!! Thanks for listening. I do think I will ask the doc at my gender scan to put the gender in an envelope. (What do you all think of that?) I know I will still be a little disappointed and I just would be so embarrassed to shed a small tear on his table . It seems so silly in the big picture of things. As my OB said, the only thing that matters is the heartbeat is strong and steady- just as your baby sounds. It's so true. xoxo
Lizzie, so glad you got to hear a heartbeat. I'm really surprised your ob guessed based on that because I thought it was a myth about them sounding different. I think the envelope is a good idea but I think if it was me I'd be looking and guessing anyway so I may as well know then and there. I didn't cry there at the ultrasound with ds2 but I think I was in shock, I was sure he would be a girl. I think I'll be a lot more realistic this time, my motto is assume boy until you hear otherwise.
Thanks, bythe******. You are so good. Are you a professional counselor or something? :) I would hire you to discuss all my problems in a second! I am sure you are the best mom!! It surprised me too she took a guess of the gender from the heartbeat. That is what makes me think there is something to it. She always laughs off when I tell her things about boy vs. girl (like what side I ovulated on or where my placenta is), but she didn't hesitate on the heartbeat. BTW, my placenta is anterior too (didn't you say yours was?) I thought I have been feeling some movement, but now it makes me think it has been in my head. What side did you ovulate on? She couldn't tell with me. First she said right, but then she said I had something on my left ovary too so she just said inconclusive.
I wondered if you thought your 2nd would be a girl or boy. By the way, I think you are completely having a girl. There is no doubt in my mind! You are so calm, cool, and collected about everything. It has to be pink!
I thought I was having a girl the first time. So I think where I am coming from with not getting my hopes up. I guess I am just made for boys. I thought we were shoe in for girls! In addition to my husband is older and a cyclist (he goes on looong bike rides practically 5 mornings/week) he has 3 sisters and I am 1 of 3 girls. Boys where just not on my radar.
I don't think I could talk him into a 3rd. I always wanted 3, but recently have been thinking this might be it. I am 36 so not like time is completely out for me, but obviously if I did want 3 we would have to get on pretty quickly.
xoxo
ha ha no not a counsellor. I'm not sure I would make such a good one because I always feel like I should be able to fix things or make suggestions. I think the best counsellors just listen don't they. I'm not always calm and collected, just ask my DH. I think I'm pretty calm because of my christian faith, I believe God has a plan for my life and he's with me in the good and bad. I just need to trust that he knows best even when I think I do.
With our first we were team green but I just knew he was a boy. I didn't even ask when he was born (mind you they did whisk him away because he was blue with the cord around his neck twice), I would have been so shocked if he was a girl. With the second he was a shettles sway and a 5 day cut off so I was sure he'd be a girl. But in hindsite I'm glad I had another boy, its so lovely to have brothers. They get on well and have a special bond. I always wanted 3, I think 4 would be a stretch (new car, crowded house, less to go around) so even though my DH would be happy to keep going to get a girl I think this is it.
But I am only 31 so there is time but I did say I wanted to be done by 30.