I feel guilty about this. When we were told this morning that we're having a boy, I cried because I was so happy...but also partly because I was really hoping for a girl. Mostly because I was just SO in love with the name we had picked (& we still aren't 100% on a boys name). I definitely have to change my expectations for things...but I'm so looking forward to my first baby boy snuggles & the crazy adventure that awaits me.
I really wanted a girl, too. I've wanted to name a girl after my great-grandma since I was 16 and now probably won't be able to.
DS 9/2/13 was a BFP from an IUI! Triplets due 6/29/16 also from an IUI!
I actually am excited for my belly button to even out. Im chubby but I usually have most my chub in my stomach area. Now that I am pregnant, I have a lower pooch and an upper pooch and its just completely unfortunate and not pretty. So I am hoping by week 22 when the uterus moves up more that the belly button will pop out more and my fat blob will become one big belly. Whenever people stare at what they assume is my bump right now I just shake my head and think "Not baby. Burritos. Look lower."
Thanks for the support ladies. I was explaining to dh why I'm such a basket case about it, but he just doesn't get it. "It's no big deal. It's you're house, just be yourself." Ummm...
That's wayyyy easier said than done. My SILs drive me insane just talking to them from 1200 miles away. One of them visited after our first was born, stayed a week, and I almost lost it multiple times with her nonsense. You ARE a saint for letting her stay with you.
@DeePaddy24 when we found out DS2 was a boy I was sad for a little while too. I think it's completely normal.
I've let my kids watch way too much TV the last few days. I'm exhausted and have had a headache for over a week that I can't get rid of. I don't know what else to try to fix it.
Ooooo I have one: I'm so nervous for my belly button to start sticking out! I have this weird thing where I hate belly buttons. I don't want to look at them or touch them and I freak out if anything touches mine!
my belly button is unnaturally deep so I kinda like the idea of it sticking out a little. Maybe create some balance.
Yeah- I feel like once my belly button pops out I'll look more pregnant and less like I have a fat roll above my belly button and a fat roll below my belly button!
H and I are team green. We had our first ultrasound on Monday and told the tech we didn't want to know the sex. She printed off some pictures and gave them to us on a CD for us to take home.
Confession: As soon as I got home I dissected each ultrasound picture to see if maybe she accidentally got a shot of baby's anatomy where I could make out if it was a boy or girl. I then also tried to determine which side the placenta was on, and then quickly realized I had no idea what the fack I was looking for.
I did, however, refrain from posting/asking a bunch of internet strangers for guesses. So that's a win. I will honestly be overjoyed either way, but I'm curious dammit! Finding out at delivery will just be an added surprise!
I did the same thing. Tricky tech only gave us pictures that were blurry at the gential area. Rude lady, taking me all serious about not wanting to know gender.
My FFFC confession-I stupid like the Justin Bieber song Love Yourself. Like, sing along to it, listen to it far too often like it. I have quoted it in real life. "My mama dont like you and she likes everyone".
Haters gonna hate.
To the bold...I actually really love his new album! The guy makes it so hard to hate him when he puts out good music.
Ugh. I don't know why I'm in a quote box when I'm not quoting anyone?! This app is the worst.
@AmberLiz99 My MIL has been living with us for the past year while she gets her SS/disability sorted out. Trust me when I say I know how you're feeling! And on the bright side, two months will be gone before you know it. When she drives you nuts, come here and vent to us
I feel guilty about this. When we were told this morning that we're having a boy, I cried because I was so happy...but also partly because I was really hoping for a girl. Mostly because I was just SO in love with the name we had picked (& we still aren't 100% on a boys name). I definitely have to change my expectations for things...but I'm so looking forward to my first baby boy snuggles & the crazy adventure that awaits me.
I really wanted a girl, too. I've wanted to name a girl after my great-grandma since I was 16 and now probably won't be able to.
I've always wanted to honor my late grandfather (and my dad). It makes me sad that the odds are pretty good I won't be able to. We're done after this and it seems like June '16 has a ton of team blues!
