Dreaming Pink Opposites Due Winter 2013/14

[GeCon]

For this one we really like Isaac but can't agree on a middle name.

We both love Isaac and would have loved to name this one Isaac, but we already gave it to our DS1 as a middle name, so have decided to keep looking for another name for DS2.

[myrainbowgirl]

Emmyroo - Ah, yes, teenage girl drama! We will be avoiding that, thank goodness! My sis has 3 boys (aged 15, 12, & 8), but they have lots of girls in their neighborhood, and she says they all drive her nuts!! It's hard to imagine being in that place, where I'm truly GLAD I didn't have girls, but it will come, I'm sure! I think the hard work with boys is in the early years, which is probably why we all want little girls! (No offense to any of you ladies with girls, I'm sure our teenage boys will give us a run for our money in their own ways!)

2lovely - Awesome exercise plan!! Great for you! I'm sure it will help with all the pregnancy aches and pains and also with weight gain.

Dream - FX for the sale of your house!!

Mabel, GeCon, Charlee, & others - Hi!

Do you UK ladies have a store called Carter's (for babies and kids)? Their clothes are excellent quality and truly adorable (even for boys). (At least the boy baby and toddler stuff is.) I always shop there and leave happy! I will probably not shop much until I see the boy bits for myself, even though 2 very reliable tests (nub and MaterniT21) say boy...may pick up something here and there before then, and will post pics if I do, but probably won't buy much till after my next scan (Sept. 30th). I will enjoy looking at all your purchases!!

I'll explain on this thread (probably not on the others) why I even have the tiniest sliver of hope that the tests could be wrong. (And I REALLY doubt that they are, but here goes.) They found a subchorionic hemorrhage on my 11-wk scan. Read somewhere recently that many times a SCH is left from a vanishing twin. At the beginning of the pregnancy, I wondered if I might be pg with twins...here are my reasons. I had o pains on the left on what I consider to be o day, but then had them on the right the next day...and I remember thinking that maybe I didn't ovulate the day before. But my temps supported that I did O the first day. Thinking I may have o'd again the following day. Anyway, that's the first thing. Next, when I got my initial progesterone and hcg numbers back, my doubling time was really fast, higher than it's ever been (31 hours) and my progesterone was double what it was with my others (49ish). I was SO wiped out at first, I really needed to take a nap most days. (And I'm a pretty high energy person.) My belly popped out by 6 weeks. Both DH and I were REALLY wondering if there might be 2 in there. At 8-wk checkup, doc didn't see another baby, but I asked her could there be another, and she said it was possible the baby was hiding, but she didn't see anything. Fast forward to my 11-wk scan...there's the SCH. At first I didn't think anything about it, till I read that online post about SCH sometimes being caused by a vanishing twin. After I read that, I looked at my scan pics...and there is something IN the black area they are calling the SCH! (Looks like a small sac, with something white in it.) I plan to take the pic to my next checkup to see if my doc thinks it could be the remains of a vanishing twin. Oh, and btw, I looked up vanishing twins also, and apparently, twins can be missed quite commonly on early scans. SO, all that to say, a vanishing twin can skew the results of MaterniT21, as it can pick up DNA from the twin that didn't make it. However, baby's nub shots are definitely more boyish, and MaterniT21 detected a Y chromosome...so even if it was twins (which we may NEVER know for sure), it is much more likely that the baby that made it is a boy. But a teeny, weeny chance it's not. Again, TEENY WEENY. I wanted to share here, because I really don't want to say it on the other threads...I know people will think I'm crazy! I am still fully preparing for boy, and expecting it. I would be completely shocked if it was anything but. In the meantime, however, I think I'll just wait to buy stuff till I see his goods.

I am actually having a very tough day today. Have improved so much in the last 2 weeks, I don't know where it came from. GD has really been kicking my butt today. I had another rant to DH and a big cry...can't say it made me feel much better, though. Ugh. Tomorrow's a new day, praying it will be better. Gotta trust that God's plan is best!

