Mid-August Testers

[InHisHands]

CH - YAY!!! You can do it!! Ovulation week is so exciting!

Nic- Have your doctor call me so i can know the gender!!! It sounds like three of us are getting scans in a 2 and 1/2 week period. What an exciting time! I bet those twitches you are feeling is baby, but they will get stronger if they are. I can't wait to see my baby kicking and moving again on screen. Do you think you'll be able to enjoy this ultrasound more than the last one? Has it sunk in more?

 

[snowflakes120]

Hey girls! I see all is well!

Hooray for BDing CH without any complications this month!

And Hooray for Hands & Nic's gender scan in 2.5 weeks!

AFM, taking another half day of work today to hang out with my cousin and her friend. Tonight we are going to another Hockey Game to see our favorite team - this time we are sitting 3 rows behind our teams bench!! Sooo exciting!! Hoping to be on TV!!

Want to start the SMEP today CD6 but not sure if that is going to happen bc we are going to be so busy but going to make a try.

 

[NotNic]

Yay to those BD'ing plans! Lots of for you all.

Hands - you sound like my Mum! She wants us to get them to put the gender in an envelope so we can still be surprised and she can start shopping for us! Every time I see her we have to say no.

CH - I normally am quite a planner, so I think everyone is really surprised I don't want to know yet. As for nursery etc. I'm not really a pink person, so even if we have a girl we would still have a pale blue or maybe a lemon nursery.

I am hoping that the 20 week scan is going to be the one that makes me relax and enjoy the pregnancy. I haven't allowed myself to really believe it or get overly excited as the anomoly scan has always been the scary one for me. I might become a gushy, baby mad nightmare after that I'm hoping that all those odd feelings might be baby's movement. Fingers really crossed here. 18 more sleeps until we get to see him / her again. x

 

[CHDickey]

Thanks ladies!

Had the whole fam damily over plus a couple friends last night to watch the Cotton Bowl. I graduated from the University of Arkansas and was very proud to watch them win! Now this morning we are off to tailgate and watch the Houston Texans in their first ever playoff game! Hopefully that's a win too!

Hope y'all are having a lovely weekend!

 

[MrsBea23]

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Nic - I am due on the 18th April (101 days to go) but I am finishing work about the 14th March because I have to take my holidays before I go off. Have you figured out when you are going off? I plan to take the year and then go back pregnant and go off again he he.

Hands - have you got a boys name picked out?

CH & Snow - Did you get SMEP started?

Bex - When are you due to O? Are you doing SMEP this month also?

Lisette - How are you getting on?

Here are some pics of my Nursery so far. Nic you might want to look away its very pink lol.

 

[MrsBea23]

hmmm its not liking my pics, I will try again later.

 

[InHisHands]

bea - I do have a boy and a girl name picked out. No one seems to like the boy's name... but then again it's not their child.

Boy - Dexter Atticus

Girl - Hannah Grace

For a boy, i wanted Gabriel... but hubby loves Dexter and asked if we could put Gabriel off. If we ever have 2 boys, he said we could use Gabriel for the second. Sounded reasonable. We did a lot of compromising.

He wanted to name our girl Grace Hope-Love. There was NO WAY i was going to let that happen ROTFL. So i got to pick out the first name. Hannah (which means Gracious), and let him keep Grace for the middle name... that way he can call her Gracious Grace as a (pet)nickname. -- he loves that.

For a boy.. i have always loved the name Atticus ever since i read the book "To Kill A Mockingbird". My husband finally agreed to let me have it as a middle name, if he could get first pick at the boys first name. We had an agreed list of: Gabriel, Dexter, Craig, and Benjamin, but how we rated each was different. Dexter was his number one pick and thus that is what we went with.

 

[NotNic]

Bea - I'm thinking of going off on the 11th May. I'm due on the 7th June but I have a feeling that this baby might be early. I'm going to use some holiday before and take the full year off too. I don't know if I will be pregnant when I come back but I plan to start trying around that time! Can't wait to see your nursery pics. When did you feel comfortable enough to start buying things?

Hands - you and your oh are so organised. We don't have names (we have a few girls names we like bit no short lists and no boys names), we haven't bought anything big yet, and haven't really made any proper decisions. After our 20wk scan (at almost 21wks) we are going to have to pull our fingers out!

Hope everyone else is doing well. Fingers crossed for those oving days!

Lisette - how are you feeling hun? Xx

Hope everyone else is okay xx

 

[MrsBea23]

ooh hands my DH wants Grace as well. So I am thinking we will use that as a middle name so weird guys love this name! I know a girl called Grace and she is lovely but she is a lesbian and it kind of puts me off not that I mind if my kids are gay but I guess I would prefer if they weren't lol.

My front runner at the moment is Ariana, Aria for short. So it would be Ariana Grace.

I like Dexter, like the cartoon.

