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@MrsCB: lol love your board name! I followed you, hope that isn't weird Dex is so cute and I loove your elephants! DH wants a tree like that one, but i'm trying to sway him more towards this type of tree. We're butting heads so hard on the nursery, uhg I want to shake him!

@MrsTiz: We did a similar theme for DS's nursery! We have floor to ceiling birch trees behind the crib and changing table like in your pic, but they are dark brown on a cream walls. We are most likely keeping the nursery as is for this baby since DS still co-sleeps and has no interest in moving into his room. We tried to keep the colors gender neutral with DS so we could reuse the bedding etc in case any future children were girls. Colors are mostly brown, cream/white, olive, and small amount of persimmon.

No nursery planning over here. I have ideas, and desires for furniture and rockers. But I just don't want to dive in yet. I think it will help once I'm through this nausea. It really makes me feel like crapola.

As for names, we've had 2 girl and 2 boy names picked out for a long time. Just names that we both like and have agreed upon. I wonder if they will stick once we meet the little one though...or if we'll change our minds.

I've had a rough couple of days. Last week, the same day I had the bleeding incident, I also learned that my grandma passed away. Life can throw a lot at you sometimes. I've been trying to just take it easy and process everything. I just want to get to my appointment tomorrow with my OB, my first one, and feel more at ease. I'm still a little worried about the blood from last week. I haven't had anymore, and I don't want to live all fearful. But it's been hard. And the crappy state I've been in due to nausea isn't helping.

I don't mean to be a downer. I'm doing alright. Just sharing the state of mind that I'm in. It helps to read the fun things that are on your minds And I hope that in a few weeks, I'll feel better and more into it all too.

@sweetooth: I'm so sorry about your grandma. My grandpa just passed away a month ago and it's so hard. I understand where you're coming from. I've been scared and terrified because after a year TTC and a m/c, it's like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'll be thinking about you tomorrow. What time is your appointment?

@MrsTiz: I think it would be more likely to get a false positive for girl than boy, simply because they actually saw a Y chromosome. If they said girl, I guess it could be possible that they "missed" the Y chromosome and it was actually a boy, you know?

@sweetooth: I'll be thinking about you tomorrow morning! Good luck

@MrsTiz: We are probably not going to wait. If it had been girl, there would've been more of a chance that it was wrong since they tell if it's a girl by NOT having any Y's, but the sample might just not have had them for whatever reason. Sometimes it's too early for them to be in your blood, etc. But with a boy there's basically no where else for Y's to come from except from the fetal DNA.

I was actually kind of confused because our genetic counselor warned me the results weren't 100% (although it was 99 point something, ha.) I thought she was implying it was a girl since she warned me, and then when we found out it was a boy I didn't really get it. Luckily I saw friends of ours over the weekend and my friend's wife is a genetic counselor. I asked her how the results of finding a Y chromosome could end up being wrong.

She said there's only a tiny chance it's wrong, and it's so minuscule you'd basically be a case study in a textbook. Apparently when they take the blood they don't know *where* it comes from. So what can happen extremely rarely is that the sample had some blood from the placenta, which could have gotten a mixed message and have some Y chromosomes, and the test could've picked up on that.

So long story short, nope we will not wait to buy stuff. We already bought a ton of really cute boy clothes :). DH kind of wants to order the dresser we picked out while it's on sale right now, but we're moving rooms in our house and we don't really have space to put it now. But if you feel more comfortable waiting, there will still be plenty of time after your anatomy scan to buy stuff :).

@MrsTiz: We went to BRU and got some cute stuff (some of it clearance) from the FAO Schwartz line, like this http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=19497996&searchURL=false. We also ended up at Buy Buy Baby one night and bought a couple more things. And DH ordered a bunch of stuff from Old Navy, like this - http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=6177&vid=1&pid=386430032 and this - http://www3.assets-gap.com/webcontent/0006/192/353/cn6192353.jpg. But most of what we're finding is obviously summery. So we need to stop buying until they start putting warmer stuff out.

OMG the genetic counselor just called me back( I may have called the lab this morning and bugged them). We've been playing phone tag for the past hour because when we came in from the playground, I had a voicemail!! Of course, I'm not going to be able to concentrate anymore!!!!! Normal chromosomes and its a BOY!!!!!!!!

@lilteacherbee: CONGRATS!!!

@lilteacherbee: wow another boy!! We can all compare clothes and how to not get pee all over!

@ms.janedoe: @MrsTiz: @MrsCB: @Ash: Thank You!!! DH wanted me to text him the results if I got them during school (ummm no!). I'm going to get some blue balloons and put them in our living room since I'll get home before him today!

3 November boys, how crazy!!!

@lilteacherbee: Congrats! Boys are great!

@MrsTiz: AHHH! I've totally been stalking target.com for all of my lunch break....I think boy overalls are going to be my weakness!!

@MrsTiz: omg you're right, too freaking cute!!!

So this is what DH saw when he walked in the door

@Ash: He had this goofy smile on his face and then he said "I told you so!!" because he's always thought it was a boy!

@MrsTiz: Which decals did you end up getting? White ones like in your inspiration pic?

We love ours!! So I know you will too! They were so much fun to put up and were super easy to do. They also came in a much smaller package from what I was expecting so look out for that.

@lilteacherbee: So cute! And so exciting!! I bet he was trilled!

@MrsTiz: love that paint color! Our nursery is teal so I love the dark wall.

@MrsTiz: That is the seller we used for our decals! We went with the ones that look more like the winter trees, but ours came with birds and also a free decal with a branch and an owl (I don't see the listing for the trees we have now, but I didn't look at them all). I think the white and green will really pop on the dark teal wall color...which I love!

What about using white bookshelves/ledges and frames to brighten up the space with your darker walls and furniture? It might also brighten up more than you think once you get the bedding and everything else in there.