May & June 2022 Munchkins

[BabyBrain80]

I'm in Scotland x

 

[Bloblo]

Im South African, living in Poland

 

[YoshiPikachu]

Tomorrow I go in for prenatal care. Found a place that will take me without insurance until I can get on medicaid. Hopefully everything will go alright. Nervously waiting to see if I’ll get miring sickness. I had it for a couple of months with my daughter and almost my whole pregnancy with my son.

Edit- I’m boring I’m in America. XD

 

[Sander]

That’s great you’ve been able to get in so early Yoshi! My first appointment with my midwife isn’t until November. My ultrasound is tomorrow morning though!

 

[YoshiPikachu]

If you’d answer this question for me please.

Would it be weird if

 

[Babybump87]

I’ve heard staying team yellow is amazing but I have no self control to do that

I’ve told the people who know we’re pregnant - the nicest part is people are excited for us and it’s like a new experience even though it’s our fourth baby. I found this picture I want to recreate for our announcement but tweak it a bit to include the gender once we are 100%! Once I get my exact dates I want to book a gender scan for early December and then announce after that.

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aww love the announcement !

Totally get you ! When I was pregnant with DS it was just a totally different feeling ! We are going to announce after our 12 week scan .

 

[Babybump87]

We found out with DS1 but stayed team yellow with DS2....it made it a little different and my OH told me the sex at the birth. It was brilliant!

We will be getting genetic testing done, will start with nipt and take it from there. Last time the genetic councillor offered to hide the sex on results but make up a wee gender announcement for us which the boys can open....so hopefully all is well and we get to do that this time

We will be happy either way but I'd maybe be more comfortable with another boy....I know how they work
We have to start from scratch again, all the baby things/clothes/cots/prams are long gone.
This is our last try too xx

So sorry for the loss of your beautiful boy .

aww think of all the fun shopping trips for baby things either way ! We have everything for either gender but I know I will still buy clothes like there’s no tomorrow hahahx x

 

[Babybump87]

I’m also in the UK .

 

[Sammyrose334]

I’m in America. When do you ladies start buying for baby? Last pregnancy I started buying clothes right away and then had the miscarriage so now I’m worried to start buying early again.

 

[Bloblo]

I guess that depends what you need to buy. If you need to get everything I'd say I'd start around the 20w mark. But personally I don't need much (maybe a new bassinet) and a couple of outfits and some diapers. So I won't start buying until after 30w. Nothing wrong with getting a few smaller things early just to get excited though
I have a lot of blue and red newborn clothes as I was sure my first would be a boy and I just love boy clothes. We bought so much at around the 12w mark. The girls didn't mind wearing blue one bit (and still mostly dress in boy clothes)

 

[Sammyrose334]

That’s true. I need everything as this is our first pregnancy. I want to start buying clothes already so bad but I refrained myself so far. Once I hit the 12 week mark then I will probably start buying items.

 

[crazy4baby09]

I'm in America too. This pregnancy I have already bought a set of onsies. I will wait to buy more until I know the gender. If it's a boy I need to get a lot of new things because we donated a lot of my son's clothes a few years back. If it's a girl we wouldn't need as much because I have a few things from my girls. I already have the big things: crib, stroller, car seat, playpen.

 

[Sander]

With my 2 middle boys we bought basically nothing because I had so much from my oldest. This time I’m planning on buying a couple of things after my scan tomorrow - then waiting until we officially know she’s a girl to buy some more stuff Because my kids are all close together we have sooooo much baby stuff we really don’t need anything in regards to gear. My dad also upgraded my youngest’s car seat for us so his infant seat is ready to go. It saved us a ton of money to reuse all this stuff, but I’m also so ready to start getting rid of things once this baby grows out of it! I feel like a baby gear hoarder

 

[Dream143r]

Don't mind me over here. Just drowning in my gender disappointment sorrows. Got the results this evening. It's a girl.

 

[Sander]

Don't mind me over here. Just drowning in my gender disappointment sorrows. Got the results this evening. It's a girl.

Sorry Dream I’ve been there (multiple times!) Be kind to yourself. I found picking a name always helped my GD and helped me bond with the baby

 

[YoshiPikachu]

Probably a dumb question but how do you find out so soon what you are having?

 

[Suggerhoney]

@totally came on here to see what ure sneak peak results were @Sander and I'm so happy for you ure getting the girl u so wanted. So exciting. Congratulations hon.
Do u think she will be ure last or do u think ure go on to have any more in the future. Bit of a stupid question to ask when pregnant because I was adamant Harley wud be my last but I definitely want to try for one final baby. I want to stay team yellow but if we are blessed I bet I end up caving and getting a gender scan lol.
I wud love another boy so we have 3 boys close in age but wud be happy if it was a girl. The girl clothes are so adorable.

 

[Suggerhoney]

@BabyBrain80 so happy to see u here hon. Really happy ure finally getting ure rainbow.
Regarding all the testing we have decided if we are blessed with anther baby when we start ttc again we won't be having it. It caused so much unnecessary stress for us when we got the high risk results. Our baby is healthy and I now feel I waisted my whole pregnancy worrying. So won't be bothering next time. Can understand u wanting it tho and I pray it all goes well this time around. U got this hon.
I wud love another boy too and I'm saving everything just in case.
Wishing u a very happy and very healthy 9 months hon.


@Dream143r
Sorry u didn't get the results u wanted. I'm sure u will feel alot better in the weeks to come. She will be beautiful.

 

[Suggerhoney]

Also @Sander can't believe ure already 9 weeks that has gone so so fast. Its crazy how fast it all goes. Blink and u miss it. Enjoy hon.

 

[Bloblo]

@Dream143r So sorry about your gender disappointment. I've been there and itbis hard and such a complicated feeling
Just know that there is nothing different about raising a girl. They are just as crazy, just as rough and in the case of my girls, just as into diggers, cars, dirt and wrestling as boys.
That being said, take some time to grieve the loss of the idea of having a boy. Feel free to rant here if you need to.