 

[MrsBea23]

Nic we posted at the same time.

I didn't really buy anything until after my 20 week scan but I have made up for it now and I have pretty much everything I need just a few bits and pieces to go like wipes and nappies and things oh and bedding for the cot although we wont be using that for another 6 months or so. I got soo much stuff in the sales it was fab.

 

[NewbieLisette]

Hey girls!!!

Sorry I've been MIA the last few days! Just exhausted & sleeping during all the time I'm not working or trying t put together meals

Been soo lovely catchin up on this thread this morning! All your names are beautiful you guys! I haven't allowed myself to get to attatched yet but H seems to feel this one is diffrent so that's nice for me to see...his gut is ussually spot on! Last time we had thought of names & seemed to agree on Melina or Olivia for a girl & Mark or Matthew for a boy...no middle names yet! Can't wait to see pretty pink nursery pics

Tons of for a fab triple BFP celebration this month!!! How you girls getting on? Busy I hope

More bloods tomorrow & an email to my Dr so FX #'s are still doing well! I had to tell my boss on Friday which was very weird & "real" all of a sudden but it was a relief for me to not have to hide or lie about appts & stuff.

Hope to have more energy to stay awake & keep up with you guys this week! Lots of love

 

[MrsBea23]

Hope it works this time

 

[MrsBea23]

Ah there we go, it is funny when this room just had a double bed and side tables it was a good size with all the baby stuff in it seems to have shrunk lol. At least the wardrobes are built in so i don't need to jam one of them in.

Lisette sorry you are so tired hun , Good luck at the appointment this week I am sure it will all be fine.

I love Olivia but a friend of mine is going to use it so it is out for me, I think it was Bex that said it is her sisters name.

 

[NewbieLisette]

Awww beautiful pics Bea! Sooo sweet Thank you for the PMA!

 

[NotNic]

Beautiful hun. Not too pink for me at all You guys have done a wonderful job.

Lisette - Great news that OH is so positive. I'm feeling good things for this one for you too. Can't wait to hear how your appointment goes tomorrow. x

 

[Srbjbex]

Good evening ladies!

Bea - your nursery looks fab. Very pretty and girly, I think the rest of your time at work is going to go in a flash!

Lisette - bea is right, my sisters name is Olivia (and I have another sister Alice). Both pretty names

Hands - love the name Atticus! Made me think of To Kill A Mockingbird as soon as you said it! Unusual too! Maybe you should consider Harper for a girl, although maybe you don't want to people to think you named her after the Beckhams!

Nic - I can't believe how far along you are already, time is going so quickly. Bet you can't wait for maternity leave to start. In my ideal world I will have a full year off and then go back to work pregnant.

CH - I have no idea what sport you are even referring too! But I am sure it is fun! Ahahahah! And I hope your team won.

Snow - hello!!

Fairly quiet weekend here, finally taken the Christmas decorations down, so everything looks really bare, but also really tidy. I don't quite know when I will O as I'm nit sure if the AC will have an effect, so not planning SMEP but going for every other day, and twice at weekends! Did an opk today and was very negative, but hope to ov midweek. Come on eggy!!

 

[NotNic]

Yay come on Bex's eggy! It's going scarily quick now. I don't know where the last 6-8 weeks have gone!

Bex is it just you and your two sisters? I have two younger sisters - Sophie and Chloé. There is a bit of a family competition over the name Isabella. Growing up we used to argue about who got to use it. Luckily for my sisters the name has fallen out of our top spot as one of OH's best friends has just called his daughter that. Still if our LO ends up being a brunette we'll probably still consider it. When we first were trying we also came up with Imogen (OH's favourite) and Felicity (which was mine), though we're not so sure any more. Still, I think girls are much easier to come up with. We're sitting on google now trying to think of some boys ideas and we're not doing very well at all!

I like the idea of us all trying again at the end of our maternity leave. It means we'll be back here TTC'ing together again.

 

[Srbjbex]

Nic I have 2 brothers aswell! They are Thomas and Edward. I am the oldest 5. My favourite boys name at the moment is Elliot, also I really like all the classic 'king' names....Henry, William, George, and what I call world war one names...alfie, Archie, arthur etc.

In fact, there are lot more boys names I like than girls!

 

[NotNic]

Gosh you do have a big family! I thought I had a lot! OH is one of four and each of his siblings have partners. Including in laws I have 5 sisters and 4 brothers. OH really likes Elliot, but I have a good friend called that. He also likes names that I think are a little bit wimpy (I won't name them in case I offend anyone!). Our surname makes some boys names tricky too.

 

[MrsBea23]

Wow bex 5 kids that is a big family, how many kids do you want? lots of your way for this month and an o this week.

I really like the kings names and if I went that route I would want a queen for a girl Elizabeth, Victoria etc.

Nic - my sister called her little girl Isabella so that is out for me as well. I really like Lewis for a boy.