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mollythewestie

Big Congrats to ickle on getting this far with twins! They must be really snuggled in there!

Codeaholic - thats pants about induction, thinking of you.


I had a midwife appointment yesterday. All good, although baby is head down, she said head is VERY low (she had difficulty finding it as it was hidden!). The baby is currently back to back, but I am only 31 weeks, so there is plenty of time for baby to spin around. I am measuring slightly larger at 33cm, but midwife wasn't concerned as she said a few cms out is nothing to worry about. And I love my new midwife, she is so lovely, really smiley, genuinely interested in me (how I felt, what I had been upto that day, plans for the baby etc.) and made me feel really at ease :j

mountainlioness

I've got a pair of the next ones - They are nice but I've had trouble keeping them up With the overbump panel trousers seems to stay up quite well but have had trouble with the side panel ones (which do look better) as I can't get the ties to go tight enough to stay up and be comfy IYSWIM

workinmummy

Thanks Sami and Searching. Just feeling sorry for myself and i'm not even the one in hospital.

Congrats to all who had their scan and were brave enough to find out the sex. Enjoy the blue or pink/lilac shopping.

shellsuit

Hi ladies, sorted keyboard out now thank God!!

I had a midwife appointment yesterday too, not my normal one but a stand in and she was lovely! She helped me up on the bed and back off it ~ normally I get left there and struggle to get off it because of the SPD.

Babies head has engaged so with a bit of luck he will be here soon (did I type that yesterday?! lol).

I've been shopping and stocked up, the house is tidy and clean ~ there is just some ironing to do which I'll leave till the weekend.

Bag is packed, car seat and coming home bag in the car boot, so all set to go now!

Single figures for me now ~ 9 days!!!!

Just off to get some Primula on toast, while I'll still got the craving for it lol

tiamai_d

Awww Tickle, at least you have a date and a plan rather than a lot of ho humming.

Sami_Bee

ML - I really think you are worrying over nothing (although I know it prob doesn't feel like it) your daughter will be influenced by you and OH and more than likely be just as strong, assertive, outdoorsy etc as you 2!
not as bigg an issue but my OH finds it really hard to 'get' Chris because he has mostly my personality (loud, confident, show off) but OH is quiet and shy. He's coming round to it now but I'm sure he is hoping for a quiet little girl he can be shy with (unfortunately I know that we're having a boy and with me as a mother I doubt he'll be shy )

sorry I'm rambling there but I hope you get what I mean :undecided

money_maker_3

mountainlioness wrote: »

SM I posted a little while back about this but finding it could be hard! it wasn't so much that I wanted a boy but that I was really worried about all the pressures on girls to be pink, fluffy, sparkly etc. DH and I are qute outdoorsy and sporty - I really like being able to do things that people don't expect women to be able to do (like am much better at footy than DH ) I don't really have much time for the fannying about, can't get mud on my dress, let's play princesses kind of thing I guess am just scared that she'll be turned into this pink frilly prissy thing and I won't be able to relate to her or share what she's into...

When you hear some mums on forums talking about girls they get all excited about having a daughter so they can talk makeup and shopping etc. I don't want to do that (I quite enjoy shopping but not all the time! I also want to go out on my bike, or climb a mountain and I definitely don't need to put makeup on to leave the house!) I want her to be stong and capable and be as good as the boys.

I'm just worried on her behalf before she's even here that she's going to still be unequal in society. So many people say they treat boys and girls the same but they don't - they expect less of girls, wrap them up in cotton wool, don't let them explore like boys. (DH's sister is def a product of this)

I know this is all really silly but the thoughts are just going round and round in my head and I get more and more worried and wind myself up.

You would love my daughter !!:rotfl:
She is the biggest tom boy around, but she loves PINK !!!

She has a high school musical room and princess dresses, but climbs trees, plays football, and generally gets mucky at every opportunity available!!

I think this is purely down to the fact that I was the same and she has grown up with my 2 nephews who are older than her too.
We still do the dolls and make up thing, but you are talking once a month she will take a notion to be proper girlie, the rest of the time she is happier in mud !!

SugarSpun

mountainlioness wrote: »

SM I posted a little while back about this but finding it could be hard! it wasn't so much that I wanted a boy but that I was really worried about all the pressures on girls to be pink, fluffy, sparkly etc.

I know what you mean. We were sure ours was a boy, and now we're having a girl I'm trying to plan ways not to make her too girly.

My beloved is going to teach her to cook so it doesn't become a girl thing (I'm limited in kitchen knowhow - you can have seafood curry, spinach salad, eggplant parmigiana, noodle salad or a sausage based something with lentils. He's been to culinary school), I'm going to teach her to climb as soon as she can reasonably manage it, and we'll enroll her in a martial arts class for balance and coordination. We can't stop the rest of the world from placing pink sparkly expectations on her, but we'll make sure she knows we don't expect or desire it and she'll develop as she may.

searching_me

dont worry ML zoe is more of a boy then you'll know she may like pink but she's the roughest little girl i know shes the first one to skim her knee, climb something or go on her own mini adventure she loves doing boys things with daddy (anything daddy does she does) to honest shes more of a boy then some of the little boys i know ... if you dont make them prissy they wont be believe me ... zoe may look pretty in pink but she'll kick the poop out of you while shes doing it x

searching_me

o just reminded me i knew a little boy who loved to clean hoover and wear his mum shoes ... zoe just looked at him like what the hell is wrong with you :rotfl: x