Is my baby a boy or a girl?!

[JoyRenee]

I'm getting a sonogram soon! Within the next two weeks. No date set but I am seeing the new midwives I just switched to in a week and we'll schedule it then. I'm 18 weeks (will be 19 weeks when I see the midwife). If you follow my blog then you may have read my recent post stating I won't say when the sonogram date is as family and friends may check in and I don't want them to get anxious as we want to tell everyone IRL the gender in a special way. So I probably won't tell anyone when the sono is but I'll update on the gender after we tell family and friends IRL!

This is how we want to tell them: I'm going to make vanilla cupcakes and fill them with either blue or pink frosting (relevant to whichever gender our baby ends up being) and then pipe vanilla frosting over the top to hide any remnants of the tinted frosting. My husband has a FLIP video camera so we'll catch them on vid as they take a bite of the cupcakes to find out the gender!

Okay, okay so here's the fun part. I'm going to post some specifics about my pregnancy (I've been quiet on here about it, sorry!) and then you vote what you think baby's gender will be. If you have any other questions before you vote just leave them here on the thread and I'll answer to help you in your voting.

My Pregnancy:

-Daniel and I have three daughters
-My belly looks more like a basketball than a watermelon
-I did have a few breakouts, not very good complexion many days (did not have this with my girls; had a prettier complexion with them for the most part)
-Not craving chocolate like I did with my girls
-Loving ice cream (usually don't really care for it)
-I could eat chicken all the livelong day and I'm not usually carnivorous
-More nauseous this time than other pregnancies (started earlier and is lasting longer)
-Breasts more tender this time than other pregnancies
-Daniel has two brothers and one sister; I have three brothers and one sister (boys dominant on both sides)
-For Chinese Calendar; I was 25 when baby was conceived on or about December 31st (says boy)
-Mommy's intuition says BOY; Daddy is also thinking boy; our two oldest girls are saying boy as well


So are Daniel and I having a.........................

[JoyRenee]

Oh someone else asked me if belly was high or low - I honestly can never tell. My belly is just out there. I'm short so belly is already big. My best guess is that I'm carrying high because it is right up under my breasts.

[Cookee83]

I say Boy, because mama always knows, but I wouldn't go on the shape of your belly for the reason that I am definitely carrying a girl and I look like I have swallowed a basketball.

[JoyRenee]

Tabitha- I'm always wrong when I guess other peoples' baby genders, too! LOL! So sometimes I vote the opposite of what I think for them.

I may try to post the family's reactions with the cupcakes to my personal blog (sometimes they load and somethings they don't on my computer).

[JoyRenee]

Someone asked me somewhere, probably on my blog, if I knew what my other girls were before they were born. I do NOT remember what I thought before I had Elaina; I don't remember thinking one thing or another. With Abigail I thought boy but it was more of a guess than instinct; I went back-and-forth with her. With Zoë I KNEW she was a girl from the start. So did DH. So I guess the more kids I have the better my instincts get?! LOL!

[alaysha]

I say boy because that is what I want you to have!

[blueeyedtabbycat]

okay I went against everyone eles and said girl, but only cause im always wrong, lol! So it will probably be a boy:) Good luck Joy, I cant wait to hear how the cupcakes go!!!

[LosingMyMindInGA]

I agree, the cupcake idea is REALLY cute. I may have to "borrow" that idea if I ever get pregnant again :)

[smjmekg]

BTW, cute idea for telling them what the gender is!

[smjmekg]

I say boy. Did you think girl with your girls? I was wrong both times with my kids, first instinct was the opposite so I think when I do TTC number three that I'm gonna say it's the opposite of my first instincts. I personally don't trust the Intelligender or any of the old wives tales, simply because they've been proven wrong at one time or other. But like Chantal I've thought boy with you from the beginning, and to date it's weird but I can usually guess what someone's having. I'm not saying I'm psychic or anything because I don't believe in them, but I just have a feeling or I'll open a gender post and think boy or girl before it opens and it is what I was thinking. But I say boy. I haven't been wrong yet even with friends.

[JoyRenee]

I think I should do a giveaway for the gender guesses. Like if the baby is a girl choose a winner (at random) for those who voted girl and likewise if baby is a boy to choose a winner from those voting for a boy. Hmmmmmmm... I might do that on my giveaway blog though and not here but all welcome to come over.

