December 2014 Thread #4

[miraculous2]

Stats anyone?!

Brian congratulations! Little boys are wonderful (biased)

Peace sorry you're having a pants v day.

Just sitting in the car with a napping DS and contemplating taking 40 winks myself...

12+0

Ah congrats Imbrian!

I'm okay, just shattered and want to be at home!

Congrats imbrian!

Thank you for my belated birthday wishes!

I bought my first item for the baby today a lovely soft blue bobbly blanket from aldi identical to the one I had seen in mothercare a few weeks ago for half the price. It's still very early days in my pregnancy to be buying things but if things don't go well I thought at least the cats could have a new soft blanket! Horrible thought I am trying to stay positive. Hopefully we should know more when we get our second set of results this week and go for my next scan on Friday and then hopefully all will be well!

Just had lunch with my friend and her sister in law who has the same due date as me. Was really nice :)

Now debating the hour+ drive to a family barbecue. Dont think I can be arsed!

14+6

I forgot to mention how nice the sonographer was yesterday; they did keep me waiting an hour and I joked, they must be getting the reinforced bed ready. Yep haha. But my weight was never mentioned once, all she said was "sorry to keep you waiting, we were waiting for the room that will let us see your baby best", which was very polite, I thought.

Congratulations Imbrian! I have a terrible memory, do you have several daughters?

A friend is three weeks ahead of me and has decided to find out the gender. It makes me so tempted when we talk about it. Never even considered finding out with ds.

Yes isambardo I have 4 daughters! I didn't think I was that bothered but I'm much more excited then I thought I'd be and dp is over the moon. Ended up buying some little hats and vests. Think I might go blue mad!

I'm going to need boy tips though! Apparently they wee on you!

I cannot move. Been in bed all day, feeling sluggish and with headache. Back to work tomorrow so it's a complete waste of a one-day weekend. Trying not to feel guilty about achieving nothing. Ugh... I hate days like this!

Thankfully nobody has bought us anything for the babies yet - we have still to move house so I don't want anything, purely for practical reasons. My mum has started knitting, which is lovely.

And nothing has appeared on Facebook - most people are good about that but a couple were indiscreet in other ways when it was still too soon and apologised/ did their best to contain it. I guess if I or others start posting stuff from my Japan trip it will become obvious, but at 18-21 weeks I won't mind so much - it will be obvious to anyone who sees me by then.

DH has gone for a very long walk. I think I've bored him to death today (apart from dtd - what more does he want?!). I'm boring myself now.

Imbrian, that's lovely.

Secretly I've always wished for boys but that's exactly why I don't want to find out until the glorious rush of delivery , when I'll be just ecstatic that they're here.

Hi, I'm new to this, I'm currently 13 weeks pregnant... Very excited.... Eeek!!!

My god damn nipples hurt so bad!!! Argh!

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Ooh Brian how lovey! I have 3 already, so any advice just ask! You get quite into football in a house full of men - mine haven't put bets on the score tonight, but on how many minutes I ll stay awake for! Many congrats and welcome Keloids!

Are people opting to find out what they're having? We can't decide if we want to know or not.

We weren't sure at first Betty - quite liked the idea of a surprise. Now we ve started looking at baby stuff, I think I need to know lol! It would be really hard buying everything cream or white - it would feel a bit of a waste, if you know what I mean!

Welcome keloids interesting name :)

We are finding out, one was a surprise, two a shock so don't want any more surprises lol only a month to go!

Congrats on the blue team so far :) be interesting to see what's 'popular'

Miraculous I didn't find out with one of the girls and I hated not knowing. We're only telling close family what baby is so hopefully well still get to suprise some people.

Htb don't worry I'm sure I'll be asking, I teach 5 year old boys but no experience at all with baby ones as no boys in family.

We're having a surprise although it is so tempting to find out!

Got our 20 wk scan date through yesterday, 16th July, brilliant timing as we're going to see my family for the weekend (they live 400 miles away) on the 17th, so it'll be fantastic to show them the 20 wk pics. If we can, I think we're finding out girl/boy, we don't really mind either way... (although we usually use "he" as a pronoun, so it'll be nice to find out!)

15+3 (doesn't time fly!)

We're also having a surprise. This is our first and there aren't many surprises left in this world so wanted to make sure this was. May find out with our next one though.

I was thinking I wanted a surprise, then went on my 1st shopping trip looking at baby clothes with my mum, and now not so sure!

I will definitely find out, am too excited and too keen not to! But also need to narrow down the naming debates to one sex or we'll never find one in time.

15+3

Congrats imbrian
We'll be also finding out, it will still be a surprise, just an earlier one on 25th July

Good morning all! It's our first but we are going to find out because I would like to know- I'm too curious! We have our 20 week scan on 18th July and thorn interestingly on the Sunday we have the baby's heart scan at St George's hospital to check if s/he has my husband's congenital heart disease.

I'm also still pinching myself at times and time does fly in a sort of funny way. Once I hit 13-14 weeks I started feeling much more like my normal self. Still early bed times but not the constant exhaustion as before. You do start blooming as they you you will so if you're not there yet, it will get better soon.

15+1

We want to know (18th July for us)
A) be much easier to start buying clothes etc (I have a hatred from cream/beige/neutral sort of colours so don't want to end up having to buy them
b) we figure that on the day of birth there will be a lot going on anyway and would rather know already
ç) if it's a boy we'd have to think of some names

I've always kinda wanted girls (not that I'd be too upset with a boy though). Both me abd DH keep slipping up and saying "she" though!

15 weeks exactly today :)

Hi folks,

Congrats Brian, a wee boy! Will this be your family completed now?

I've had a cracker of a week, driving to Birmingham and back in a tiny panda car with a giant husband and dog (I'm doing all the driving as dh doesn't 'do' manual cars) getting sunburnt while painting house in Birmingham, discovering gas leak after two day headache! Throwing up on myself and dh due plastic bag with holes in on way to airport before five hour flight. Dh took it quite well I thought. Proud of him. We did not smell good despite covering ourselves in free perfume. I've only been able to drink diet irn bru for months but have now gone off it as it looks and tastes the same in both directions (sorry - was the tmi?)

I've not bought any clothes yet but could be encouraged too if everyone else is? The SNP are selling bibs with 'future first minister' on them - cutest thing ever!

Honestly, I struggle to understand why people would not want to know the sex - having to push a baby the size of a watermelon out of a small hole is enough of a surprise for me.