June 2016 April Siggy Challenge: Reasons my kid is crying
Ugh. I don't know why I'm in a quote box when I'm not quoting anyone?! This app is the worst.
@AmberLiz99 My MIL has been living with us for the past year while she gets her SS/disability sorted out. Trust me when I say I know how you're feeling! And on the bright side, two months will be gone before you know it. When she drives you nuts, come here and vent to us
A year! You are better than me, haha. I set a limit of two months as soon as dh brought up the idea of her coming here.
I'm team green. The tech only gave me pics of the head/upper body. Definitely can't see it!!
my FFFC - I'm hosting some friends for a play date at our house this weekend. First time I've ever had DD's friends over (we usually have them out or at one of the other moms houses). I'm dreading it. Cleaning, prep, snacks... Maybe if I'm bad at it they won't expect me to host again??
@hockeyfan42 - You could always have names for a boy and girl that honor them in some way... even if its not obvious?
His name was Paul. The girl variations are kind of.....bad, haha.
My husband never made the connection that his dad was named after his grandparents... FIL Paul Edward...FIL parents: Pauline and Edward. Maybe you can change a middle name?
Fyi your belly button might not pop. Mine never has
@AmberLiz99 I totally get it. Whenever my FIL comes over he basically acts like a frat boy and trashes our house. I really don't want him over. Ever. But he's lonely and old-ish so I continue to invite him for BRIEF stays but even overnights I feel anxious about for ages in advance. GOOD LUCK.
All of you Team Green ladies...kudos to you, I have zero patience for those things and my Type A personality couldn't handle not knowing. @mkemommy It makes me furious. When we miscarried, I had planned that pregnancy so that I could leave work during spring break and not come back until the next year because I'm the admissions director and Fall is our recruiting season. Now I'm super bitter because I'm upset my anxiety over work made me feel the way I did, and I lost that baby. Now, I'm using whatever sick days H & I (and my FIL, he's also in the same school system and we can give each other days) accrue and taking time...trying not to feel guilty. Why am I feeling guilty about bonding with my child? The US has some f***ed up maternity laws/policies.
No confessions but I love reading everyone elses. Keep 'em coming!!
My confession is lame, but DH has a pet peeve if the bed isn't made (he leaves before me in the mornings) so its my job to make it... I could care less if the bed is made and most of the time I'm running late in the mornings and don't have time to do so... so I sneak upstairs in the evenings and make it before he goes into the bedroom so he thinks its been made all day... basically I'm making it for him to unmake it & get in... but he's none the wiser
@hockeyfan42 - You could always have names for a boy and girl that honor them in some way... even if its not obvious?
His name was Paul. The girl variations are kind of.....bad, haha.
My husband's name is Paul and he wanted to name this baby Paul if it was a boy. Now that it's a girl, he jokingly refers to her as Pauline or Paula. He thinks he's so funny because it drives me nuts!
My confession is lame, but DH has a pet peeve if the bed isn't made (he leaves before me in the mornings) so its my job to make it... I could care less if the bed is made and most of the time I'm running late in the mornings and don't have time to do so... so I sneak upstairs in the evenings and make it before he goes into the bedroom so he thinks its been made all day... basically I'm making it for him to unmake it & get in... but he's none the wiser
A recent study (I am too lazy to go hunting for it and I can not verify its scientific properties) actually said making the bed in the morning is a bad idea. Mites and such feast off of warm, damp areas, so if you make the bed as soon as you get up, you are trapping them in there and giving them a lovely place to stay. The article recommended leaving the bed unmade throughout the day so it could air out and then, for comfort, making it just before you get back in it at the end of the day. So, moral of the story, you are wiser than your husband.
I feel guilty about this. When we were told this morning that we're having a boy, I cried because I was so happy...but also partly because I was really hoping for a girl. Mostly because I was just SO in love with the name we had picked (& we still aren't 100% on a boys name). I definitely have to change my expectations for things...but I'm so looking forward to my first baby boy snuggles & the crazy adventure that awaits me.
