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@cookie_dough: I'm so ready to give it up but he won't allow it yet. Knock on wood about the cold. We've been super lucky! He was really only sick for a couple days too because as soon as I got sick he was instantly better and he never even had to see the doctor. Gotta be those antibodies! At this point I think I'll try to wean after the worst of the winter cold season is over but hopefully it won't be too late. I don't think he will take well to seeing a new baby on HIS boobs!

@anandam: Whoa... I am so not ready for these things to start happening!

You guys are crazy with this fundal height stuff. I still have no idea what you're talking about!!!

Glad everyone had good appointments this week. I go Monday morning for my 16 week visit. Looking forward to it!!

@Beebug: Yay, congrats on coming out to everyone!!

@Mae: that is so cool! I'm at the salon now but will definitely try the phone on my stomach thing when I get home

@Beebug: congrats on sharing the fun! How does it feel to finally let the secret out?

Ahhhh telling my Fam was SO fun!

We had the shirt on DD and we got there, and my step Dad showed up too (my parents live apart right now, but are together, it is weird, but works for now, lol). DD was suuuuper clingy and wouldn't let go of me, after 10 mins or so my sister grabbed her from me and DD perfectly displayed the shirt and my Mom and sis read it at the same time. Oh my Mom's reaction was awesome, so shocked, especially at when and how far along we were, lol. My sister said "I knew it" but my Mom had no clue (I totally thought she did). Apparently I took too many snacks back to work as per my sister when she came home for lunch with me one day (she goes to school where I work). I told my Mom all the reasons I thought she knew and she didn't "see" any of it!

So yes, they were super pumped, and wow....it's out! I now want to tell my Grandparents and my Great Grandma in person, DHs Grandparents will get a call soon (across country) and then everyone else will be the card......and I better get on writing them all. I'm the fool that writes a different novel in each card and they take me forever. I am not sure how to sign the card though? Do I sign incl baby #2 or no? As that will bust things if people don't notice the front? Hmmmm.

@Beebug: Yay! Congrats on telling the family. So cute!

We had an exciting weekend. Saturday night I was up all night throwing up and still not keeping any fluids down by yesterday afternoon so we went to the ER for fluids. They wanted to check the baby to make sure everything was ok and we found out we're having another boy!!! So excited! Usually my mom or step mom babysits for us but they are both out of town so we had to bring DS with us until we could get a friend to watch him. He was waving at the baby on the ultrasound and clapping his hands. Aww I love it!

@Mae: Thanks, feeling quite a bit better just really sore and tired. Don't think it's directly pregnancy related other than my stomach being more sensitive than usual. I think it was mostly stress from our upcoming move. Sometimes I throw up when I'm stressed out and I just couldn't stop.

@Beebug: yayyy for telling everyone! As for the not feeling movement, I'm in the same boat. I'm pretty sure I was feeling some for a week or two, and nothing over the last 3 days. I'm just telling myself that the baby is so small at this point that if he/she moved into a different position or something, that could explain why I'm not feeling anything.

@skipra: Ugh, that sounds awful. Hopefully you are feeling better soon. But congrats on finding you out you are having a little boy!

@cookie_dough: I hope that is why! And that movement is consistently back soon!

Has anyone started decorating a nursery yet or thinking of ideas? We were hoping to move a few months after DS is here so I wasn't going to get crazy decorating a nursery, but those plans seem like they're going to be delayed.... So I've been checking out themes and I am really feeling an underwater theme!

@Glitter: I am definitely starting to think! Because we just moved in August, the walls are bare (and painters/builers white, bleh!!) and we have nothing in the room except a Queen bed, and we did have DDs change table and diaper shelves (we CD, and have a big stash, lol) in there too. DHs Dad was here for the weekend though and we moved it into her room, and are going to leave it there and start thinking about this room as a baby's room! I am hoping to find an assembled chocolate brown crib on clearance at Babies R Us in the next few months, and then strip and stain (to match the crib) existing furniture we have in the basement just being stored for that room, and then bringing in DDs change table, it won't match, but it's white and I am not buying two change tables! We are not themey people, so there probably won't be a theme like we didn't with DD, but we will aim for it to be super cute no matter what, lol.

We are going to paint this room and DDs sooner than later I think, but nothing colourful, we are very neutral, warm, not exciting paint colour people, ha!

Cheers for all the boys! I will probably be joining team blue come December 17th, but DD holds out hope that she's getting her sister.