Right now I'm giving away an Intelligender! It says it ended on the 16th but I extended it so more people would enter:
http://girlygirlgiveaways.blogspot.com/2011/04/mama-palooza-intelligender-giveaway.html

Not sure when I'll pick the winner for that. Now to decide what to giveaway if I do the gender giveaway thing!

[frank_noahsmommy]

I am saying boy! I have 2 and with both my skin was BEAUTIFUL and I normally have occasional breakouts! I Loved chicken with my last DS, I think I ate it everyday!!! hated sweets in general with both.

[JoyRenee]

I know what you mean! If we had a boy we would most likely try for another boy so he'd have a brother. My husband grew up with two brothers and theirs just no relationship on earth like brotherhood.

[Tryingforbaby2]

I wish I could give you something here but I had almost all same symptoms with my son and now having a girl. Complextion was clear, basketball with both, sick until 5 1/2 months with both, more tired at end with girl, no cravings with either, can't eat chicken at all with this girl, chinese calendar said boy for me but it is a girl, breasts were more tender with girl for me, and I was told by the dr that after having 3 girls the chances of a boy are very slim. I hope it is a boy if that is what you are hoping for though!!!

[lil_mama_of_3]

I'm going to say boy, I felt all those ways when I was pregnant for my son who is almost two and i'm again that way with this pregnancy which is another boy due July...I broke out really bad with both of my boys but has the nicest skin when I was pregnant with my daughter...and I was more round with my boys then I was my daughter...But it's hard to say as you know haha...But i'm going to go with boy :)

[leralee2011]

I say boy just from experience because boys tend to make you crave more greasier and saltier foods which comes out in your skin (i.e chips, fries, deep fried chicken, and more). I have had one boy who is almost 2 and I have another one on the way and is due in July. My cravings have been out of wack too but just going by experience both boys tended to crave greasy foods more with the odd kick of sugar sometimes. My pregnancies have been watermelon shaped but that don't really mean anything to me because I am more of a heavier set person so it could be just my fat too. Plus if boys were dominant in both sides when your parents were having children usually it will alternate the next generation down.

[Ashelen]

You're right Cass...my group was all boys, then you guys were all girls (our boys need wives someday after all, LOL) and so now tis the season for boys....

With Kahlan I had a basketball, with Grey it was a watermelon...both times my skin was clear and both times I puked like it was going out of style...I swore that Grey was goin to be a girl because the pregnancies started out so similarly.

Every time I make a guess about my own babies I'm wrong lol.

For you though...I say, boy!

[NicoleW09]

Idk. With Lexi my belly was basketball shaped, I broke out bad in the third and first trimesters, I wanted beef andi never eat beef. I had hyperemesis until after I delivered her as well. I was also convinced I was having a boy bc of the dreams I was having. lol.


At the risk of being wrong, I'm going with Team Pink!

[Spiket77]

BOY! :)  

[LosingMyMindInGA]

I said boy based on a few things

1) some of the symptoms you listed
2) it was my first thought
3) it appears to be "boy" season - if you have ever noticed it tends to alternate here on medhelp.  One group will be having mostly girls, then once they all give birth the next group tends to be having all boys.  My group was the last group and we were all girls, so now it's time for some Boys :)
4) I have a friend who has several girls and finally is getting a boy-I had a feeling she was gonna have a boy too

We'll see who's right :)

[mamaof4410]

I say boy. A mother always knows...

[gem111]

I think boy, the main reason is my complextion has been terrible this time with a boy x

[wannabeamommy0124]

I am gonna say girl... just because everything is leaning torwards boy and is so different than the other pregnancies, everyone is going to say boy... so... im gonna go the other way... but i do wish you get that boy... even though i personally would rather have 4 girls than one boy alone lol... but thats just me.. i have an urge to dress little girls up with everything i wish i could wear myself lol!!!

[chantal21]

I said boy. Just a gut feeling ever since I heard you were preggo!! I hope you get that boy! :)

[Rellyrell]

Im leaning towards a boy because you said your belly is shaped more like a ball than a watermelon, I know when I was preggo with my boys (4) I had beautiful skin so I for one wouldn't use that as a factor....

Is your belly sitting high or low???