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

[purplepoet20]

Starting to think that maybe I should wait for an 18-20wk scan. If I hear pink at 15-16wks I may get overly excited but if they say boy at the 18-20wk scan it would break my heart. It may make the GD far worse then I want to imagine. The extra waiting will be hard but atleast it would be easier to know the gender for sure.

[Mochagirl]

Yeah, sometimes I worry about that too, pp.

[purplepoet20]

Maybe instead of paying for a private scan I will save the money for a truck load of icecream... either to celebrate or to cry over!

[Hobbermittens]

Mocha, buy something! If you love it, then bu it. You can always give it to someone later if you have a boy, but if you have a girl, then you will have it!!

Nixie, I don't know anything about ruebella.... sorry!

Flava, I can't figure out how to upload a picture? The one they gave me is pretty crappy anyway, and I am afraid if I put it up everyone will say the skull looks like a girl anyway.

Auroara, I haven't added my sway. I think I will wait until I know gender for sure.

[auroara78]

I looked into a private scan again, and they are so pricey where i live!!!! It's about 125 bucks a pop, and I just don't got that money lying around for that kind of thing...so I'm def. sticking to my 19 week U/S...I'm just so glad my doc will let me do it a week early!

I talked to Mom today on the phone...she went rambling on about the girl thing agin, saying this will be her 14th grandchild, and she only has 1 granddaughter...how much she hopes it's a girl...and then in her very next breath, she goes on and on about how much having my brother meant to her, and how she's so happy she got her one boy. So...ummm? confused? I guess she's equating her feelings for having one boy as in mine having one girl, since had she two girls before my brother.

She also asked what is wrong with her children that they had so many boys and so few girls??? Umm, I don't know Mom, but why does anything have to be wrong with us to have had alot of boys? GRRR, sometimes I wonder....why do I bother? She then went on to say how my oldest sis invited her to see her granddaughter perform a starring role in a play and said she "didn't feel" like going, because my sister doesn't give her (my mom) enoguh attention, so why should she sit in hard lumpy seats watching a boring play? I wanted to say, "because she's only granddaughter you DO have Mom, and maybe you should just go to support her." But no, she won't go because she's mad at my sis currently for not calling her enough. S-I-G-H. Of course, if my brother heard all this, he would totally agree with Mom, so maybe boys are better, right?

/snicker

[auroara78]

Hobber, are you still going team green? Please tell me you have decided to find out?? I can't take the suspense! I need to know for sure!

[Hobbermittens]

Auroara, how many kids do your brother and sister have? The must have a lot if theirs plus yours will = 14! Your mom sounds like she really wants another grand daughter.... she shouldn't put all that pressure on you, though!

Yes, I am staying team green. Didn't you say you got a girl vibe for me? Just go with that. You are probably right.

[purplepoet20]

m/s has not been a problem for a few days now but I have eaten a meal every hour. And I have lost 2lbs!

[Mochagirl]

Pp - I think I've gained nearly 20 lbs since my BFP! I'm back to my pre LE diet weight now. Unfortunately, a lot of the weight has concentrated not just in my belly but in my back. Yes, I have rolls of backfat...very attractive and almost impossible to hide. I don't remember gaining weight there in any previous pregnancies.

[auroara78]

Hobber, my feelings for you keep wavering, but unfortunately, more than not, I still sense girl about you, but some days I feel...no I was wrong, it's a boy.....I can't stop hopping around on how I feel, so I'm not quite willing to call your baby a girl 100% yet, tho my feeling does lie there more than boy...but it's only a feeling! And I'm not a psychic, i'd just be willing to say that I have some intiution!

Mom reminded me today on the phone how I predicted my 2nd sister would only have boys, and I based that prediction on the fact that she reminded me so much of my aunt who only had boys. I didn't realize that I had been predicting gender for so long! I also knew, I mean just knew deep in my heart that my oldest sister would have a girl 1st, and that's the only girl there is, lol.

Yeah, we were a big family of 4 kids and all of us had kids! My oldest sis has 5, (she would have had six but she had a 13 week m/c, it was very sad), 2nd sis has 4 (all boys), brother has 2 kids, and I have 2, soon to be 3. So that's alot of grandkids! All boys but 1!

I knew DS2 was going to be a boy. I had it deep in my gut, but I really, really wanted a girl so I tried to brush off my feelings. Hubby kept saying "it's got to be a girl." I wrote in my journal at the time at 6 weeks with him, "bryen's (DH) convinced that it's a girl, but I know it's a boy." Then somewhere between 6 weeks and 18 weeks I let myself get carried away with the "what if it could be a girl"...and thus, the night before DS2's ultrasound, I was lying in bed and my whole body woudln't stop shaking. I had to ask myself what was wrong, and when I realized that I ws scared to hear boy the next day, because I knew it in my bones he was a boy, I stopped shaking, but my hope left. And I was right.

I still feel girl aboout this preg. but I don't trust myself because A) I swayed, therefore somehow my mind believes I do have a higher chance of accomplishing concieving the female gender; B) Even when I KNEW DS2 was a boy, I managed to go thru a few weeks of La-La Land where I felt there was still hope, where I kept shooting down my deep gut feeling. I am afraid with my own pregnancy that I have just outright supressed gut feeling, or not allowing it come to the surface. I would love to type here in a few weeks that my gut feeling for myself was correct, and I should trust myself more often :P