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Feb 2019 babies thread 7! Growing bumps and gender reveals!

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maxiflump1 · 31/08/2018 17:36

Thread 7 ladies......!!

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powkin · 22/09/2018 08:05

@MrsY87 - congratulations! That sounds so sweet.

Baby160P · 22/09/2018 08:56

@MrsY87 congratulations fantastic news

Baby160P · 22/09/2018 08:57

I definitely have pregnancy carpal tunnel, been awake half an hour and yet to feel my hands. This is very weird typing with pins and needles fingers!!!!!!

DeliberatelyGinger · 22/09/2018 09:10

I keep getting cramp in my toes and last night I got killer cramp in my calf; anyone else?

Koalatom1 · 22/09/2018 09:14

This sounds like such a negative post so apologies 🙈
I’ve been quiet (hardly chatty before I guess) but I wish I could be excited as everyone else post 20 week scan.

All is well with baby, but I’m struggling with finding out it’s boy #3 😱 all boy Mum through and through.

Never set out to have a gender, so it was a possibility but now it’s reality I’m feeling a bit...meh...discombobulated...

I worry about how people will judge me with 3 boys ☹️ Like I’ve failed in life.

Quite honestly I think a bit part is not getting what I want! Gender is uncontrollable (unless you try for one/have treatment) but I did always want at least one girl.

I swear someone’s shitting on me as plenty of people don’t care what they have, but I do feel a bit...dunno...😱😱😱😱

Yakadee · 22/09/2018 09:14

@DeliberatelyGinger - yes! I haven't had it in my calf but have had it in my toes quite a few times!!! X

Koalatom1 · 22/09/2018 09:16

Also too much to catch up on individually! Lots has happened since I retreated under a rock 🙈

Lovely to hear everyone’s news x

Lookingforadvice123 · 22/09/2018 09:41

Koalatom1 aw I totally get where you're coming from. This baby is a boy, my second and final pregnancy so I definitely won't have a girl. I'm actually super happy and excited to be having another boy, and for DS to have a little brother, as (and this is only my opinion, and of course it varies child to child) same sex siblings are often closer/easier, they play together more naturally etc. I have a sister so that's probably why that's my view!

So I'm not sad at all to be having another boy, the opposite, but it's the fact that I absolutely won't have a girl. I'm a fairly girlie girl, I like shopping, clothes, make up etc and although I like working out I hate all sports. I also have a great relationship with my mum so feel sad I won't have that mother/daughter relationship.

But honestly, things are changing now and gender stereotypes are (hopefully) becoming less and less. Boys doesn't equal smelly, shouty, sports loving children. Quite the opposite. DS is only 2.9 but I can't see him liking sports and instead he seems to be like me personality wise, a bit of a goodie two shoes, he's not rough and such a little scaredy cat. A daughter also doesn't equal a close mother/daughter relationship, in fact I know so many girls who aren't particularly close to their mums. It really does depend on the two personalities - mother and child. My mum and sister have a great relationship but my sister is so the opposite of me - she wears (IMO Wink) horrible hippy clothes which she never washes, she has dreads, piercings etc. definitely not the "mini me" image that we tend to conjure if we want a girl.

I feel the same about the judgey comments though, I haven't made it public that it's another boy yet but I'm really going to over emphasise that I'm so happy to be having two of the same, as I know there will no doubt be the odd comment. I don't think parents of all girls get that as much - well actually it's the dads that get the comments eg don't you want a boy, and for a girl it's us who get the comments.

Let yourself feel a bit disappointed as you are entitled to, but then try and move on, don't dwell on it, as there's nothing you can do. Look at all the positives: no teenage girls (I always thought I was a lovely teenager but my mum assures me I was horrible!), less of the worry about emotional bullying in school. If you had a girl after two boys, there's a chance she would be left out.

And let's face it, as if you're going to be disappointed with your beautiful baby boy when he's here.

Lookingforadvice123 · 22/09/2018 09:43

Also koalatom what helps me (and sounds really superficial, but tbh the reasons for wanting one gender or the other do tend to be superficial) is following Instagram accounts who have all boys. Eg Giovanna Fletcher, Mum of Mad Lads etc. Google Mum of Mad Lads' blog "Dontcha want a girl" and have a read. It's ace and totally flips any gender stereotypes on the head.

powkin · 22/09/2018 09:55

@DeliberatelyGinger yes I’m getting it loads!