[Mabel_79]

Hi, myrainbowgirl - sorry you are having a bad day. Don't want to give you false hope but also don't count your chickens yet. Everyone said mine was the girliest 'nub' they had ever seen. Combined with how I'm carrying, the fact I'm still so sick which I wasn't with my boys etc- everyone said I was having a girl- but those boy bits at the 20 wk scan were very clear. So nubs can b wrong. Although I hear the materni21 is generally quite accurate.

I spent the morning with MIL and SIL and her very cute baby girl. It has always annoyed me how much she does/buys/dotes on the baby girl while almost ignoring the boys. She accually says things like how she hates boy clothes and was so glad she got a daughter after two boys. But then I thought- do you know what. I am lucky I don't have a girl- because then I would have this foul woman who I can't stand, drooling all over my little girl. Instead my sweet SIL (we are married to identical twin brothers), has to have her foul MIL come and stay at her house all the time. (She doesn't like her either). I actually avoid it!

Annoyingly my husband told his whole family at the gathering today how badly I was coping and how dissapointed I was- even tho I told him NOT too, he thought it would be nice for me to have their support. The very last thing I wanted was their pity- I've been trying to act so upbeat infrint of everyone as I'm generally a really smiley person and hate showing my emotions. Grrrr. Why do husbands think they know best.


I have actually spent far too much money in the last week cheering myself up with some cute boy clothes purchases, I will put links up on the other thread later.

Xx

[EmmyRoo]

Hi ladies, sorry for lack of personals, will hopefully catchup later. Just wanted to say T-1.5 hours till gender scan and final crushing of my dream! I'm half terrified of finding something wrong, half excited to see him again and struggling with that infernal glimmer of hope that he's changed gender! Argh! I'll update ASAP after.

X

[Dreamofpink]

Emmy, I'll be thinking of you. Hope everything goes well & you enjoy seeing your sweet little baby again! X x

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[EmmyRoo]

Thanks dream!

Well I'm back and it's.....110% boy! Not at all surprised and not overly upset yet, I get so nervous about everything being ok at scans now that the relief that all his bits are in the right place seems to eclipse the gender disappointment. I dare say I'll have a few wobbly days to come but at the moment I'm just glad he's ok.

One good thing is that I get to stay on this lovely forum with all of you, and I get to go to M&Co and buy those gorgeous boy clothes I spotted a couple of weeks ago!

X

[myrainbowgirl]

Congrats, Emyroo! So happy he's healthy! You sound like you're doing great...good job, mama!

[EmmyRoo]

Thanks rainbow! Here he is...

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[myrainbowgirl]

Aww, Emmy, he's gorgeous! I gotta say that my DS3 is seriously gorgeous, too. It's funny, because literally when they laid him on my chest, I said to DH, "Ooohhh...just look at him. He's beautiful!" And babies are so wrinkly and funny-looking when they're first born! But he really was. And still is. I'm sure it will be the same for your DS3. Congrats again!

[Dreamofpink]

Emmy I'm so glad everything's fine with your darling little boy! He's so adorable in the pictures, I bet you can't wait to meet him now. It will no doubt take time getting used to the idea of another little boy but you'll get there & we're here to help every step of the way!

You're a very special Mummy to be entrusted with three beautiful boys and indulge all you can in the M&Co clothes - they're totally gorgeous! We lived in Scotland when ds1 was born & we had an M&Co in town. It was fatal especially when the sales were on as I just couldn't resist the fab little outfits. They last very well too & I can't wait to dress this little boy in the dungaree sets that I still have!

Have you told your boys about their little brother? I still have a pang of guilt about the tears I had when telling my two & my Mum (who was baby-sitting) when DH & I got back from the scan. Thankfully, ds1 totally mis-understood my tears and asked if I was so happy that I was crying. I shamefully said "yes, of course. I'm so happy that the baby's okay!" He's only just begun to get the concept this year that people can be very happy & cry too. Phew!