Motherly Intuition

MississippiCatfish

I'm curious to hear if anyone has any "feelings" or premonitions about their babies and/or pregnancies? Gender? Timing? Delivery specifics? Thought it might be fun to hear what others have to say!

MississippiCatfish

With my first, I had a strong feeling I would deliver early. Like, I worried about it a lot. I had to be induced (because of some ultrasound concerns) at 41w3d

I've had a feeling that each of my pregnancies was a boy. I was right x3, haven't found out yet this time!

I also have a feeling that this baby is going to come later after my due date than any of my others. DS3 was 11 days "overdue"!

Also, 2 of my babies were breech just before the 38 week mark. Even though we had scheduled the c-section with one of them, I had a feeling that they would flip and we wouldn't have to go the c-section route. They did flip! And I have a feeling that this one will be breech again, but I'm less convinced that I'll be able to get it to flip for some reason. We'll see. 

SweetMelissa4

I had a feeling this was a girl, and it is.  I'm also irrationally concerned/having a feeling about being put on bed rest.  After everything we've been through, and how rough this pregnancy has been, I don't completely trust my body not to do something weird.  I'm trying to plan ahead a bit for that scenario just in case so we're ready, but really have to get going on the nursery already!

Other than that, not too many strong feelings.

ElizabethSchuyler

I knew DS was a boy early on. At the anatomy scan I just said to DH "Told you." 

This go I think I'll be bed rested early but that's only because my issues have sprung up way sooner. I hope not, but I'm prepared for it.

I have no idea about the sex. I think girl but part of me wants another boy too. 

liz4382

I had a feeling I was pregnant (both times) well before I got a positive test.  I knew within a couple of days.  Even though i spent some time convincing myself that logically I probably wasn't. 

I also had a strong feeling this baby was a girl.  But at our NT scan we found out it's probably a boy

I have no intuition about labor or delivery--just really hoping that baby makes it to term!!

ariasbabyblog

With my first two I was convinced I was having a girl, and both were boys, so I am apparently foresight blind   I'm concerned about this little girl because I haven't felt a lot of movement. Both boys squirreled around as much as they could as soon as they could, but I'm not getting much from her. I wonder if that will mean her personality will be opposite of her brothers, who are both sweet boys, but VERY active. I have felt her maybe twice, and I'm not even sure it was her.

am+mommy

With DD2 I knew all along I was having a girl, even before the ultrasound I was so certain. And I was right. All along I thought this baby was a boy because I felt a little different but I'm now thinking its girl #3 for me! 

DuchessOfCambridge

I'm convinced I'm having a boy. Monday will tell!

ElizabethSchuyler

Oh I knew I was pregnant this time. I was falling asleep at 7pm all week, tested at 10DPO and it was negative. It was a cheapie and I knew it was a liar liar. I tested with a FRER at 12DPO and it was positive. No shit. 

ineedsixeggs

I totally knew my first was a girl (team green). But I didn't trust myself fully because in all my dreams I had a boy (except for the one where it was a cat). 

I feel like I didn't worry about much with her. Probably more due to naivety than intuition. But she was born right on her due date with no induction and no major health concerns (for her).

This one I have no idea on gender. I have a feeling it will be another big baby but I'm really hoping for a shorter labor. I kind of feel like I will go past due so I haven't been sharing a specific due date with anyone. And I'm eagerly awaiting the A/S because the difference in movement from my first is making me a little uneasy. Crossing my fingers it just means I'll get a more chill infant out of it. 

It will be interesting to look back on these and go "Boy was I wrong!" 

ETA: I had a dream I got a positive test the night before I did this time!

DuchessOfCambridge

ooodalollly said:

I totally knew my first was a girl (team green). But I didn't trust myself fully because in all my dreams I had a boy (except for the one where it was a cat). 

av2323

My mother's intuition has been WAAAAAY off on everything

CubsFan7

With my first pregnancy, I knew I was having a boy and was right. I also knew something was wrong towards the end and was right. 

With this pregnancy, I knew I was having a girl and it's been confirmed via ultrasound and blood test. I have a feeling she'll be a big girl at birth also. We'll see if I'm right. 

RiverSong15

My mother's intuition was pretty off this pregnancy. I was convinced this TTC cycle hadn't worked, and had a couple glasses of wine the day before I got my BFP. Tested the next morning at 10 DPO because we were supposed to go to a wine club event that night and I wanted to confirm I could go. Cue my surprise when the second line popped up very quickly and obviously. My exact words to DH were "Holy shit!!", as I shoved the FRER in his face 

As far as the sex of the baby, I thought it was a boy from the beginning, but about two weeks before we got our NIPT results, I subconsciously started using female pronouns. So my subconscious was right, but my first gut reaction was way off. I've stopped trying to predict anything....

mariposa_767s

I knew I was pregnant before it registered both times.

