Ladies due in Sept/Oct/Nov 2012, gather here!

[purplepoet20]

My kids keep me busy and help the time pass while their daddy is away but some times i need a short break but then i miss them. lol My due date is September 18. I also feel like the weeks are going by slow now that I really wanna know what i'm having. My husband keeps going back and forth on if he wants to get an early scan like we did with our last 2. I done a bunch of the old wives tales like i did with my last 2 and they all say boy. (red cabbage, needle and thread test, and ring test) so now i just need to sit back and wait until but with the weekend all most and the next 2 weekends booked hopefully it will go by fast. Im hoping to find out the sex as a late anniversary gift of being with my hubby or my 3rd daughters 3rd birthday. lol

My brother lives in WV and he fixes computers for the Military. His wife is home most of the time homeschooling soon to be 2 kids (#3 is only 3). She also has a photo business. She does playdates and church. She keeps herself busy when he is away but sometimes you can tell she is dying for a day away. Military Wives have it hard.

[purplepoet20]

Auroara - I wonder if I can raise a girl as well. I have always played sports, built tree houses, raced bikes, and so many boyish things. But then I think about the type of people my boys are so far. DS1 is a lot like me and loves all things boyish. DS2 is active but he has a sweet side and likes to cook, play dolls, and dance. A girl or even another boy will fit nicely because I will love and except whomever my child is (gender or personality).


I have still been very tired and lazy. I slept in about 2hrs later then normal and woke up to 2 little monkeys jumping on my bed. The m/s is getting better but it comes and goes with certain foods. I hate this waiting game!

[Mochagirl]

Hi ladies. I am having sooooo much trouble waiting until I can get a gender scan. I'm spending ALL my time nubsessing - looking at other nub shots online and comparing them to mine. I need to just stop driving myself crazy! I feel like 20 weeks is EONS away, so I seriously doubt I'll wait that long. I keep looking at my calendar to find an earlier time I can go to the private place, though, and I really don't think I can manage it until 18 weeks, if even then. That's over a month away!!! Sometimes I wish I'd never heard of a nub and I would just be living in blissful ignorance thinking there was no way to tell the gender until 20 weeks. I don't remember being this impatient with my other kids - well, we didn't find out the gender with my twins at all, but even with ds3 who I swayed with (unsuccessfully), I remember being anxious but not quite this impatient. I really need a hobby!

[Hobbermittens]

Auroara, I never wanted girls. I am a huge tomboy, and I always wanted to be a boy mom. I have actually enjoyed having girls more than I expected to. I like cooking and so do they, and DD1 is really into crafts like me, too. I bet you will surprise yourself at how much you have to offer a daughter!

[auroara78]

Thank you PurplePoet & Hobbermittens for your amazing words

I don't know why I get this way sometimes, I get so nervous about the idea of a "new" or "different" thing in my life.

My DS1 and I love to bake cookies together, so I could totally do that with a girl as well. I know if I did have a girl I would be tickled beyond belief, and I would make it work, but sometimes it seems so surreal that it might happen to me...

Mocha, I thought I would be a ton more anxious than I am, I think I was more anxious with DS2, but I guess I am really enjoying the idea of having "hope" still...that knowing for sure (if it's a boy) would kill all the hope. Some days I am bursting to know, but that's when I really try hard to distract myself, usually video games work

[Flava]

hobber- you need to ell me how you guys cook together. My girls don't want to help or just make a big mess keeping me back so i get angry and better do it myself.

aurora- sometimes I also think the same wth I would do with a boy?? Me and my DD1 we play a online game lol and we play with all the girls on the wii and game **** games sometimes.
They all play together with their toys nothing ruff or hitting or jumping of thing (omg I saw boys jumping from so high on the playground i get a heart attack ) And I think it's just easy because they are all girls.
None of us is in to sport here at all! Not even DH we never watch or do any sport .We had bikes but right now not even have that because it's so hot here most of the time we can't go out to bike anyway.
So what if I would get a boy and he wants to do all this boyish stuff??
I don't know...guess we just grow to it with the baby , right?
But I sure wish this baby it's my boy.can't change nothing now and im still so scared from a m/c so really Im just hoping for a sticky baby for now.

[Flava]

Mocha you have to stop looking at nub pic girl! Just because we don't know what is our baby it is what it is already!
I also like the idea of hoping so at least till we don't find out we have our dream!
I sure hope it's your girl. What if you tell them you are 18 weeks at 16 ? Then you get a appt. for sure!

[Hobbermittens]

Flava, my DD1 loves to help with dinner. She cuts stuff up, makes certain things on her own, and loves to "make us dinner"--last time she made us dinner we had oatmeal, oranges and top ramen... but she made it all on her own!

Mocha, I am dreading finding out gender--I feel totally opposite of you! I am trying to figure out how I can get through my 12 wk scan (next Monday--EEK!) without looking at the screen. I am afraid of accidentally seeing a nub or being able to see by the skull shape what gender the baby is. Have you found a place that will give you a scan before 16 weeks?

[Flava]

ahh hobber you are luckyyyyyy! My DD1 says she want to learn how to cook bla bla. But she is not doing it.Or they are so scared from the stove want's to stir the food a mile away. I still hoping one of them start making some food here lol

I also don't want to find out because i never had a surprise.But DH wants to so well see what happens. Fist I have to make it there.All seems very far away yet.

[Mochagirl]

I know you ladies are right - I just need to stop obsessing. The fact is, it's going to be so logistically difficult to get to an early scan that I'm not even sure it's going to happen at all. It's just impossible to coordinate it with the different school and preschool pickup times on a weekday, and I know dh won't approve of an early scan, so doing it on a weekend probably won't work either.

I need to try to adopt your attitude, auroara. I should enjoy this time of hope that I might have a daughter. I just feel like if it's a boy I want to start the process of accepting that I'll never have a daughter. Every time I get a girl guess here, on IG and elsewhere, my heart races, and every time I get a boy guess my heart drops. I think it would have been a lot easier if I didn't have a nub shot to obsess over.