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March 2013 Moms
VPGIRL06
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Little Riley-our first little girl coming March 1st, 2013 (or sometime around there;)
It's a girl!
VPGIRL06
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Went to a 3D ultrasound gender peek at 17 weeks to find out for sure (since our 16 week ended on a pretty ambigious note) and it was definitly a little girl!
I'm excited no matter what that I'm going to have a daughter.....but I'm a little nervous. I guess I just never pictured myself with a daughter, so I' mjust not sure what to buy her or if I'll be able to relate to her if she ends up being very girly.... I'm just so happy right now everything is healthy and the baby's development looked great...she's got a good amount of fat on her, and she's practicing breathing already so it makes me pretty optimistic. Heart beat is really strong, and she's moving around-she doesn't dig the ultrasounds though! She kept squirming away from the ultrasound lady, going from one side to the other, and finally just kicking at the ultrasound tech LOL and hiding her face.
Anyways...any moms of little girls...any advice for a woman who always pictured having boys??
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Re: It's a girl!
I don't have girls, but one thing I can say is you'll find interest in whatever she is interested in. I never thought I'd have boys (and am pretty girly besides football, and running). I will play with whatever my DS gravitates to. Right now we play with dump trucks, cars, and wrestle...oh and Yo Gabba Gabba. You'll learn to love her interests, too.
Congrats!
Congrats! It is going to be great!
Here's my take:
For the first year or so, they are all pretty much darling little babies, so that is the easy part. I don't like all pink, and I don't really like character clothes (Disney and whatever is on tv), but I'm not really a hippie or a fashionista, either, so I dressed my little girl in mostly gender neutral and some girl stuff.
I really didn't let her watch mainstream TV at all until . . . Well, now. She is 9 and the only place she has seen channels like Nick and Cartoon Network is at her dads. She watched PBS Kids as a little sprat, Blues Clues, etc.
And I didn't buy her lots of overly girly stuff. Although my staunchest feminist friend bought her a Barbie. She loved those for a while, but never to the exclusion of her other stuff.
And who is the little girl I'm raising? Well, she has always loved animals. She reads books, she plays with My Little Pony and Lego. She wore dresses for a long time at the ages of 3-5 and now pretty much never wears them except to parties and church. She cut her hair off boy-short because she was a swimmer and "it was in her way" and now is growing it out to be super long because that is how all her gymnast friends have it.
In other words, while kids have their own distinct personalities, remember, they are what they see and hear and interact with. Expose your little girl to the whole wide world of interesting things and odds are good she will be just as well balanced and moderate as you are. But some girls ARE super girl and some boys ARE super tough, so be ready!
Have fun, too!
CageyMack
37, married to my favorite person in the world, DW! One darling surfer-girl (12) and one darling, sweet boy born 3/16/13.
5/2013 Started TTC #3, DW's turn: 5/2013: Diagnostics (shg) and surgery (polyp rem.) for best chances. July-Oct: IUI # 1-4, medicated, monitored, triggered. All BFN. IVF in Jan May. Sheesh. Whoop! IVF#1 cycle started 4/2/14. 5/1: 19 eggs retrieved, 8 matured, ICSI'd. 4 fertilized. Only 2 to transfer/freeze stage. 5/6: Two embryos transferred. 5/15: Beta #1 9dp5dt is 134! BFP! 5/19: Beta #2 13dp5dt is 672! B'erFP! 5/21: Beta #3 15dp5dt is 1853. Yay!
"Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
Married to SAJ since 8/6/11
BFP #1: 1/23/12 mc: 2/19/12
BFP #2: 6/20/12
Thank Cagey!
I completely agree with what you're saying....I already told my parents (after my step mom asked if she can start getting "pink bows and pink frilly dresses!") that I want to keep it either neutral or not too frilly-mostly because those clothes tend to get so thrashed and second I won't keep up buying her that when she's born. I don't like pink, either!
I'm all about exposing her to ALL toys and things-Barbies or any doll figurine, Legos, brain toys, animals, etc. I don't want to exclude all "feminine" toys but I definitly don't want that to be the theme-I think there are so many things out there little girls can play with that can use their imagination.
I know if she's super girly I will be fine with it...I guess I have the opposite fears of alot of mothers who have boys, and don't know what to do. But I'm sure I will be fine and figure it out along the way
I am TOTALLY with you. I found out yesterday that I am having a girl too! I was shocked, I always pictured myself having a baby boy. Another factor for me is that I am a psychotherapist and I specialize in working with teenage girls. So i spend most of my days/night with crabby, angry and troubled teenage girls. This DOES NOT HELP calm my worries about having a girl.
My husband is thrilled we're having a girl and I have been enjoying his excitment finding out it's a girl. And I agree with everyone else, once the baby comes, it's the child/person you fall in love with and the gender sort of doesn't factor into it anymore. Good luck to us both i guess!
ha! My husbands the opposite..he was so devastated when he found out it wouldn't be a little boy. It's only until almost 2 weeks later that he's finally coming around and realizing we can always try, try again in a couple years, and to enjoy the fact that he's going to be a dad soon!