I knew DS was a boy and that he was going to be too big.  I just "knew".

I feel like this one is a boy.  I've been calling it "he".  I guess I'll know next week!  But I also had a dream last night that it's a boy.  If it's girl, I'll happily eat my words and go buy her a little dress haha

I don't have any intuition yet about my delivery, but I probably will as it gets closer.  Honestly, that's what I'm waiting on before deciding for sure if I'm going to go with the repeat C-section or a VBAC.

MaximumEffort

I was wrong all times about what baby would be  I haven't figured out what I think this one will be. I'm worried about preterm labor again like my last two pregnancies and about gaining too much weight. 
Once DD was here my mother's intuition got much better. 

Karrotelle

Ever since I was a little girl (5 years old and up) I always told my parents I was going to grow up and have twin boys. My parents say I always made my dolls be twin boys, my barbies had twin boy babies etc. I forgot all about that until we told my parents we are due with twins and my Mom said "oh my god...you knew!!!". My Aunt was freaked right out. She said she remembers asking a little me "Why twin boys?" And I said "because that's just what will happen!". Twins do NOT run in our families at all. We did no fertility treatments. This is totally, completely spontaneous. 

We find out on Tuesday what the sex of the twins are. I swear, if it's 2 boys I'll be freaked the hell out lol I mean, what would those odds be!? 

jess0211

I thought for sure LO was going to be a girl but I was wrong! Lol for some reason I started thinking lately he is going to be a big baby but that might just be because people keep joking about me having a big baby bc I am so little. 

bcashaw

I have a feeling it's a girl. Guess we will find out in November 

jka427

With my first I had a dream that I would deliver the next day (at 36 weeks) even though I had absolutely no reason to think that. I even forced my husband to drive the two hours to work instead of taking the train because I was convinced it was real. I found out later that day that I had pre-e and I had the baby a few hours later. The only reason DH made it was because he drove!!!!

i no longer question my gut haha

bannaners

I have been wrong in everything and my husband has been right. Sooo maybe he has the intuition lol
Examples - he told me he thought I was pregnant from literally the day we conceived, with both, and he told me to take a test.
I was Sure ds was a girl, dh was sure he was a boy. This time I am convinced I am having a boy but I am not betting on it since I seem to have zero intuition about gender.
I was convinced I would get stuck on bedrest at some point. I did get exercise restriction for like 10 weeks with DS but not bedrest!

BayCamp

With my first I was due on 12/7. My mom was trying to figure out the best time to fly down since she could only stay a certain amount of days and I told her to wait until a few days after my due date just in case I went past due. I said to look on the 11th for flights and sure as hell I went in to labor 12 hours after she landed. 

The timing couldn't have been better! She was able to be there for my whole labor and max time to help me with a newborn. 

car1a

I'm convinced I know exactly when the baby implanted, but that was more because I felt certain things and not as much an intuition. My main intuition so far has been wrong- I was certain it was a boy! Still kind of shocked. 

zigzag8412

We're team green but I'm pretty much settled it's a boy. In my head at least, it's never been a girl. Though DD is determined it's a girl and not a boy... Time will tell. 

ibanezstarburst

I'm very convinced baby is a girl! We find out on the 26th. I also have this feeling that baby will be born in October. 

It's so neat to hear everyone's intuitions and find out if we're right! So far all my intuitions have been wrong. I was convinced something was wrong at our 7 and 12 week ultrasounds and everything has been completely fine! Maybe that's less intuition and more paranoia  

kalenp

I was sure DS2 was a girl until he went past his due date. Then for the last 2 weeks of pregnancy I just had a gut feeling he was a boy. 
This time around I am starting to feel like it's a girl again but am totally mistrustful of that. ha! Excited to find out in November. 

foxaírt

Awe it's so nice reading all of these . I feel sooo disconnected from this pregnancy 
It's hard to believe even when at the anatomy scan looking it's like it's not me or something . So defiantly no intuition or feelings about it 
Feel a bit sad we are nearly half way and I I haven't been able to adjust to the idea of being pregnant 

2Dash

I'm certain this baby will be boy #3 for me! I never felt this strongly with my other two on gender so not sure why. I'm only making a list of boys names. I'll find out next Thursday. 

When I was little I told eveyone I was going to have three boys and had only boy cabbage patch dolls. I kind of feel like maybe my child self knew.

I knew DS2 was going to be big (I have big babies). I was carrying smaller than with DS1 (9 poubds) but I was uncomfortable like even getting to the bathroom was difficult. U/S said around 8-9 pounds. He was 11.2. I looked at DH in the operating room and went "I knew it" and felt very justified! He was gorgeous and very healthy. He was also such a cuddly baby and still is great with hugs and cuddles. I called him my big little!

