What's the affect of being on holiday when ttc a boy using moon signs?

Grrr, the monkeys ate my post. I'll try and keep it short this time. Skyla, how did your 8 week scan go? 1 bub? Happy in there? Don't worry about your tummy as it is very obvious to us early and others take a fair while to clue on to it.

Mallety, so sorry AF showed up. Just when it was all lining up so pefectly for you. That is what happened to me in January...and I thought I had done everything just right but did not get pg. Sometimes our bodies just don't co-operate, but hang in there, I am sure your perseverance will pay off. I don't know anything about false unicorn, but hopefully it will work once you have taken it for a bit longer.

2 days til my scan. I would love to find out as well but if it is a girl I would wish I had waited until the birth. Still planning to wait at this stage. Take care both of you. Peony x

Hi peony, just a quick message to say I hope your scan goes well today, will be looking forward to hearing about it when you get time :-) xx

Thanks mallety. It's a Girl!!

Eeek, I can't quite believe it but will have to pinch myself at some stage to make sure it is all real. The craziest thing is that I have to keep it a complete secret from everyone (except on here) until the birth. I told the OB doing the scan that we didn't want to find out the gender but asked him to write it down in case we changed our mind. Anyway, once DH had gone back to work I held the stapled piece of paper up to the light and could see the words Baby a GIRL written on it. He hadn't even put it in an envelope so it was not too hard. I didn't even cry, though I wasn't far off, but I did get a very big smile on my face!

So no major baby girl shopping trips for me...just the contentment of knowing our little girl is in my tummy.

Oh my god, congratulations peony!!!! I am so so so pleased for you, I really am over the moon. You must be walking on air?! Will you tell your DH later or are you going to try and keep it secret that you peeked?  Wow, I can't believe it, it must make everything so worth it, it was obviously meant to be :-)  I hope skyla can be celebrating a pink bean soon too, that would be great!  Congrats again!!!! :-D xx

Thanks mallety! No way. I will completely keep it to myself. I am good at keeping secrets. I don't want to ruin the surprise he is looking forward to.

Your turn now!!

OMG Peony! That is the most amazing news ever! And how cool that only you know. Youre lucky you have us to tell...! I reckon I would have been the same as you, how is it possible to resist that piece of paper?! How are you going to keep this secret for 20 more weeks though when you must be so happy and excited?? Congratulations a million times over to you. It is just so super exciting. All the effort you put in paid off, and clearly you did O under a girl moon and the OPKs were wrong. My scan went really well thanks. Only one baby in there, thank God, and all is looking good. Mallety- sorry to hear things arent exactly going to plan. I truly hope the False Unicorn Root starts to work and that your LP starts to lengthen. If you have ovulated in a boy moon 3 times in a row, Id look at that as a good sign- it means you actually are capable of ovulating under the sign you want! Sending lots of love and luck your way, xx

Thanks Skyla! So good to hear your baby is looking great. It is lovely having those scans done. Did your scan dating correlate with when you O?

I always had in the back of my mind that I just couldn't be 100% sure when I O. My 6 week and 12 weeks scans suggested that I had O on CD15, which was the girl moon, but because I had been tracking everything I thought it had happened on CD18 in the boy moon. Either way, I still knew that I felt different this pregnancy...had m/s for the first time from 6 weeks and my boobs are bigger this time as well. DH picked up that I thought it could be a girl but of course I wasn't getting my hopes up as I knew that either way they were meant to be.

Yes and now I have to keep it a total secret. I keep looking at cute girl clothes and everything else baby-girlish but I can't go crazy as it will be too obvious. I have ordered a couple of outfits online that I plan to hide away until after the birth. My mum is knitting a white blanket for the baby...so tempted to say 'make it a lilac one'!! I am very good at keeping secrets so I know I can do it, but it is not exactly easy. I showed the 3D picture of their face that I got at the scan to a friend's 8 year old yesterday, and she said 'You are having a girl baby I think'. And my boys have said all along that they think it is a girl in my tummy...they say that they know somehow. And you are right, thank goodness I can tell people on here! Otherwise I might just burst.

Hi Peony, So, have you let slip its a girl yet...? :-) i am still so excited for you and that the lunar gender stuff worked-it also gives me hope. Have had my 12 wk scan and dates are all looking good. Since we only BD once, and that was about 7 hrs into girl moon, I am pretty sure the timing is perfect. I think my attempt will prove once and for all if the whole lunar gender thing works...! If we do have a boy, I will believe the theory is certainly not 100%. I had MS for the first time too, plus I am seriously so psycho and hormonal- I just have such a temper on me. I have never felt like this before. Here's hoping theres a reason for that... Anyway, we have decided not to find out the gender, and so we won't know what we are having til January. Its a long wait, but I really do want that big surprise at the end. Are you glad you know? xx

Hey Skyla, it definitely sounds like a different pregnancy for you! I think I was most hormonal with my first pregnancy...I feel pretty chilled out this time around, though have the occasional emotional day where I feel a bit overwhelmed and teary. Yesterday was one of those, but I had just heard that the minister who married my DH and I died unexpectedly and I wish I could be at the funeral. We don't go to church but he was the nicest man and got to know us and taught us things about marriage that we still remember and value. But DH went away today for 5 days and I can't just fly to Perth with the boys. And DS1 is sick. And I have had 5 weeks of visitors which was exhausting. And my mum had surgery last week and my father-in-law is having surgery today. Etc, etc!! It just feels like everything at once which I would likely find hard even if I wasn't pg!

I still haven't told anyone at all. Funnily heaps of people are predicting I am having a girl this time (the kids, people at work, friends, etc). Good on you for waiting until the birth. I think that is wonderful! I still feel like mine will be a surprise in a way as I have only relied on a few words viewed through a folded piece of paper. I didn't see or get any pictures of that area at the u/s, and will not ask for it to be re-confirmed, so I still won't quite believe it until the birth. So I am glad I found out but I like that no-one else knows. It doesn't feel quite real somehow.

Have you picked out a name? We find names so hard. DH keeps coming up with boys names as he thinks it is a boy. I keep telling him my favourite girls name, but he doesn't seem sold on it. I try and come up with others but keep going back to my favourite. I think we will have to write a list of our top 5 and rate them or something. Is your tummy popping out early this time? I have put on 7kg already and I'm only 23 weeks. Everyone keeps saying how small I look but it feels really big to me. With DS1 you could only start to tell I was pg at 23 weeks. Take care of yourself. So good that the 12 week scan went well.

Hey Skyla, don't know if you still log on here anymore, but am dying to know if you got your little girl... Hope he/she arrived safely either way :-) xx