My pregnancies with Michael and Liam were similar but not exactly the same. Morning sickness was worse with Liam...I carried bigger with Liam although I didn't gain quite as much weight.
Throughout this pregnancy, I have been comparing experiences and just having fun guessing based on what I have felt and experienced this time around. I can't say that I have a strong feeling either way...but then again, I never do.
So have some fun guessing with me, okay? I present you with some evidence- not based on some old wives' tale but on the pregnancy experience itself as compared to the past 2:
Similarities:1. Same type/duration of morning sickness
2. Same moodiness in general- although it has gotten progressively worse with each pregnancy and this fact can be confirmed by my poor, abused husband.
3. Same rate of tummy growth (as far as I can recall and from husband report)
4. Same 3rd trimester ice-crunching obsession
5. Same love of milk especially first thing in the AM and last thing in the PM. Ice cream is also very popular.
Differences:
1. No line on my belly yet--usually have it by now
2. Some odd things like: tooth pain, EXTREME dry eye problem, foot cramps
3. Carrying lower (by report of others and my own feeling)
4. No rib pain- probably due to the above
5. Lots of pressure down low- again could be due to difference#3
7. LOTS of movement and BIG movements at that, more than I recall- this one is fiesty that's for certain
What do you think? Boy or Girl?
Sorry for the weird spacing, blogger is not cooperating with me!
7 comments:
Hmmmm... I am going to guess GIRL! Not because I am very good at interpreting pregnancy symptoms but because I had two boys (born in 2006 and 2007, just like yours) and then I had a baby girl this year. PLUS I was also married in 2002, just like you! (I read your little bio on the side of the page.) So surely you will have a girl too, right? =)
Not that another little boy wouldn't be great, right? I always used to get so annoyed when people just assumed that I was pining for a girl after having the two boys.
GIRL! totally!
Because, well, just because I think it is. How weird is it that (when I remember you are pregnant, lol) I've always imagined la bebe as a girl?
twin girls? j/k!
this gives me naming rights, right? I'm totally thinking Kristina Bono...
Love, mamak
Oh, you forgot a major piece of evidence: I am having a girl, and since the fates have us living parallel lives... I'm ALL IN for pink!
Also: I have a major third trimester ice crunching thing going too. I had it with the other two as well.
I cannot WAIT to know!
I have no idea...my boy pregnancies were so so so similar and the girl pregnancy was so totally different. We had guessed Michael to be a boy long before we had the ultrasound.
HOWEVER...the one big difference between Michael and Andrew was Michael was LOOOOWWER...oh my heavens lower. I think because by the 3rd kid your tummy is a bit...um...looser. :)
So I don't think any of your new symptoms can be chalked up to anything other than the wear and tear of a 3rd pregnancy on the body.
I still have a gut feeling that it is a girl, though. Which probably means it is a boy, since I am almost 100% inaccurate at determining the gender of babies.
I don't know...I think I might be the first to guess BOY. But I think the biggest determining factor is if you know on what day the baby was conceived in your cycle. Like if you ovulated on day 14 - then baby dance from day 10-12 equals girl, from 13-15 equals boy. You don't have to share this info, but this has literally been true for every person I've known (and has scientific evidence to support).
But besides THAT - I had the sciata thing with both, much worse with David, and like Giselle said, I think that's the kind of thing that gets worse with each pregnancy. Morning sickness I was much worse with Katy - which I've always heard it's worse with girls.
So I'm going to predict BOY so you can keep working on that basketball team! (although I don't know if you're hoping for a girl. if you are - I hope it is for your sake!)
LOVE hearing everyone's ideas!
Mimi: I don't like the 'trying for a girl' assumption either...Of course a little girl would be lovely- but another boy is equally exciting to me.
And I know of at least 3 other moms (Mimi and Momommy included) who have two boys and either have or are expecting a GIRL...
Kristi- Pretty sure it isn't twins although given the magnitude of the movement, it does feel like there is alot of baby in there!
I'm feeling you're working on the trifecta - 3 beautiful boys!
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