(44) Little Presents - Due in December 2013

[Lara310809]

Kaiecee, Ireland is great, so many really beautiful places, especially when the sun shines. You're going to be busy with two little ones. Very exciting!

I think this is her fourth braver than I am, that's for sure

 

[SugarBeth]

Hey ladies, would love to join all the December mamas to be on this thread, please.

This is a long awaited first baby for us and due date is December 3rd.

OH is convinced it's a girl but we've decided to stay team

Welcome! You've been added to the front page I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up with a girl, this thread has tons of !

Thanks for adding me, DHBH0930.

I had a very vivid dream in the first trimester that I got an ultrasound pic and in the corner written in bright pink was 'It's a girl!' so maybe......

At the beginning of my second trimester, I started having very vivid dreams that I gave birth to a boy, or that I was seeing very clear boy parts on my gender scan. I was only feeling girl vibes though, so I figured it was just my brain being silly, but nope - the feelings were wrong and the vivid dreams were right! The one about the gender scan was a lot like real life!

 

[Kaiecee]

Yes it's my 4th but share custody with my ex for my first 2 ANC since they are all boys I plan to dry for a girl

I don't know about u ladies I dream so much I feel like I'm tired in the morning

If I ever win the lottery I want to spend a lot of time in Ireland it looks so beautiful

 

[Suzy_Q]

My dreams are ridiculously strong too! I wake up thoroughly entertained by them though

 

[brit3435]

I'm having very vivid dreams as well! I don't feel like I've been sleeping as well bc of the dreams it's nice to know others are experiencing this too, I thought I was just crazy

I also had a couple of dreams that I had a girl before I found out the gender. I had the same type of dream with my daughter so for me it has been an accurate gender predictor! Both times the dreams were in the second trimester but before the gender scan.

It sounds like a lot of you are planning to have more children after this baby. It's hard for me to think about while pregnant but I'm really torn about stopping after this or trying for a third. How many kids are all of you planning on?

 

[DHBH0930]

I'm having very vivid dreams as well! I don't feel like I've been sleeping as well bc of the dreams it's nice to know others are experiencing this too, I thought I was just crazy

I also had a couple of dreams that I had a girl before I found out the gender. I had the same type of dream with my daughter so for me it has been an accurate gender predictor! Both times the dreams were in the second trimester but before the gender scan.

It sounds like a lot of you are planning to have more children after this baby. It's hard for me to think about while pregnant but I'm really torn about stopping after this or trying for a third. How many kids are all of you planning on?

Lots of dreams here too! I don't sleep well at all, I wake up all the time which is why I know I'm having all these dreams. I get RLS really bad, and also have to pee all the time still, not sure if it is a mix of hormones still causing me to produce more or the slight bit of weight already on my bladder, or both combined, all I know is some nights I get up 8-10 times

I plan on 2, so 1 more after this one, I like an age gap of like 2.5 or 3 years. I'm not against 3 (max) but my DH would have to get a good size raise for that. That wouldn't be for many more years, so only time can tell.

 

[SugarBeth]

I also had a couple of dreams that I had a girl before I found out the gender. I had the same type of dream with my daughter so for me it has been an accurate gender predictor! Both times the dreams were in the second trimester but before the gender scan.

It sounds like a lot of you are planning to have more children after this baby. It's hard for me to think about while pregnant but I'm really torn about stopping after this or trying for a third. How many kids are all of you planning on?

Come to think of it, I had gender dreams with my daughter as well. I never get a strong "feeling" for gender, but I get dreams. I guess that's my predictor!

We're planning on having 4-6 kids total. This is only our second (besides our angel baby) so I'm looking at quite a few more pregnancies yet. We even have the names already picked out!

 

[Hoping girl 2]

August3 it is my first and I can't wait!! I've been really lucky so far too and have had a relatively easy pregnancy so loving every second of it . Brit, I'm planning on three. But I'm 34 already so already planning on tryin again next November!

I've been having crazy dreams too. Only lasts night I had this really spooky horrible nightmares with ghosts and possessions... Awful! I have nightmares squally but never get bothered by them and just keep sleeping but this is ten first one since getting pregnant and it was so vivid it scared the hell out of me! Lol

 

[Lara310809]

brit, my husband only ever wanted one child; a boy, so when our first was a girl he was happy to TTC again. I always wanted two kids. After our second was born we were done, and we really thought it; in fact our second baby was such hard work she scared us off ever having another but then things got easier and I found myself wanting another. I told my husband, who looked scared beyond belief, but slowly he realised he wanted another one too, so eventually we TTC "the baby that was never meant to be".

I say don't ever say you're done, because you might surprise yourself! But in this instance we HAVE to be done, because our finances are already insanely stretched, and there's NO way we could ever afford a fourth. Ive been off work (a SAHM) since 2010, and after this baby i need to start thinking about getting a job and providing again, because the one wage isn't enough. I wouldn't want a fourth; the idea scares me. Actually the idea of three scares me; I spend most of this pregnancy thinking "what was I thinking?", but I know it will work out

 

[Lara310809]

We're planning on having 4-6 kids total. This is only our second (besides our angel baby) so I'm looking at quite a few more pregnancies yet. We even have the names already picked out!

wow, all of them? What are they, if you don't mind sharing. Not to worry if you don't want to; I'm just intrigued that you have them all already

 

[ready2Bmum]

I always have vivid dreams, but they've def gotten even stronger in pregnancy. It annoys me sometimes because I wake up feeling the emotion from the dream.

