General chatter while we wait (and commentary on the "pull out method")

@tingley that's so funny, my SIL said the same thing (they were "team green" for their third and she also didn't think to look until the nurses asked her lol). I feel like I would immediately want to know, but I guess I don't know until I'm in that scenario. I imagine the first thing you are really focused on is the relief if baby being out and that they're ok.

Tingley & @autumnal how old are your youngests? And how long have you been on the ttc train this go-round?

Dobs I love your adventures in cooking. I'm here for all of it. I need ideas for meals myself so if you have anything that's particularly good, do share! Especially if it's kid friendly. Good Lord, it is an impossibility finding food all my children will eat unless it's pizza or chicken nuggets. Those are literally the only two foods I can think of that they all universally like without complaint. Also sometimes steak but even that's not reliable with the youngest.The do NOT all like french fries, hot dogs, pasta, or mac & cheese (yes I know this is a pasta but it's basically it's own food category). I mean what the heck? These are like childhood staples. Admittedly though it's mostly my oldest who has texture issues with mushy things. But he hates potatoes of all kinds, unless they're chips.

Shae lol at hubby making y sperm; time will tell! I will be honest, I would of course love a girl. I'm back to being hopeful for a girl, but I am so afraid of being disappointed (like in the literal gender disappointment kind of way). But to be honest I really think the timing and everything is making a boy a lot more likely. The time I *think* we conceived and the time I'm pretty sure I was ovulating (not because of my ov pains that were conveniently absent that month but because of other symptoms looking back) were pretty much the same day. We dtd on ov day with all the kids, except for the m/c which was o-5, so I will definitely be shocked if it's a girl. From the looks of it, that theory about sperm being the faster swimmers holds true, at least in my experience. I suppose it's possible that the encounter producing the winning sperm was from earlier that week, but I'll be really honest, I don't remember when we dtd other than that friday because we were out of town so it was different/significant. We most likely did, but I don't remember the details beyond the hotel :/ Anyway it doesn't matter, but I'm just trying to keep my expectations realistic. History shows....this is probably a boy as well!
I think it was exactly that, the relief of baby being safe and pushing being over! It also reassured me that even though I had been sort of secretly hoping for a girl, that in reality I didn't actually care, and was just happy to have my baby!

This is our first month ttc this time round. My first, third and fourth were conceived very quickly, my second took a year with two miscarriages in that year before him. My youngest is 4, she will be 5 in November. How old are yours?

Interesting you say that about timing and whether you have a boy or girl. With my fourth I researched it lots, and then when I conceived her we definitely dtd way before ovulation and then I purposefully didn't close to it, and then she was a girl after 3 boys! So I do think there is definitely something in that theory. But what I have learnt from having my girl is that she is no different to the boys, if anything she is even more feral and rough, but that could just be her!
 
:rofl: yeah so bad. Idk why I thought that was a good idea. My mom does it for her mimosa but that’s champagne not tequila so oops. Got s* sleep. I’m struggling. It’s a miracle I made it through work at 7 more conferences.

Aww tingley A has a friend who is just like that. Love it. Though I selective remember half of this play date they had :rofl:

Gigs home chef is so not convenient for sharing. The ingredients listed and amounts are online not on the card they send you. I did like this pork meatloaf though! It was 10 oz of ground pork mixed with 1/4 cup of panko, 2 oz of part skim riccota, pepper, garlic salt. Topped with a layer of cheese spread (except idk what it meant by cheese spread lol) and parm to bake.

It’s more the things like oh I would never have considered:
- baking green beans and bell peppers and using garlic salt
- bruschetta but instead of bread it’s on top of salmon
- adding a dash of lemon when steaming broccoli

It’s not kid friendly at all. That’s a pretty common complaint online. There’s no way I’d get A to eat any of it. And the really like ooo that sounds exciting meals (for me) always end up being premium so they cost like $13-15/serving. I limit myself to the $9.99/serving meals so my food is good but like this week I’m having a beef meatloaf and a pork meatloaf dish and pasta. Not exciting. Though I loved pasta and meatloaf as a kid lol
 
lol @ "ntnp" -- once you're as educated as we all are here, I don't think ntnp exists! Good luck, hope you catch quickly!

Hmmm Dobs too bad they don't make it convenient by sending you the info in the box. But yeah even just meal titles I can work with. Just anything to spark, "Oh, that sounds good!" because food is a struggle right now. Also I have the very annoying problem that I will crave something so badly, but the second that craving is satisfied, I want nothing to do with that food anymore. The only exception so far was the crab masala with the naan. Ironically the actual crab legs I insisted on that I ate my fill of and had some left remain in the freezer because I have no interest.

My birthday's next week and I my Mom's taking me out to a place that has really good salmon, one of my fave dishes from a restaurant. As such, I am forbidding myself to eat salmon until then (even though it sounds good right now) for the above reason.

Cereal and my morning protein coffee have been good on repeat, and that's about it.

Anyway sorry to moan lol. Tomorrow's my NIPT test. I honestly don't know if I want to find out the sex or wait until the next ultrasound....I don't have any real plans on that still; more like I just want to find out when it feels right. Kind of like when we told the kids; I was going to wait but the moment felt right at the waterfall. I was going to record it for the channel (I want to make a video about all of this....maybe) but I feel like having a camera on all of us for such an intimate moment will make it feel unnatural, so I may skip that.

Idk...I have a lot of thoughts. all the time. lol
 
That sounds like a great way to protect the excitement for your birthday dinner salmon! Seems if you indulge your fill like the crab legs, by birthday dinner you’ll be over it. Haha!

I don’t have a channel or anything like that so I can’t speak on how that weight affects an intimate moment. I recorded when I told DH of our first child because he stealthy recorded when he proposed to me. I enjoy having those clips. And then when we surprised his parents about our first child, we sent that video to the rest of our family and they enjoyed that way of announcing. My husband literally caught his mom passing out from the news! When things calmed a little then we point to the camera so they could say something to the family! Haha

Personal use like that vs a channel are different things though. Plus, since i don't often set up and record us, we forget the camera is there; it’s still natural.
 
We recorded announcing to my husband's family with the 2nd and 3rd. The second it was on Father's day, we said, "let's take a family photo!" and we got everyone together and I said, "Ok, say 'gigs is pregnant'" -- it was hysterical. My MIL didn't get it at all. She just said it and continued smiling for a picture. Everyone else had expected responses, then had to spell it out for MIL, lol!!! For ds3, it was easter and we had them open little eggs with pictures of the positive test inside. This time we just told them at a family gathering; there was a game on so the guys were all in one room watching the game and the ladies were all at the table chatting (there were only 3 couples). I had hubby tell the guys, and I told the ladies. It was not nearly the production of the others; I was planning on something bigger but honestly it just didn't feel right this time. I just didn't feel like it to be honest lol
 
oh also I never shared those videos or anything with social media. I think you're right, there's like an added pressure or something unnatural about knowing you're recording something that may be put out for anyone to see. I don't like that feeling lol
 

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