Its so true that boards like this totally skew the statistics negatively. For the most part, women who don't take more than a couple months to conceive and don't experience a miscarriage have no need to join a forum like this. They may join to ask a couple specific questions but don't often hang around. And those who do also don't chime in "I've never had a miscarriage" on threads asking who has had more than 1 second trimester loss, and you're only going to get women who have, and it will totally make it look like a common occurrence (that said I do know a woman from my june bugs forum who has had 4 in a row, but that's extremely rare)
Anyway no I've not been shopping yet - I don't really have all that much to buy anyway being my third child. I plan to make more newborn nappies and I want to decorate some sleepers and onesies etc, ad I'm going to make a ring sling, but don't really need to shop for much of anything. Babies room with us until 18 months or so, and the cot is still set up as its basically just become part of our bed now, and our capsule has another kid's use out of it. We have tubs full of baby clothes etc so ya not much we need anyway.
we pretty much have all the big gear and I've begun diaper stockpiling when I find a really good diaper deal, a while ago Amazon mom was having an amazing deal on diapers but you could only get one case, but I still ended up getting a $40 case of diapers for around $12! Score!
I was expecting him to be a girl so yeah, it's a bit weird (so much for gut instinct!), but we didn't have a preference so we're really really happy! 
I wasn't supposed to have an appointment until next week but my blood sugars have been so low that my dh wanted me to go in, well that part went good, she said just eat when you don't feel good, it has been better the last couple of days since I've been eating every hour to hour and a half.
so I was a little worried but she did a quick scan because the baby was lying in a funny position and wiggling a lot so she couldn't get it on the Doppler which is funny because she found it in seconds when I was only 11 weeks...but I'm not worried about it anymore, there's another thread I posted about it in the second trimester board if anyone's curious but there's so many reasons why I'm not concerned about it and one is this is my 3rd and your body just does things so much quicker with subsequent children, it was still shocking at first though haha!
I'm also low maintenance, and my mom is low maintenance and has 2 girls... She basically just taught us how to brush our hair, so I still don't know how to braid my own hair or do complicated make-up!