GeriatricShmeriatric · 22/09/2018 10:11

Low magnesium is the major cause of muscle cramps. Baby is taking what it needs & leaving you deficient so up the magnesium intake Smile

Lulabell1 · 22/09/2018 11:11

Successful next sale trip wasnt busy got loads for both kids. We picked Ralphie Jordan North for our name but now DP keeps calling him baby RJ and its put me off but havent said anything yet as its the only name we agreed on!!!!

Koalatom1 · 22/09/2018 11:41

Lookingforadvice123 you are absolutely right in all that! Especially the gender stereotyping. Also the clothes I buy tend to be gender neutral and I dress my boys like little boys and not little men, and they are just the cutest!

It was definitely a shock when my second came (I did find out early as I was sure it HAD to be a girl!) and it’s taken me a long time to see the benefit of same sex siblings for my boys.

I was worried about comments but 2 same gender seem to be very common, I really don’t think it’s any great benefit having 2 different to two the same now. Both have equal benefits.

I think you’re right, throwing a different gender in now would probably unsettle the balance and no guarantee of my ideal.

NotAsGreenAsCabbageLooking · 22/09/2018 12:22

I’m having my third boy and I’m so relieved! Everyone has assumed I’d want a girl though and was quite surprised that I quite firmly didn’t want one! (I’d have come round to the idea... but still, pleased it’s another boy!)

I am 19+2 today, and have just seen my first kick 😍 been feeling them for weeks, and my other half hasn’t felt it yet (not patient enough 🙄) but didn’t think it’d be visual just yet!

Lookingforadvice123 · 22/09/2018 12:24

NotAsGreenAsCabbageLooking I actually said to DH the other day "let's have another baby so we can have three boys" Grin it won't happen as I'm done with pregnancy after this. But I love the idea. It'll be like having a little squad. Having two will be too, just a smaller squad!

NotAsGreenAsCabbageLooking · 22/09/2018 12:37

@Lookingforadvice123

My first two are older, so it feels like I am starting over with this one a bit!

Really not liking the ‘geriatric’ term they throw around in medical settings 😂

Lookingforadvice123 · 22/09/2018 12:45

I can't quite believe they still medically use the term geriatric 😂 what's wrong with plain old "over 35"?

Surprisedmom · 22/09/2018 12:47

@Koalatom1 I think it’s totally normal to be sad about never having a girl, but like everyone else has said there are pros to all boys, plus you could have ended up with a complete tom-boy of a girl anyway. When I found out I was having a boy I was thrilled, but of course it also meant letting go of dreams of a girl. I taught in an all boys secondary school for years though and it really crushed my preconceptions of boys, they were all so varied in personality (honestly some were far more effeminate than me and I’m not in-girly). Also my brothers are far closer to my mum than me or my sister and I think especially as teens and young men when boys don’t always feel they can confide in friends (which girls do more) they often turn to their mum’s for a lot of advice.

Yakadee · 22/09/2018 14:17

Been for another scan this morning and it's defo a girl! She's. Wriggler xxx

Celebelly · 22/09/2018 16:59

We are having a girl!!!!

Yakadee · 22/09/2018 17:02

@Celebelly - congratulations!!! Xxx

Katinkak8 · 22/09/2018 17:21

@koalatom1 I currently have a DD. Genuinely don't mind what we have for DC2, and won't find out, but a part of me will be a little bit sad if we don't have a DS this time because it will be our last baby and I will never be the mom of a son. However, if we do have another DD, then I hope that they will be close, like me and my sister are. And I know what I'm doing with a girl! Grin

Koalatom1 · 22/09/2018 17:23

@Notasgreenascabbahelooking oh wow you are taking it completely differently to me!

@surprisedmom it’s great to hear about the older boys really, as it’s hard to imagine what it’ll be like. It may well be fear I’m feeling 😳

Also I always wanted 3, but after my 2nd I felt very much done and closed the chapter & moved on. But deciding to have #3 I guess opened up the wound again so to speak.

Anyway, enough of my self pity! Thanks for the advice.

Congrats on the scans today too 😍

Baby160P · 22/09/2018 17:47

Funny because it seemed to be all BOYS and now it's seems to be all GIRLS.

I wonder the percentage of boys beginning Feb and and girls end....

Will ours be a pink end of Feb 🤔 can't wait to find out!!!

Yakadee · 22/09/2018 17:56

I'm due 3rd of Feb and we're having a girl. I keep hearing about girls x

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