predicting the sex
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Topic: predicting the sex
Posted By: lizzle
Subject: predicting the sex
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 12:17am
| Stupidly I agreed with Lewis not to find out the sex of the baby....now this is killing me!!!!!! So have decided to resort to more unorthodox methods. However, due to my mind-boggling original predictin skills with jake, will try other people's ideas. So far have tried predicting with the Chinese Lunar chart (girl), dangling a pendant over my belly (kind went back and forth in a circular manner..hermaphrodite), was going to mix urine with bleach until I read that it can cause dangrous fumes and explosions. Any other old wives tales for me to try????? |
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 6:46am
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I used one of my rings hung from a piece of my hair and it actually did predict what sex my kids were. As a joke we did it to my mum when I was pregnant with abby and it got all five of us right to. If you have any other children it will pick them up first. backwards and forward means a boy around in circles means a girl. You can either hold it over your tummy or stretch your thumb and index finger into an L and do it over the skin part of your hand by there. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 8:11am
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I did that too Vick...... didnt work. I reckon if your carrring out front its a boy all the way round its a girl. Maybe get your tarot cards read. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 8:53am
lol... i only carried out front with both my girls.
there's other things like what sorts of foods you are craving.... salty savoury things means boy, sweet sickly junky food stuff is girl... sorta works.. both times i was crazy for biscuits and ice-cream and went completely off chips etc. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 10:35am
| Okay well i wanted corn and tomatoes. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 11:54am
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hhhm dunno what that means. lol... with paris i had a thing for minted peas by the bucket load.. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 12:56pm
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I have no cravings.....well for a while it was chocolate cake but for the last week or so...nothing!
According to my scan I am having a girl......is that consistent with the theory? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 2:29pm
LOL  Everyone has a theory! Random people - like shop assistants - have started predicting what I'm having! General consensus so far is that its a girl, tho I have had a feeling from the start its a boy - but who knows! I have been told its a girl cos I'm all out the front and that its a boy cos I'm all out the front!! Might try the ring and hair thing and see what that says...------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 2:35pm
Very weird... did the ring thing and held it over my belly. Well it just hung there doing nothing for a bit then it started doing big swings back and forth!! A boy apparently. I guess we'll find out in a few weeks if its right  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 10:26pm
Lizzle, silly! You know how terrible you are with suspense!!! Other people's pregnancies are bad enough, now having to wait another four months to find out about your own! What were you thinking? haha 
And don't buy into the old wives tales I would have been having a boy had I listened to anyone. Actually did listen to everyone. Very suprised at having a girl. I'm an idiot. 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 10:29pm
| well, i figured if I coped with not knowing for nine months with Jake I could do it again. Now I wish I was like those cows at massey with the windows in their stomach (seriously, the have some plexiglass thing in for vet students), so i could have a wee peek. I'm thinking of studying sonargram things so I can tell from the ultrasound next time. |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 10:33pm
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its quite easy to tell boy from girl using scan pix.i compared my two all the time when i was preg with Harmony lol ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 11:28pm
| i shall try. the scan pic I had, it's hard to tell head from butt so thats no real help |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 11:43pm
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if u can find the one of the femur bone then u should see the bits?? ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 4:30pm
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hey that's right i remember you telling me about that site that showed you how to distinguish which was which.... ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 5:20pm
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Well, everyone said that we would have a girl.... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 9:57pm
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i think its http://www.pregnancyabout.com - www.pregnancyabout.com ?? ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 1:00am
| I will go to the doctor's this week (have been avoiding them after the said "blood test" - honestly, i tore while in labour, but am still terrified of a blood test needle) and try and work it out...probably still be wrong though |
Posted By: nadine05
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 12:57pm
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Ive just had a girl after four boys and really didnt notice anything different with the pregancies ....... except with my girl i noticed that my hair really slowed down in growth! I could go much longer between shaving my legs, plucking eyebrows etc (and slower hair growth is one of the old wives tales for girls) Also i hardly gained any weight with her (3.5kgs) and with the boys i gained anywhere from 14 - 24 kgs!
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 1:13pm
| Apparently when you had intercourse can predict what it is aswell (im not so sure but its interesting) |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 3:06pm
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Hey Nadine.....I also noticed that I dont need to shave as often....I am having a girl!
That is just weird..... Every one was telling me that I am having a boy.....but they were all wrong. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 3:23pm
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Hey ladies...Just found two sites that help you predict the sex of your baby....I did them both....1st one said I have 59% chance of having a girl...while the other said 63% of having a girl....hmmm
Give it a go...... www.amazingpregnancy.com/oldwivestales www.childbirth.org/articles/boyorgirl.html ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 10:55pm
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Okay first one says 73% girl.
second is 86% chance a girl. we'll see...secretly I'm hoping for a girl. But I was hoping for a girl with Jake too, as once he arrived I was besotted and couldn't imagine having anything else. Course as my friend pointed out "what if our daughters are like us when they are tennagers", and then my mother laughed and laughed and laughed.....maybe I should rethink the whole girl thing.... |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 12:55am
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hahahahahahah that's hilarious.
