Ohhh, how lovely about the children! Oh, I'm so hormonal I may actually cry in a minute thinking about it all. I know there are times to come that will make me want to bang my head against the wall repeatedly & would give anything for him to be crying at someone else, but I also know that he's going to be the best thing in my life & I can't wait for all the cuddles & fun times.
conker, I thought that about not knowing - & we did have the advantage in that she did deliberately stop in the right place - but if you get a look, you can definitely see boy parts if there are boy parts to see. There's nothing ambiguous about it. Maybe the sonographer will sort of casually let you have a look without saying anything? Try asking at the beginning anyway & see if you can get a hint if you want one. The worst that can happen is you're just told no again. I hate the idea that people would 'do something' about having the 'wrong' gender, especially in this country where there's no limit on the number of children you can have. It makes me so sad & angry. On a related note, I still find it shocking that we all have, on average, about another 4 weeks to decide to 'opt out' of the pregnancy if we wanted to. I've never before appreciated just how late 24 weeks is.
KittyCat, how do you possibly still have a bag of Mars bars left from Halloween? Are you some kind of saint? You're going to be the first one back into your pre-pregnancy clothes if that's any indication! I'm marvelling at your will-power!
Everyone feel free to dig into my biscuit tin. I have my Tesco delivery tonight, too. With jam doughnuts & chocolate & biscuits, amongst other goodies! Mmmmm. I had the same thing with the ginger biscuits - I used to adore gingerbread men & ate tons of them in early pregnancy hoping to keep the sickness at bay, but now I don't know if I'll ever eat one again. The same goes for Weetabix. I ate Weetabix every morning for about 5 years & have about 40 of them still in the cupboard, but I can't bear to look at the at the moment. I was sick again yesterday, too - at over 20 weeks you'd think that it'd be over, but I know there are a few of us who are still suffering. So unfair that some women go through an entire pregnancy without so much as suspecting until they go into labour!