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theycallmejen
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For those with one now and one on the way....
theycallmejen
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Do you find yourself hoping for a specific gender? If so, which? And why?
....just curious.
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Re: For those with one now and one on the way....
Hoping for another girl, primarily because DD has been so easy, I'm hoping another would be as well. Also, being able to reuse her clothes and all things pink, not to mention the kids room are connected by a jack and jill bath, so would be easier for sharing.
That being said, I always said if I had one of each, I'd want the girl first, so halfway there if it is a boy. I should know in about 2 weeks, getting blood drawn on Monday for MaterniT21.
IVF #1: 9/11: ER: 12R, 11M, 10F, No Frosties; 5dt: 2 blasts, 1 morula; DD born 6/3/12
IVF #2: 11/12-12/12: ER: 20R, 20M, 16F, 4 Frosties; 5dt: 3 blasts, DS born 8/9/13
TTC#1 for 19 months with PCOS and MFI IUI#3 + injectables = BFP!!!! Beta#1-134(13dpiui) Beta #2-392(15dpiui)
#1 born December 2011
TTC#2 - Beta #1 -51@10dpo Beta#2 -1353 @16dpo
#2 born May 2013
TTC # 3 June 2014 BFP 12-1-14
#3 born August 2015
#4!!!!!!! due June 2017
With our 1st we were both kind of hoping for a girl because my DH was a terror as an infant/child (lol). It was a boy, but our DS is SO sweet and really easy.. nothing how DH was!
This pregnancy I wanted another boy for our DS to have a brother, but I wanted a girl for me. It is another boy. We are very excited to give DS a brother, but I can tell my DH would love to have a "daddys girl" one day!
We've always talked about 3, so hopefully our last will be a girl, and really complete our family.
BFP 5/21/10, Missed m/c 7/5/10 at 11w3d (baby measured 7wks), D&C 7/7/10
Aug/Sept 2010 - CD3&10 b/w & u/s, genetic testing, SA, HSG, & Lap/Hyst to remove septum
12/09/10 BFP -- 7/05/11 DS born at 33w5d. Came home after 23d in NICU at 37w0d
June 2012 - TTC #2! -- 10/05/12 BFP -- 5/23/13 DS2 born at 37w1d! Yay full term!
Surprise BFP 6/25/14 LO#3 due Feb2015!
I wasn't bothered either way with any of my pregnancies. DH has started an apprenticeship in a new career therefore money will be tight for a few years, so I wouldn't mind having a third boy. But really, lots of our boys' clothes are pretty unisex and I'm not actually that phased about dressing a girl in boy's clothes either so it's no big deal which we have.
Just as long as it's not twins!! Ha!
I cannot decide. I'm leaning toward another dd just because I think a pair of sisters 13.5 months apart would be adorable. I have a sister just 10 months younger than me, so I think I'm trying to relive my childhood through this idea. Plus, we really won't have to buy much at all (just a few 0-3 cardigans to make summer outfits autumn outfits), and we'll be set on everything the new baby needs for the first several months at least.
On the other hand, if we have a boy, we'll have one of each and I really won't care who comes in the future. I've always said I want a big family and I don't care about the numbers of each gender except that I want at least one of each.
Dh and my mom are convinced it's a boy. I guess we'll find out in 9 weeks.
Obviously we would have been thrilled with either, but another boy would have been ideal and that is what we are having!
There were several reasons but they main ones were:
they will share a room when we have a third child
reusing DS1's clothes!
we are going to wait a while for a 3rd child (probably 3-4ish years) so it will be fun for him to have a built in playmate in a brother. I know boys/girls play together just fine, I think it will just be easier in the long run to have 2 boys since their interests will be more similiar.