Babies due in JUNE!

[Ferne]

I try to click to calculate my chinese age at conception as well as the month but nothing opens....

I'm having the same problem Sadie.

If you guys have your 1st ultrasound photos (the ones taken with the "dildo camera"), post them. Maybe we can try to guess using the Ramzi method. Or, better yet, if you're really interested and, again, HAVE those transverse ultrasound photos, I can send you Dr. Ramzi's email address. Email me.

He was right for me.

 

[Ferne]

I found another Chinese age calculator. Is this the same thing, Sunshine? It says I'm 12.
https://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/CAge2.htm

 

[Sunshine12]

I found another Chinese age calculator. Is this the same thing, Sunshine? It says I'm 12.
https://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/CAge2.htm

Think thats a different one hun. 12!!! lol
We dont get "dildo" scans in the UK so I dont think the Ramzi method would work for me.x

Have any of you started your nurseries yet? Im tasked OH to paint ours when he is off for the holidays. Im going for mocca and cream colour scheme and putting teddy bear motifs up on the walls. Ive got a cot bed and just using the wardrobe I already have in that room so dont think I have too many more big pieces to get (apart from a changing station which Im not sure about yet.) I know its quite early but I have a feeling that time is going to pass quite quickly and Id like to be a bit more organised than I usually am! x

 

[Oddori]

This Chinese predictor - linky
says I'm having a which is what I'm thinking too to be honest.
The Brazilian one (odd+odd) said though.. Ah well less than a month till I find out properly!

Hope everyone's feeling ok & looking forward to Christmas/the holidays.

 

[Sunshine12]

congrats on your avocado Oddori! :wave

 

[Oddori]

Cheers You too!
Mmmm avocado! Tasty
Will need to go buy some....

 

[sadie]

Haha. Ferne, you have to put your date of conception in the one under your birth date. Chinese age is either a yearor two older than what you really were at conception. (it depends on whether or not you were born before or after the chinese new year, as to adding one or two years). It supposedly calculatesthe chinese lunar month in the process!

 

[sadie]

Mine says girl....

 

[Sunshine12]

I cant find GMT on the dropdown so not sure what to put instead??...

Sadie, you are probably having a girl and me a boy as I reckon my predictions are all wrong! lol

 

[sadie]

No nursery planning for us, just yet. The room is there, painted and empty. We will just have some wall unit thing built, buy a crib and a rug, i guess... However, i plan on having baby in a basinette in our room for a while, along with a comfy chair for feedings, in the sitting room, outside of my bedroom.

We are going to tell his mom next week, along with our italian friends.... Only two of them know we are expecting!

 

[sadie]

Zero! And that would be funny. I think my baby's head looks like a girl's from the link you sent a while back. Who knows (and that yours resembles mine, so I have you pegged at girl, too!)

 

[Sunshine12]

No nursery planning for us, just yet. The room is there, painted and empty. We will just have some wall unit thing built, buy a crib and a rug, i guess... However, i plan on having baby in a basinette in our room for a while, along with a comfy chair for feedings, in the sitting room, outside of my bedroom.

We are going to tell his mom next week, along with our italian friends.... Only two of them know we are expecting!

Wow you kept it a secret this long? My inlaws would have went ballistic if Id not told them yet!

Im doing the same thing for first few months. Getting a moses basket to put next to our bed and Ill just breast feed either in my bed or in a comfy chair in the bedroom. Ive put a double bed in the nursery as well so that once baby is in there I can sleep or feed in there if I need to.

I just did the test and it says girl for me too !x

 

[sadie]

I'm still nervous about the pregnancy, with no valid reason why.... the idea of the amnio looming over my head has kept me from wanting everyone to know. Once the test is over and baby is ok, then i will announce it to all.

As for in italy, they are more careful than we are. Plus his mom is 87 and wanted to tell her after we knew all was pretty much ok.

Time for work, i'm running late....

Finally, it iis Thursday!

 

[Sunshine12]

I'm still nervous about the pregnancy, with no valid reason why.... the idea of the amnio looming over my head has kept me from wanting everyone to know. Once the test is over and baby is ok, then i will announce it to all.

As for in italy, they are more careful than we are. Plus his mom is 87 and wanted to tell her after we knew all was pretty much ok.

Time for work, i'm running late....

Finally, it iis Thursday!

Understandable Sadie. Enjoy work!! x

 

[sadie]

Aren't we quiet?
I just finished wrapping presents, baking cookies, a rice and spinach appetizer to bring to my sister's tomorrow, packing my suitcase, throwing out lots of garbage, walking the dog, etc etc etc!

As I was making the cookies, which is my nanny's tradition (grandma), i started to wonder if a 6 month old would be able to help make cookies next Christmas! Stereotypically, I imagined my little cookie helper to be a girl, and then felt guilty about that! A boy can help bake cookies too. And then I became all teary-eyed, as I was imagining all that is going on in my life atm, and how thankful and blessed I feel.

Final note.... It is really nice to be pregnant during the holiday season.

 

[Ferne]

Aw Sadie, you're absolutely right! Merry Christmas!

 

[Ellie Bellie]

Happy Christmas, Everyone!

I survived the week of work, cleaning, shopping, and wrapping. My parents arrived yesterday evening and we're all settling in nicely. We're heading out in a few for brunch with DH's family and then spending the rest of the weekend vegging around the house. Here's to no cooking and plenty of napping in front of the TV!

Sadie - I had similar thoughts about having a little helper with next year's baking (and for many years after!). I'm also realizing that our tree-decorating will have to be quite difficult to keep fragile ornaments out of little hands. Guess it's going to be significantly different next year! I can't wait!

 

[AngelBabyJana]

Hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas! Sorry that it's been awhile since I've posted, I've been having problems with my Internet. Plus trying to adjust to becoming a single mom, which hasn't been easy. I'm going to start reading and try to get caught up with this thread.

Oh yeah, I also found out on Dec 16th that I was having a little GIRL!

My two best friends & my 3 kids went to my ultrasound with me on Dec 14th. We had the ultrasound tech seal up the results in an envelope, my friend Betty made me a gender cake (we didn't know if it would be pink or blue on the inside), and then we had a party on Dec 16th where we all found out the gender together. It was so much fun. We also got a little pink bear from the ultrasound place that has the baby's heartbeat inside, sooo sweet!

I'm attaching pics from the ultrasound. We got a really good picture of our baby girl sucking her thumb.

 

[AngelBabyJana]

An itty, bitty penis.

Congratulations on your little boy Ferne! Isn't it exciting to finally know?

 

[Sunshine12]

ABJ, congrats on finding out its a girl!

Merry Christmas everyone. My family descended on Xmas Eve and left yesterday so Im getting back to normal now. Had a fantastic Christmas and OH spoilt me rotten as usual!
I had a glass of wine with Xmas dinner and boy was it lovely! I'd forgotten how lovely it was having a nice dinner and a glass of wine.

Sadie, I used to call my grandma "Nanny" as well. Ive never heard anyone else use that name before (with that spelling!)

Hope you and your bumps are all doing well. xx