For people that want to record what they are eating (to help be strict!)

[zanacal]

I hear people talking about rude comments all the time but I really don't recall ever having any! Many people ask me if I ever wanted a girl or asked if I was hoping for a girl when pregnant but I didn't see it as rude and was probably just honest about it and said yes - it's true afterall and, I think, a logical question to most people! I kind of have in mind that I'll get a gender scan at 16ish weeks and not even tell anybody I'm pregnant until then so I'll already know. In reality, the latest I've ever waited to break the news is 9 weeks so it's probably unlikely!!

[swish]

That is actually really good to hear, strangely I've never even thought of being honest and saying yes I would have liked a girl! I just always say,you get what you're given and that is that! Will you pay for a private gender scan?

[zanacal]

I'll certainly be tempted!! DS2 said to me today that he thought I should have another baby and make sure it's a girl this time - spooky until you realise he's been playing with a 2 year old girl at his childminder's today. DS2 really should have been a girl!

[zanacal]

PS I LOVE having 3 boys and wouldn't change that for the world. This so isn't about not wanting what I have - but you know that

[Mochagirl]

swish - we're 5 hours behind the UK here. Right now it's 5:52pm, and I just finished eating supper.

zanacal - I'm in the same situation as you. 3 kids was dh's max - he even said no when I asked him if we could try again, and only after several months of seeing how sad I was did he change his mind. Our twins share a room, and the baby and ds3 will likely share a room. We technically have 4 bedrooms, but dh uses one of the rooms as his home office (he's a professor and works from home a lot), and it was only when I promised he wouldn't give that up right away that he agreed to #4.

I don't know whether or not I'll find out the gender this time. We didn't with our twins, and I'll always regret the small twinge of sadness I experienced when they announced "It's a boy!". I did find out with ds 3 and I cried for 3 days straight, but was able to pull myself together, enjoy the rest of the pregnancy, and fall in love with him immediately when he was born. I'll probably find out since I can't imagine myself being able to wait so long without knowing. I think this time I'll have the u/s tech write it down for me to read later though - it was embarrassing breaking into tears in the office.

[Mochagirl]

Oh, and I'm always honest and tell people that I love my sons to bits but I want to "try one more time for a girl". I find in general people are very understanding. I think almost everyone who has had babies has felt that way at one point so they can relate.

[Mochagirl]

Here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 2 servings Shirataki pasta with 1/4 cup low sodium tomato sauce and a bit of parm
Snack: Gummy candies, dried apples
Supper: rice pasta with 1/4 cup low sodium tomato sauce and a bit of parm
Snack: low fat vanilla ice cream, raspberries (I haven't eaten this yet, but am about to)

Yes, a boring day - I pretty much ate the same thing for both meals. I had the kids out all afternoon and couldn't be bothered to think of anything more interesting to make for supper since I only had half an hour before dh had to leave for a baseball game. Blah. I think I need to make something yummier tomorrow.

Calories: 1066
Protein: 33g
Fat: 20.2g
Sodium: 676.3mg

[swish]

So nice to chat to you girls! I totally understand, zanacal, and of course wouldn't change a thing about whatever I end up with and I know I'll be fine as I do genuinely believe you are blessed to have them at all, I, as I'm sure you do too, know many people who can't conceive at all or have gad real difficulty. I didn't have gd with my boys as I was ecstatic with the outcome , it was only recently that I started to think I might never get my girl! If I got my girl I would have my perfect family, which to me seems therefore even less likely to happen!!!!! Weirdly ds1 constantly asks if I have a bBy in my tummy and he says he wants a sister!! I think it's because everyone we know keeps having baby girls. Lunchtime here, I'm seriously struggling with depriving myself now!!!!!

[zanacal]

Woo hoo, another 5lb off this week! That's 13.5lb in 3 weeks I've done some pretty hardcore dieting in my time but I'm sure I've never lost the best part of a stone in 3 weeks.

My food for today:

Skimmed milk for coffees

Lunch: cheese and cucumber sandwich, grapes, Organix carrot sticks
Dinner: Rice with butternut squash puree and parmesan, Mr Kipling blackberry and apple pie with squirty cream
Snack: Meringue nest with raspberries and ww vanilla yogurt

[Mochagirl]

That's awesome, zanacal! Congratulations! I was just saying to a friend of mine that now that I know I CAN stick to a strict diet like this, I might use it to get rid of the baby weight once I'm done having babies. I like the fact that my stomach is flatter than it's been since I was in my 20s....

You just reminded me that I wanted to try the squash pasta. I think I have a squash kicking around my pantry somewhere, maybe I'll put it in the oven while ds is napping.