My theory is that if I'm a batty mother then our lives will turn out something akin to the 'Gilmore Girls' and Hannah will be the wise and sensible one. But yeah, if Hannah did half the stuff I did I wouldn't be too impressed! Atleast if she goes through a stage of experimenting with drugs I'll have some friends who can take her partying and remain relatively safe! (Yeah, it's a stretch but there is a positive in anything!) hehehe |
Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 11:44am
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Hi withthe whole sex thing, I want to know but the baby still dosnt want to share... With the hair and ring thing we do it over wrists, so far it has beenright for my nana, my mum and 3 of my sisters and my brothers wife... it said id have a boy then a 2 girls and a boy again, does this include m/c im not sure.. this will be the last baby and i really feel as if its a girl this so well just have to wait and see i suppose, but its not fun.. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 11:56am
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Hey Judith, you have reached 21 weeks...how are you and the bub doing? I hope you are both well....you guys are always in my thought.
I know it is fun to predict gender and also hoping for a perticular gender baby...but Now that I am pregnant (and had a few scares), all I want more than anything is to have a healthy baby. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 3:03pm
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hahaha Nikki!! I like the gilmore girls, that would be cool ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 3:03pm
I think I only want boys because I still want to be Peter's favourite girl  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 6:13pm
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I think the ring thing does pick up miscarriages, it did with me and my mum. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 11:12pm
| Maybe Nikki, it'll be more like Ab Fab. You can be Eddie, trying to be hip and fit into Lacriox, and taking drugs and going stuff and Hannah will; be like Saffy and sit at home studying and telling you off for your silly ways. |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 10:06am
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Hehehehe, LOOOOVE ab fab, that's more what it was like with me and my mum! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 2:12pm
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just did those 2 websites. First one said 73% chance of a girl and the other 65% chance of a girl. I still think its a boy tho... ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 2:13pm
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Woo hoo!! Just noticed that I'm a groupie now! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 2:17pm
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ohhh....Aimee I cant wait to see what you end up having!!!
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 4:28pm
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Me too. Am starting to get a bit impatient but still have ages to go! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 4:41pm
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Tell me about it....you have 8 weeks....I dont know how I am going to go thru the next 9 weeks....I just wanna have my bub in my arms now (safe and sound)!!!!
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 5:31pm
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heheheheheh Ab Fab
Yeah, I'd have to say that is probably a likely scenario. I'll be trying to reclaim my youth while Hannah is going through the 'grown up' stage in her teen years. I'm sure I won't mind if she's geeky... I'm going to be ultra protective. Instead of the girl's father toting the shotgun it'll be me, standing outside with my weapon waiting to meet the guy taking my baby out (for an expensive date at his cost of course!)
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 8:58pm
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we were talking about that the other day and i said to mike i reckon that since he's not too imtimidating (even though he has a temper you DON'T wanna mess with) i reckon he'll be the dad out there going "hey men, what kinda subs you have? are those alloys? lol, who'd you get to instal it?" trying to reclaim his wasted youth... he was just about to do up his car when i got preggers... had brought the nice big stereo system and everything.. just never got to install it.
he'll be the one who's their friend till they mess up. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 11:00pm
| my dad nearly cried with one of my boyfriends....when we broke up, he worked at "the Mill" and gave Dad discounts. he still talks about him now. Poor Lewis. |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 11:11pm
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oh bugger no more cheap beers for ur dad lol.wot time is it in Japan?? I notice u tend to post around 11pm onwards nz time. sorry bout the rasndom question lmao ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 10:21am
| Japan is about three hours behind NZ at the mo. Four hours come day light savings time. I usually check in the morning before work and after I get home and get jake to bed. He goes to bed around 8 so i guess 11 i right. |
Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 10:44am
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ok.i thought thered b more than 3 hrs seeing as its quite a way frm here.learn sumthin new every day huh.sayonara lol.watashiwa Rebecca desu ka.hope i got that right gees im good ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 6:58pm
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I think Joey will be a geek if he is anything like his father LMAO, after only being with hot Samoan Rugby players I ended up marrying a Polish/German Star Trek Fan Stamp Collector... Hmmmmm go figure, LOL ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 10:48pm
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i am soooooo pmsl Ana!!!!!!! Wot a total opposite in male huh!! ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 10:55pm
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yeah, all the other guys before mike for me were all the tall dark kind.
