Passed GTT, doula news and a gender ?

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Passed GTT, doula news and a gender ?
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Sat, 12-22-2007 - 8:59pm

Hi, Ladies! Hoping your holiday and baby preparations are going well! Just wanted to share a quick update that I passed the GTT! Woo-hoo! I'm glad I can keep on eating cookies because they sure are tasting good! LOL! No comments on my weight gain either, so that was a relief ...


DH and I had our first meeting with our birth/postpartum doula last week. Super nice lady. She's seen 250-some births and has five children of her own. The cool thing is, we're the only couple who signed up for her Lamaze/Bradley class in January, so she'll be coming out to our house for private classes! DH and I feel like we're living in the lap of luxury, plus not having to travel during those cold winter nights will be great! She's even consolidating the classes a bit so that we wrap up in January, rather than going into February. Sweet!


The question I have revolves around if I'm a nutcase (LOL) ... I'm a Green-teamer, and I showed the u/s pics of Babyboo to our doula. She said she could tell what gender it is -- not by the u/s pics, but by looking at my eyes. So she looks in the outer corners of my eyes and says definitively, "It's a boy." She explained that it's kind of an old wives' tale, but after 20 weeks you can look at the red lines in a pg's eyes and if there are more on the right, it's a girl (because girls are always right -- ha!) and if there are more on the left, it's a boy. Given the old wives' tale/girls always right comment, DH says she's probably joking, but she wrote "boy" on my chart! (I looked in my eyes the next day, and the lines seemed pretty much equal on both sides.)


Long story short, I've mostly had feelings that Babyboo is a girl. So has my mom, who's very intuitive (she wrote me a note

Jane 

   

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Registered: 10-08-2003
Sat, 12-22-2007 - 9:12pm

So glad you passed the GTT!! WOO HOO


As far as the eye wives tale. I have never even heard of that.


I do think you are valid in your feelings.

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Sun, 12-23-2007 - 10:13am
Congrats on passing the GTT! And don't beat yourself up about your intuition over the baby's sex. I admire you for having the will power not to find out!!! That's awesome!
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Registered: 05-21-2006
Sun, 12-23-2007 - 10:34am

Jane,


With both pregnancies I knew the gender before I was told! With Zakir, I purchased boy clothing at 13 weeks. I found out at 15 weeks that he was a boy. My DH and I both had dreams he was a boy! :)


I guess sometimes our intuitions turn out to be true.


Yusra

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Registered: 05-10-2006
Sun, 12-23-2007 - 10:49am

Jane, I'm a big believe in a mother's intuition.

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Sun, 12-23-2007 - 10:54am

Congrats on passing the GTT!!

I have never heard of that old wives tale, but it sounds like a bunch of bunk to me :) I think that your intuition could be right more than the number of blood vessels on the left side of your eye :)

Jen


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Registered: 01-07-2007
Sun, 12-23-2007 - 2:43pm

Hello Jane,


Yay for Passing your GTT!!!! Enjoy those cookies : )


Honestly, I never really had a clue what I was having before I actually found out the gender. I'm not fortunate enough to have that intuition I guess : )

 

 

 

 

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Registered: 06-20-2007
Mon, 12-24-2007 - 12:22pm

As soon as I am done typing this I am going to the bathroom to look at my eyes! My cousin was a fellow green teamer and she had her SON last week. Her instinct was right. My instinct is girl, so I am with you on feeling nervous about building up all that anticipation, and then being wrong! But we will both instantly fall in love with these babies, boys or girls. Oh and I agree, girls names are MUCH easier. GL!
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Registered: 01-01-2007
Wed, 12-26-2007 - 3:00pm

Hey Jane!


Congrats on the good appt and passing the GTT!


I'm hoping having a feeling about what you're having isn't a requirement for being a good mommy, because I had no clue one way or the other before our big u/s.

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Registered: 01-11-2005
Wed, 12-26-2007 - 3:52pm

Jane,


Great news on passing the GTT!!


As far as the gender thing goes, I wouldn't put much weight in what your doula said.

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Wed, 12-26-2007 - 11:19pm

Wow!


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