I have a dream in the first tri that it was a boy. I lifted him right out of my tummy to have a look and then put him back in!

August3- I'm down south...the weather was great up until this week!

 

[August3]

I wonder do we usually have strange dreams but pay them more heed because we're expecting, although I would get vivid dreams before my period so maybe it is related to hormones? I can add another strange one to all the dreams. My mother phoned me really early this morning in a panic - she had dreamed that I came into her bedroom and was calling her for help. Then when she woke up she had gotten frightened that I had phoned her for help and that she fallen back to sleep. Our little one will be her first grandchild and she's super excited! She then proceeded to give me a lengthy safety warning about the long maxi dresses I've been wearing lately in the hot weather and how I needed to take care coming down the stairs! We would like two children, but as I'll be 36 in a few days we won't be able to waste any time and will be trying again as soon as doc gives us the okay. I'm hoping to breastfeed so don't know how that might delay things.

ready2Bmum, it has been beautiful. People are saying this rain is a wee break but there will be weeks of great weather after that. Fingers crossed!

 

[ready2Bmum]

Yea I don't mind a few days of rain to be honest! The heat was killing me. I can't say that to loud though or people go mad!! I was asking the lovely ladies on here how they deal with the heat and most have aircon..I don't even have aircon in my car

 

[August3]

I have it in the car and it's been a godsend. In my last car I would have had the windows down and my hair would look like a bird's nest when I arrived anywhere.

 

[Lara310809]

Lol I'm English but moved abroad three years ago; my husband is local, so I didn't really "choose" to come here. The summers here are tough; six months a year I'm too hot, and the rest of the time I'm just about okay. If I dare say anything to my friends back home in England they tell me to shut up and quit complaining, because "at least I get a summer". But as soon as its nice in the UK, they're complaining about 25c, getting in their pools (some are lucky), and turning on their air con! I'd KILL for 25c right now; let alone to have air con and access to a pool; that would be heaven. So needless to say I've been getting frustrated with seeing their comments. The funny thing is when those same people that have been complaining about the heat, are today complaining about the rain. I don't think they're ever happy

It makes it worse when you're pregnant though; and the hormones can stick around for up to six months after the baby is born, so I've spent a lot of the time being too hot in the past three years - having had three pregnancies in as many years

 

[August3]

Lara, if we were having our usual miserable summer weather I'd be so jealous of you! I spent the last two summers in Switzerland and loved the heat but truthfully couldn't imagine coping this year with the bump. The days would be spent in the shade guzzling water and I'd be praying for a thunderstorm every evening to cool things down before bed. As it is in Ireland I'm sleeping with my feet out of the bed, highly unusual for me!

 

[Lara310809]

Lara, if we were having our usual miserable summer weather I'd be so jealous of you! I spent the last two summers in Switzerland and loved the heat but truthfully couldn't imagine coping this year with the bump. The days would be spent in the shade guzzling water and I'd be praying for a thunderstorm every evening to cool things down before bed. As it is in Ireland I'm sleeping with my feet out of the bed, highly unusual for me!

i remember how sucky it was to live in the constant overcast and drizzle, so to be able to have sunshine is lovely, but it's just SO hot. We get maybe one overcast day a month, but it's still so muggy that you just sit and sweat. You can't take the kids to the park because there's no shade and the slides etc get so hot to burns their skin. So you just stay indoors. But I know I'm lucky. I just spend my entire life wishing I was back home with the crappy weather and Christmas without so much as a frost is NOT Christmas

At least were not HEAVILY pregnant in the heat; that would kill me I think. I'm hot enough without having to lug a huge belly around! I've been pregnant through the summer each time, but only first and second trimesters

LOL even in this heat I have to have my bottom half under a sheet at night

 

[August3]

Yeah, I always have to have some sort of covering in bed too no matter how warm!
The only place to be in the heat is in the water. Are you near the coast?

I see you're expecting another girl. Three little ladies for you soon! There are three girls in my family followed by a boy. It's great to have sisters - always someone to go shopping with!

 

[ready2Bmum]

It was so hot last week I had no covers at all on the bed, just my pregnancy pillow. And a fan on all night!! Ha. Last few nights have been easier.

I'm very impatient for my gender scan. I want to sleep until next Tuesday!!

 

[August3]

All the best for your scan - it's very exciting!

I have a scan this Tuesday too. At our anomaly scan at 20 weeks, the sonographer couldn't see the bottom two chambers of the heart as clearly as she would've liked and wanted us to come back when the heart was bigger as was only the size of a grape. The top two chambers seemed fine so trying not to be overly anxious about it. It'll be nice to see baba again. When was your last scan?