I didn't cry, but I felt a little disappointment when I found out this baby is boy #2 for us and feel a little jealous looking at people with baby girls. I always imagined a family with one of each and I was pretty set on Violet for a girl. I'm super happy to be having a healthy little guy and that my boys will grow up as brothers. I just wanted a girl too (not instead of my boy, but in a parallel universe sort of way where he wasn't an option, if that makes sense.) We're not set on a boy name either and there isn't one that screams to me that it's The Name.
@DeePaddy24 I'm echoing the don't feel bad sentiments. When we were told girl last week I was pretty sad that she wasn't a boy. Mainly because I was insanely excited to decorate a boy room and we had a boy name picked out. I have no girl names and I don't know what I want her room to look like. I'm excited for her, but I wanted a boy just as bad.
My FFFC... It was my morning to sit with DH's 93 y/o grandma. (She gets round the clock care so she can continue to live in her home and during the day family rotates sitting with her.) I wasn't in the mood to be chatty, so when she woke up at ten I told her it was only seven and she could go back to bed for a little while longer if she wanted.
@mkemommy and @Emztron500 have you ever seen the fb page "Man Who Has it All?" It has a lot of satirical posts/memes that take statements that are typical aimed at/towards women and flip them around to be about men, and it's both hilarious and enraging. Here is a good example:
I am more excited to decorate my DSs second big boy room than redo a nursery for DS2. Poor second children. I don't even know if I will redo the room...
Haha. Me too! When DS was born, we had done a woodland theme and it was really cute but now I'm excited to give him a big boy train themed room. Our next LO is getting the woodland stuff. We're team green this time so I don't want to think of another gender neutral theme! I'm a little lazier this time around.
I'm 99% sure that we're just going to reuse all our underwater/fish nursery decor for baby and redecorate our toddler's room instead so he can get new big boy stuff in his choice of theme. By the time baby moves into his own room, our toddler might need to upgrade from a toddler bed to a twin size anyway. I'd rather just buy new twin size bedding for him and new stuff to coordinate everything in his room to go with that than do double the work and decorate the nursery too.
@hockeyfan42 - You could always have names for a boy and girl that honor them in some way... even if its not obvious?
His name was Paul. The girl variations are kind of.....bad, haha.
Would a name that just started with a P or one with a similar meaning work for you or is that not enough to be "in honor"? You could also stick Paula or Polina or whatever variant in the middle name spot
Yesterday after I took my 3.5 year old swimming, I drove around for over an hour trying to get her to fall asleep so she would take a nap since she won't take one at home anymore.
1- My belly button never popped in either pregnancy. I thought it might in #2 but it never did. 2- even though I have no preference on the sex of this baby because of the fact that it is my last I know I will be a little sad to never have the child I imagined in the other sex. Weird I know, but it's how I feel. 3- My computer is 10 feet from me and even though I see the number of new comments growing every time I log on, I can't bring myself to go grab it and update the spread sheet. 4- Today I went to the store while H stayed with the kids. This rarely happens so I took almost 2 hours to get about 30 minutes worth of groceries. It was great.
So my Heart snores really loud. so loud, I can't sleep without eat plugs, and sometimes, I'll make "sleep noises" really loud to wake him up and he'll go downstairs! I'm horrible, I know, but the earplugs fall out and get lost in my sleep and I have to wake up before 5 to get ready for work.
So my Heart snores really loud. so loud, I can't sleep without eat plugs, and sometimes, I'll make "sleep noises" really loud to wake him up and he'll go downstairs! I'm horrible, I know, but the earplugs fall out and get lost in my sleep and I have to wake up before 5 to get ready for work.
@hockeyfan42 Paul means small or humble- maybe you could find a girl name with a similiar meaning or like PP said using a P name and maybe trying to match the initials. If we had a boy I was going to use Christian to honor my late brother Christopher. We're having a girl so her first and middle name initials will be C.R. , my brother was Christopher Robert so it's a close enough way to honor him for me.