mikes kinda short and little and jockey-ish lol. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 10:56pm
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lmao i always think Mike could of made it as a jockey if he wasnt in mechanics lol ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 11:00pm
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ha, that's the scary thing. firstly he HATES horses, even though his mum has owned and ridden them since before he was born. and second, i finally persuaded him to seriously find out about it a few years back... and he was told that he was too small. lol. you have to be small but have muscle. for mike, he does not have a skeric of fat to turn into the muscle he would need to control those big strong race horses. godbye millions lol. nah. money's not everything... being a jockey's a risky business. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 11:03pm
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yeah well thats tru ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 11:08pm
am wondering if he will get middle age spread.. i actually hope so... am afraid that as we get old I'll turn into one of those jolly old ladies and he'll just get really frail and break hips and things. sounds silly, but it's a genuine worry.. people get fragile as they age...and they shrink too. he can't afford to do that. lolol  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 11:12pm
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ummmmm nooooooo i dont think u want him to shrink lol. ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 28 August 2005 at 11:26am
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lol no. funny what you think of.. I think that's what scares me most about getting old,lolol, i think i worry too much. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 28 August 2005 at 12:03pm
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LMAO!! Peter is quite thin too. He is tall but hasn't got much meat on him. I always feel like Fatty and Skinny walking next to him, especially when I was pregnant, LOL
Thank god I am almost back to how I was before I got pregnant! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 28 August 2005 at 11:06pm
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h aha, yep i know how you feel. i always feel like that with mike, we are both not really the tallest people, only 5 foot 4-ish maybe less. yet he is 31 kilos. no matter what i always feel huge next to him. wheni was larger and about 80 kilos... looking back at the pics i looked like i had pretty much eaten a whole one of him up! lololol. happy i am now not too much bigger than him. it's good though.. cos he never wins if he decides to play fight or anything...i'm nearly twice his weight ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 9:02am
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My hubby is a fitness freak and is always lean....I've always been medium built....I always feel fat infront of him.....now worse than ever.
He gains weight mind you, but looses it with in a week.....I hope my baby gets her fathers gene's. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 12:31pm
LOL. I am really self concious about my body anyway, especially now after having a baby but Peter just says I am cuddly  don't know whether I think that is good or bad... should be pleased that he still likes me anyway - he is already asking how long we still have to wait until we can "resume relations"  typical...------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 12:35pm
Well Ana you are lucky.!..my hubby says I look beautiful...aha....but he is afraid to have "relations"......what if we hurt the baby? 
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 12:37pm
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LOL, tell him not to be such a wuss There is nothing that can happen to the baby!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 12:41pm
I do tell him that...but at the back of his mind...we are going to hurt the baby....that just kills the mood! 
When I first got pregnant, it was fine but then I started having bleedings....we were told not to have "relations" till my haemorrhage went away...it took 11 weeks...and now hubby thinks I am going to bleed again if we.....
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Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 1:09pm
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My husband is the same this time round as when we had "relations" at 9 weeks with the last pregnancy I started bleeding the next morning and miscarried at the end of that week so this time he scared that doing anything might end in the same result but so far we have reached 12 wks and he is just starting to come round to thinking that maybe it might be alright thes time. I never thought he would go 12 weeks without any
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Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 1:10pm
| Yay just realised I'm now a groupie. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 1:23pm
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hehe. everyone suonds so old-fashioned wtih theeir "relations" talk.....like my nana. then again, this is a baby forum, I suppose we should have some decorum
my typing is appalling....too lazy to check it i suppose |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 29 August 2005 at 2:12pm
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lol lizzle i was just thinking the same thing.... about the relations thing... not the spelling, cos i certainly can't judge on that... sometimes i think my hands have dyslexia.... ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 30 August 2005 at 11:48am
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lol, sorry ladies, usually I am not that "nice" but I don't want to shock any sensitive people It took me ages to think of a word to use, LMAO ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 30 August 2005 at 5:04pm
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lol - it makes me feel so much better that I'm not the only one getting NONE! Daniel was worried about hurting the baby and that to start with, but apparently now I'm not much of a turn on! Hes obviously not one of these guys that think preggy women are sexy!! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 30 August 2005 at 5:09pm
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oh Aimee...I am sure I am not much of a turn on right now either...but my hubby says I look beautiful...I think he is afraid that I will beat him up if he said any thing different! he he ha ha ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 30 August 2005 at 9:56pm
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LOL with us it was the opposite - I was terrified I would hurt the baby, and the first time we had 'relations'(LMAO!) after I found out I was preg, I cried for ages afterwards worrying about the baby! That freaked Willie right out - I guess crying after 'relations' is not a good sign! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 30 August 2005 at 10:13pm
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lol.... i pride "relations" (still PMSL at that term..) on miss Ayja being born when she was. I'd felt edgy the whole day before i had her. Mike annoyed me late that night. I woke up 2 hours later to the first twinges of labour. Mike took great pride in telling everyone exactly what we had done and how he thought that was what started labour off. lolol. maybe it helped it but i don't think it would have been THAT effective! I think being edgy the whole day beforehand probably means things were gonna start anyway... and i was reallllly not wanting to have baby on mum's birthday on the 26th, so subconsciously i might have been hoping it would start things off too! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 31 August 2005 at 11:22am
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typical, guys want a pat on the back for everything LOL ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 31 August 2005 at 10:00pm
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apparently u need to have hehehe "relations" hehehe LOTS for it to work properly. ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 31 August 2005 at 11:05pm
| well, Jake was 12 days late.....and we tried many many times to "get things started" the natural way. Lewis said it was a hard job, but someone had to do it |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 01 September 2005 at 10:30am
LMAO!! I can just imagine the strenuous job it must have been for Lewis...  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 01 September 2005 at 10:44am
| yes, poor man |