As this is my third, I am soooo over nursery designing and glad I won't have to do anything except get a dresser of some kind for the LO's clothes. Ok, I MIGHT get a different sheet for the crib. But that's it.

@Glitter: I definitely don't think the economical part will really come into play until #2. I bought an insane stash (like 50+) of BG's (pocket dipes) and even buying some second hand the total cost was still a lot (I know being in Canada might be a bit of a factor?)

My post here, I talk about the costs I calculated:

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-who-is-cding-cost-vs-sposies-i-must-have-screwed-up

And while I think I am probably about breaking even now, #2 it really will, and then when I sell my stash, we will definitely see a little money back then too, so long as I take good care of these ones (so far, so good!). We don't even have any fancy prints or anything, pretty neutral and plain, it all realllllly works for us and I am glad I did it, but the way we did it, the cost really isn't "that much cheaper" even though it will balance out with a little more time under our belt

I so never thought about using shower curtains for window coverings. I have like 4 of them just stored because new house we went from 3 showers to 2, one being a glass shower, so only 1 shower that needs a curtain and all these nice fabric curtains! We have windows that I could easily split the curtain for two panels and it still be enough sizewise. Brilliant!!! @cookie_dough: Thank-you! lol.

@cookie_dough: We went from bigger windows to smaller (in kids rooms), so easily could fit them. I am struggling though. Maybe it's a bungalow thing, but the windows are so much higher (safer, I suppose?) so I struggle with curtain height/length, plus 9ft ceilings. Annoying! I bought these beautiful curtains for our room not thinking about the new ceiling height and now my curtains are floods, lol. I will deal until I someday splurge and get my shutters and then no curtains!

@cookie_dough: I feel like this is where the internet is awesome. Surely pinterest can help with this? lol.

@cookie_dough: Oh I wish they blocked everything here, lol. Guess you can't block the students though, so they can't on us? Not sure. Do you have an ipad? I just got one (though, it's works too, lol) and love pinterest on there. I have an old Blackberry so anything "online" on there is next near impossible, and I try to stay off the computer at home, but I do use pinterest a lot more at home via the ipad, I like it! It's a great site for ideas of all sorts. Some of it is a little crazy, I like to stay practical with it, but do get carried away sometimes!

@Glitter: Underwater theme sounds so cute! I am thinking more about DS's room in our new house because we have more time to think about the nursery. We didn't do a theme for DS's nursery but generally the colors are pretty bright - yellow walls and some dark turquoise in the closet and dresser drawers. I think we'll probably go a little mellower with the new baby's room. Maybe light green and navy or something.
@Beebug: @cookie_dough: The windows in DS's room now are pretty big. We have blinds but they're not blackout and I made some curtains out of fabric that I liked. Unfortunately I measured wrong so the curtains don't go down to the ground, but are not short. We just made sure the curtain rod was very secure and have had no issues with DS pulling on them yet.

We also CD and have found it to be really easy. We put DS in disposables at night and when we travel or will be away from home for a long time. We only bought 12 diapers and have found that to be plenty. We'll have to buy some more for #2 because I don't expect DS to be potty trained by then.

@Beebug: thanks for that link! 50+ is a whole lot from what I've heard. I understand 20-24 is doable, but we'll see as we go along.

I live in Trinidad (island in the Caribbean) and averaging 10 disposable diapers a day (newborns more, and less going forward) would cost us roughly US$1,125 per year. So i'm pretty sure that even if we go with the 50+ that you did and spend about US$600 it would be recovered with one child.

Also, fortunately since Trinidad is a big oil exporter, our electricity costs are SUPER cheap. We are fully air conditioned and use washer and dryer multiple times weekly. Our bi-monthly bill (we only get billed every two months) is about US$50 to $60. Water costs are even less - we haven't paid a water bill since we got married over a year ago because the previous owners had a credit on their account which was passed on to us. But even then, it is highly subsidised and extremely minimal. So i'm thinking the initial shipping costs would probably be well worth it! I still have to figure out types and sizes and all the details to know exactly what we will need.

Hi ladies just wanted to share that our dr is going to give us the early gender scan for free since we didn't find out on the blood test. So we have an appt on 12/10. So excited because otherwise we wouldn't find out until the anatomy scan which won't be until Jan.

For those that celebrate I hope you have a great Thanksgiving and hope everyone else has a great week!