@hockeyfan42 Paul means small or humble- maybe you could find a girl name with a similiar meaning or like PP said using a P name and maybe trying to match the initials. If we had a boy I was going to use Christian to honor my late brother Christopher. We're having a girl so her first and middle name initials will be C.R. , my brother was Christopher Robert so it's a close enough way to honor him for me.
Thanks for the idea! I hadn't thought about going for a similar meaning. I think the way you are honoring your brother is really nice.
June 2016 April Siggy Challenge: Reasons my kid is crying
@hockeyfan42 Paul means small or humble- maybe you could find a girl name with a similiar meaning or like PP said using a P name and maybe trying to match the initials. If we had a boy I was going to use Christian to honor my late brother Christopher. We're having a girl so her first and middle name initials will be C.R. , my brother was Christopher Robert so it's a close enough way to honor him for me.
Thanks for the idea! I hadn't thought about going for a similar meaning. I think the way you are honoring your brother is really nice.
My name means "princess" and since we are apparently having all boys and my middle name won't get passed down, we are probably going to name one Brendan which means "prince."
DS 9/2/13 was a BFP from an IUI! Triplets due 6/29/16 also from an IUI!
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Triplets due 6/29/16 also from an IUI!
1200 miles away. One of them visited after our first was born, stayed a week, and I almost lost it multiple times with her nonsense. You ARE a saint for letting her stay with you.
I've let my kids watch way too much TV the last few days. I'm exhausted and have had a headache for over a week that I can't get rid of. I don't know what else to try to fix it.
Yeah- I feel like once my belly button pops out I'll look more pregnant and less like I have a fat roll above my belly button and a fat roll below my belly button!
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
I'm not even the least bit ashamed!
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my FFFC - I'm hosting some friends for a play date at our house this weekend. First time I've ever had DD's friends over (we usually have them out or at one of the other moms houses). I'm dreading it. Cleaning, prep, snacks... Maybe if I'm bad at it they won't expect me to host again??
FIL Paul Edward...FIL parents: Pauline and Edward.
Maybe you can change a middle name?
Fyi your belly button might not pop. Mine never has
No confessions but I love reading everyone elses. Keep 'em coming!!
Married: 12/16/12
TTC #1: 06/15 BFP #1:07/13/15
D&C: 08/28/15
BFP #2: 09/26/15
M: 06/03/16
BFP #2: 02/12/18
L : 7/26/18 (SIUGR, micropreemie)
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@DeePaddy24 I'm echoing the don't feel bad sentiments. When we were told girl last week I was pretty sad that she wasn't a boy. Mainly because I was insanely excited to decorate a boy room and we had a boy name picked out. I have no girl names and I don't know what I want her room to look like. I'm excited for her, but I wanted a boy just as bad.
My FFFC... It was my morning to sit with DH's 93 y/o grandma. (She gets round the clock care so she can continue to live in her home and during the day family rotates sitting with her.) I wasn't in the mood to be chatty, so when she woke up at ten I told her it was only seven and she could go back to bed for a little while longer if she wanted.
@hockeyfan42 maybe this can help?
...and..this may or may not be what I am eating right now...
2- even though I have no preference on the sex of this baby because of the fact that it is my last I know I will be a little sad to never have the child I imagined in the other sex. Weird I know, but it's how I feel.
3- My computer is 10 feet from me and even though I see the number of new comments growing every time I log on, I can't bring myself to go grab it and update the spread sheet.
4- Today I went to the store while H stayed with the kids. This rarely happens so I took almost 2 hours to get about 30 minutes worth of groceries. It was great.
@hockeyfan42 Paul means small or humble- maybe you could find a girl name with a similiar meaning or like PP said using a P name and maybe trying to match the initials. If we had a boy I was going to use Christian to honor my late brother Christopher. We're having a girl so her first and middle name initials will be C.R. , my brother was Christopher Robert so it's a close enough way to honor him for me.
Triplets due 6/29/16 also from an IUI!