MississippiCatfish

@kalenp Did you go to 42 weeks with him??

cmessamore

I knew I was pregnant all 6 times very early on. 

I had no intuition about my pregnancy that ended in a loss.

With DS1, I knew it was a boy when I was only a few weeks into being pregnant and had his name picked out very early, because I was so certain on his gender. I also thought he was going to come early and he came 1 day late.

With my third pregnancy, I knew I was pregnant very early, but from the beginning, something didn't feel right. When this pregnancy ended in a loss, I sadly wasn't very surprised.

With DS2, I knew it was a boy. I had no indication that he would come early, but I was very wrong there.

With DS3, I was convinced it was a girl. My pregnancy was so different. And I think some of my "intuition" was hope and denial. I really wanted a girl. I knew he would try to come early and he tried several times. I'm so thankful for modern medicine! 

Now, with this LO, I tried to push aside any thoughts about gender, because I really wanted a girl, and didn't want to be disappointed. I'm still in denial over the test results that came back as a girl and I can't wait for the AS to confirm. I feel like this baby is not going to have the same struggles as the last one trying to come early, but I also know that reality and science say otherwise. Guess we'll see! 

MKMandeville

With DD I knew she was a girl and even though I was due May 30th I always said she was going to be a mother's day baby since the day we found out we were pregnant. Mother's day was the 11th. I went into labor that afternoon but she didn't arrive until the following afternoon on the 12th. 

My gut says it's a boy this time. I'm due on the 6th and something inside of me says October 25th will be the day. I'm not sure why but we will see how close I am again. 

ineedsixeggs

@foxaírt The connection happens at different times for different people. Even though I was excited for my first, it took a long time to feel real. You may not feel the instant bond at the baby's birth either, but it will come. It's very common and it doesn't say anything about your mothering abilities. 

foxaírt

@ooodalollly
Thanks

DuchessOfCambridge

My gender intuition was accurate Now that that's done maybe I'll start having feelings about delivery and timing!

kaitieb14

My doc asked me today if I had any intuition about this and I said "honestly for all I know it could be a mutant watermelon in there for how much I've been eating watermelon and how clueless I feel about what this kid is." NO idea. Find out on July 5!

am+mommy

@foxaírt @ooodalollly I felt that way with DD1. Even after the birth I was kind of just like "yup that's my baby now what?" It's common to feel a sort of disconnect. Also, were very close now. 

foxaírt

I'm guessing its I'm just not a 'pregnancy' 'baby' person like some people just love all babies and get excited about pregnancy and touch you and rub your belly for some kind of weird fertility praise invasion of personal space and its just them , you know and they say oh its different when its your own - and maybe but maybe its just I'm different and like not going to be that way or feel that way 

my husband is so in love with this baby see it its how he looks at me at the US he is smitten and he can help it - this is his baby and he's there he feels it - 

he asked if i love our baby - and its like i have a strong instinctual biological responsibility to it - like I'm very protective of it and willing to prioritise this little life over everything else but thats the design right thats basal instinct and biology of a reproducing organism -  can we call that love  = because in the same moment i feel the strong response of 'i don't know them'

i know it'll be ok - it just might not be what everyone expect of me is all 

DuchessOfCambridge

@foxaírt I would consider that love. I think you'll love your LO even more when they are here but I realized how much I loved this baby boy every time I had a scare and was so worried about him. That protectiveness to me is love. 

In terms of people touching me though, I want exactly zero people rubbing my belly, though I will say yes to friends because I know they'd be sad if I didn't. 

bklynchica

I had a strong feeling that they were girls. Maybe because I thought their faces looked like girls. Is that even possible?

car1a

@bklynchica I was wondering the same, since some profile scans look more masculine to me (jaw or facial structure) so I'd be curious if people who were team green with prior pregnancies had a hunch. Though given how so many people guess wrong on new baby's sex out of the womb (unless they're wearing a headband ha) might not be much to it?

TallMomma29

I have pretty good intuition about other things, but basically no intuition when it comes to babies.  With DD1 I had no feelings either way on sex, but then when I was told boy at 15 weeks I had this feeling it was wrong and I was at least right about that!  With DD2 I was completely convinced I was having a boy and called her Teddy up to my anatomy scan.  With both I thought I'd go early (like 34-36 weeks) but I had to have inductions at around 39 weeks. 

This time I called the twins "girls" from the beginning but I think it was more out of habit since I already have girls, and some wishful thinking for more girls.  

Once you have babies, there is also supposedly this "mothers intuition"' when you just "know" that something is wrong with your kid.  I don't have that either!  Poor DD2 had bronchiolitis one time and by the time I took her to the doctor (because I thought she just had a weird cough that wasn't going away), the doctor said if I had waited any longer she'd probably have to be admitted.  Ooops.  I think moms with intuition would have brought their baby in sooner.