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Re: All About Nurseries/Baby Rooms
I made the neutral decor for DS room as Team Green so we may upgrade his stuff and re-use the nursery stuff as planned. Though if we have a girl, I don’t know if I can resist all the girly themes.
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Eventually we also need to figure out a big boy bed for DS, so we can use the crib for this LO. But we seriously didn't use his crib at all for almost 10 months. So no rush.
I would also encourage all the FTMs to spend some of your planning time on other areas of the house - for instance, if you want to nurse. Pick a spot where you'll be most comfortable, and set up a kick-butt nursing station.
Think about things you may want to accomplish & will need to accommodate your LO. Do you need to make room for a swing? Bouncer? Play area? It all depends on the layout of your space.
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A basket to hold the little stuff would probably be a good idea!
Anyone else thinking up more ideas since last time?
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IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
So if this one is a boy, I’ll be making our spare room into a brand new nursery. No idea what theme yet, though. If this one is a girl, she’ll move into the existing nursery and I’ll turn the spare room into a “big girl” room for DD...which would be sooo much fun. Basically I just can’t wait to find out what I’m having so I can plan a bit more!
my almost 3 year old daughter loves dinosaurs more than anything else , her sister even got her a dinosaur necklace for Christmas
I'm leaning toward a woodland animal theme for this nursery. I am loving this bedding, so I would decorate around this maybe.
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Today I was thinking that maybe the accent wall will be a light sand color. I'm leaning towards giraffes as a theme now, but I don't know. I've never been a theme person at all so this is tough.
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
Dd2s was star wars. I made most of the art to give it a girly touch. I love her room.
While pregnant with dd2 I told DH that the next one will be foxes. So that's what we are doing. We painted the room a few months ago in preparation. I'll be making a lot of the art again.
@sourlemon DD's room has a few foxes in the woodland theme. I got the set from Target's Cloud Island line. Her room is my favorite place to be!
The giraffe theme sounds so cute, and there are so many possibilities with going for a neutral wall color!
Im in a one bedroom apartment for now but we need to move in September for my husband’s job. So after I deal with the stress of finding a new home and moving with a newborn, I will start piecing together my dream nursery 😂
The room we will use is currently our game room/second guest room and I have a lot to clean out. It has a huge nice walk in closet that you currently can't walk into because it is so crowded with stuff. Hoping to tackle that maybe over my spring break in March. Haven't had much energy to do anything recently.
The room that will become the nursery is a currently a guest room. We'll probably wait a month or so after baby comes to fully convert the room into a nursery. We don't really live by any of our family, so we want to keep a place for visitors to stay in those first few weeks. Luckily we don't need to paint it since it is already a light gray shade.
Baby Chewbacca picture and put up Star Wars decals and light sabers. We’re nerds here, haha.
Now with this one I want to wait until we know the sex to decide a theme. I’m thinking we will move my 2 year old to the bigger guest room and then make his old room the new nursery. Part of me is bummed to lose our guest room though and take down the Star Wars room.
Our walls are painted (we went with tide water on the bottom third and cream the rest of the way) and plank wall is done (still deciding if we want to lightly white wash it), the ceiling fan (white) and ceiling (sky blue) are painted, and the trim is finished (window, closet, and door). The only thing we have left is the custom closet (shelves will be white with cream background), furnishing, and curtains. I've decided to dust off my sewing machine and make curtains. It will probably be a great distraction and feel good to make something myself.
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
TTC #1 5/13 BFP #3 5/2/14 DD born 1/19/15
NTNP #2 8/17 BFP 12/13/18 ED 8/21/19
We are having the nursery re-textured tomorrow. Somehow that room got left out when we were remodeling the rest of the house and still has that old orange peel texture. Yuck. Then hopefully we will paint over the weekend. I don't know what to call our "theme" per say, but the walls will be a shade of green from the swatches in the spoiler (I'm leaning toward Gallery Green or Dried Thyme, but we'll decide once we've put some samples up). The pic in the spoiler is also the decorations for above the crib that I've gathered and an example of a mobile I'm thinking about making.
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For paint - I'm think of a light green maybe like sage green but a little more rustic. Not entirely sure yet.
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I am in the process of making the art. Also need to make a few quilts, the bed skirt, and valences. Finished one string art over the weekend and have one more to do.