https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 11 May 2026 08:10:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128807 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:35:02 +0000 Mrs. Train 128807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have four and that's where we stop. All I can say is be careful what you wish for twins can really kick your behind as a parent. But I must say they are rewarding as well. And as for identical twins they can look different especially with people they are around a lot. My twins are identical ( no twins in our families by the way) and they look different to me. Other people say they look a like but not to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128805 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:33:40 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 128805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: Awww! That's a true Hellobee success story! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128754 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:26:17 +0000 PawPrints 128754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, which is a very good thing. I've been *completely* uninterested in children for my entire life, and that's still pretty much true. Reading Hellobee has helped me start to think about having a child as a realistic thing I might actually do in the coming few years. I am now able to contemplate the idea without having an immediate panic attack. :) Definitely valuable, since I made the decision (for a variety of reasons) to commit to my husband before we got married that I'd be open to having biological children. He is raring to go! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128645 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:33:04 +0000 LuLu Mom 128645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No we have always had 2-3 in mind, fairly close in age. I think it makes it more realistic after seeing so many in the community with the same ideas! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128643 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:30:29 +0000 Honeybee 128643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Ah, someday, when the kids can entertain themselves. :) I am so looking forward to that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128625 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:16:28 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 128625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: Yup! And us mamas are going to sit back, relax, watch them play and have a long conversation! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-128600 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:04:48 +0000 Honeybee 128600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Done! Someday when we all meet, our kids are going to get along sooooooo well. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-127684 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:33:54 +0000 SugarplumsMom 127684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wanted 2 and still want 2, but now I'm a little more scared about it! ;D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know/page/2#post-127678 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:24:17 +0000 looch 127678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No! In fact, it's put me more firmly in the one and done camp! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127676 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:13:55 +0000 SAHM0811 127676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>HelloBee and Facebook... oh man, do they make my uterus skip a beat sometimes... especially FB because I see cute baby pics or birth announcements all.the.time!! it is insane how many 2012 dragon babies I know of!</p> <p>Funny though about HB because I would think it would cause the opposite effect since there are oftentimes discussions on how hard it is (especially in regards to having two kids). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127670 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:51:55 +0000 mediagirl 127670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know yet. I'll let you know in about 9 months after we've had our little girl for a while. Honestly, it can't change what we can afford or our lifestyle so, I may crave another baby but it probably won't change our end number. I think seeing pregnant women would make me have baby fever more than hearing people talk about it on here. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127290 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:46:04 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 127290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: Let me know when you are going to have #3 and we'll coordinate, since our other 2 are both a month apart! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127285 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:43:42 +0000 chopsuey 127285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Haha cool thanks! Will pass it along and see if they're interested. :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127284 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:43:13 +0000 Andrea 127284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: ohmygosh, that is crazy that DH and BIL do not know. get them tested?!? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127282 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:42:21 +0000 mrbee 127282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: Yah, it's $99! <a href="https://www.23andme.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.23andme.com/</a></p> <p>Twins are tough on the parents, but it's great being a twin! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127101 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:34:21 +0000 chopsuey 127101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: How do you find out? DNA test? The inlaws always assumed the twins were fraternal until the issue of Time featuring identical twins was released. HAHA. I noticed that identical twins didn't look identical! So I asked DH how he knows he's fraternal.<br /> It would be so much fun to have twins! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127095 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:29:34 +0000 Arden 127095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I already had baby fever before I joined Hellobee, but it has encouraged me that our timeline was wise and everything will work out well. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127080 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:21:05 +0000 Mrs. Bee 127080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>no way we are two and done! </p> <p>but it is very exciting to follow along with the parenting journeys of so many others! hellobee often knows pregnancy news faster than friends! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127078 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:19:10 +0000 lemondrop 127078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, in fact some of the multi-kid posts here have made me re-think how close we want them to be- maybe a little farther apart, in fact. </p> <p>As soon as we brought our son home from the hospital we knew we wanted to start trying again before the end of the year. </p> <p>Ideally I didn't want to give birth twice in the same year (technically possible since Cam was born on Jan 7th!). So now we'll re-evaluate again in the fall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127076 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:17:30 +0000 mrbee 127076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: Easy to find out!</p> <p>Anyway identical twinship isn't genetic, as I understand it... only the fraternal twin gene. I'm an identical twin and would have loved twins, so was sad to hear that one... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127065 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:09:25 +0000 chopsuey 127065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: You know, they don't know for sure. (He was adopted). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127035 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:34:55 +0000 mrbee 127035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: Is he identical or fraternal? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-127032 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:33:13 +0000 heffalump 127032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It hasn't changed my mind at all. I knew I wanted another baby soon after LO was born, and I wasn't even on here. But DH is making me wait, for good reasoning. He thinks with his head, I think with my heart. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126990 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:06:15 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 126990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Maysprout: Oh my! That is one thing we actually worry about! Luckily with NFP and other methods, I'm 3 layers deep in protection... though sometimes nature finds a way *cringe*.</p> <p>The most likely way we would add to our family is if our birth mom someday had another child that she wanted to place, otherwise, we're probably out of the game for now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126877 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:19:33 +0000 MamaMoose 126877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been having a rough time with being pregnant between the symptoms and the stress. So part of me is secretly hoping that at my ultrasound tomorrow they'll tell me it's twins so I can have my two kids with one pregnancy!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126874 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:18:29 +0000 chopsuey 126874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: DH is a twin so here's hoping! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126867 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:16:59 +0000 Maysprout 126867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: I don't usually have dreams about HB people but I did have a dream you were pregnant awhile back. </p> <p>I'm excited people on the boards are having their second so I can see how it goes, and my friend just called this afternoon to say she's pregnant with her second, so at some point all the good news will probably be a bit of encouragement to try sooner than later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126856 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:13:55 +0000 Honeybee 126856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ Mrs. Jacks - Boys are pretty special. :) Nudge, nudge... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126836 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:10:07 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 126836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: I know! I keeP thinking that having a third to have a boy could be awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/heres-what-i-really-want-to-know#post-126834 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:09:14 +0000 cyneswith 126834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It did make me think a little more about "what if I want more than 2?" I'd just try to adopt more, which was the plan if we had two of the same gender anyway. </p>