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09-12-2010, 12:08 PM
I prefer knowing things and being prepared.
I can see why you'd want to be surprised by the gender of a baby, but at the same time it's soooo much easier to plan/get things ready for a baby when you know the gender. My couple is having a hard time right now trying to figure out if they should be registering for little boy clothes, or little girl clothes, if they should be picking up pants or dresses and having a hard time since they don't want animal prints, and if it's a girl they don't want to be putting her in blue and having everyone think she's a boy.
But I'm leaving them in the dark. .;D
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09-12-2010, 01:17 PM
I wanted Mikes to be a surprise... My mom made me ruin it :/ But with Sean I agreed with my mom that it was just easier to plan for which gender I was going to have... Though I bought a lot more neutral stuff cause most of me was still hoping the doctors were wrong :(
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09-12-2010, 01:55 PM
I wanted to know with both before this one, and with this one. xD I've picked up a small bag of stuff for the parents when they come down here for the birth (or I guess when I go to Connecticut for the birth? Whichever happens)
Sakura was forced to be a surprise becasue she wouldn't cooperate. The twins I had so many ultrasounds there was no way I wasn't going to know.
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09-12-2010, 02:09 PM
awww what did you get em?
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09-12-2010, 04:16 PM
One day time outfit with 3 pieces, a onesie, a warmish shirt to go over it and a pair of pants since weather will be getting colder soon. A Sleeper thingy. Both are monkey themed. Some "peepee teepees" because they made me crack up too much... also monkey themed, and a babys first year calendar that has stickers for all of the milestones that baby will go through in the first year that way if they're too super busy, they'll be able to just shove stickers down and work with the baby books later with out having to guess when things happen.
Technically I'm not supposed to get them anything. >.> According to my counselor it makes them feel bad becasue I'm already giving them a baby. Buuuuuut...I'm going to tell them it's from my mom and get out of that. haha.
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09-12-2010, 04:20 PM
Hehe Peepee teepees ^^ I've seen those!
Ohhh where did you find the baby's first year calender!!! I want one!
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09-12-2010, 04:50 PM
Clair thinks it's very simple to prepare for a baby, even if you don't know the gender. :/
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09-12-2010, 04:51 PM
I found it at walmart surprisingly enough. xD In the beginning of the year/after christmas when they have all the new calendars out it was poked in there with some other ones. So I picked up two since I knew two friends that would be giving birth, forgot to give one to one of the girls, so I just shoved it in the bag with their stuff. >.>
peepee teepees were too funny. We found them in So cal in a monkey print and I was like OMG I must by this!
Obviously Clair hasn't had a baby yet. xD
While it's not technically hard to prepare for a baby, it's easier to prepare for a baby when the gender is known.
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09-12-2010, 04:59 PM
I was going to say that too Mellie...
It also isn't hard if money isn't an issue... But seeing as money is always an issue unless your are a Millionaire... Then yeah it is difficult lol... All of Michael's stuff almost was second hand... And my mom still spent thousands :( With Sean I bought more then half of his stuff second hand and the rest I bought new... It was nearly 3k by the end of it all... I plan on buying everything new for the next baby... I know that it will be pricey but I want what I want... And should I have a 4th child I can re-use all the furniture because it will be something I definitely like <3
REALLY... Coool I look for one at the end of 2011 hehe... I saw the Teepees in a magazine!
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09-12-2010, 05:07 PM
I got mostly new stuff for Sakura. Her bassinet was the only thing that was second hand, but I didn't really buy anything >.> My friends took care of baby clothes, towels and blankets. My aunt bought a wonderful rocking chair for me, my mom bought the swing I wanted, and my god mother got just about everything else. My other aunt bought me the high chair I wanted and Scotts mom when she came over to visit Kura after Scott and I moved out bought us a nursery set in cherrywood that we had liked. So since I got to choose everything, everything matched. o.o
With the twins we re-used all the stuff we had for Kura, bought a second swing and got a second pack n play off of craigslist since I didn't think Winnie the Pooh was manly enough for my little man. xD
My God Mother actually got me the sticker babies first year calendar when I was pregnant with Sakura. Ever since then I've kept an eye out for them because they're so friggan useful! Hang it up and sticker it when baby does something...because I couldn't keep up with just Kuras baby book, much less the baby books for the twins! D:
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09-12-2010, 05:20 PM
See I everything I do is backwards... If everything I got from Mikes was new I'd be more inclined to have saved it and used it again!
I really want everything to be new for the next baby though ^^;
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09-12-2010, 05:27 PM
lol, it's okay Jaz. We all do things our own way. xD
If I had to get everything for Sakura myself it would have all been second hand. No way I could have afforded all of the new stuff she got! Babies are so friggan expensive! D:
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09-12-2010, 06:15 PM
I really don't see how knowing the baby's gender makes it easier? >.> I guess the way I worded that earlier was off. It's not that it's easy to prepare for the baby, but I don't see how it makes it any easier knowing the baby's gender. I mean, you can simply buy "unisex" colored clothes/items/furniture etc. I don't care what other people say/do, I'm the one carrying the baby- they can wait and find out the gender after the baby is born if they're dead set on getting a gender-specific item for the baby. xD
My parents didn't have any difficulties with waiting to learn my gender. Most of my clothes/items were themed with the typical yellows, greens (unisex colors) and such.
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09-12-2010, 06:22 PM
If you want gender neutral stuff to begin with that's fine, For Sakura I wanted pink car seats, dresses etc. I wanted to celebrate her gender because I was excited. But since we didn't know her gender I had to get a neutral dark blue car seat, and normal blue/yellow/green clothes. After she was born, I couldn't very well go and return the car seat etc for a pink one, and that made me sad. A lot of people thought she was a boy just becasue she was in a blue car seat and normal ducky sleeper. It made me sad, becasue I was proud and happy that she was a healthy baby girl.
But when you're registering for baby stuff, you have to be careful to just choose neutrals. Your nursery gets decorated in neutrals...and it's just not as fun. People ask what you're having all the time, and you only know it's a baby. It kinda sucks. It did for me anyway. I wanted to revel in the idea of being pregnant with my daughter, to be able to call her my little Sakura before she was born, get her used to the sound of my voice saying her name etc. None of that could I do because I didn't know she was a girl.
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09-12-2010, 07:24 PM
I sorta plan on having a themed nursery... like by the ocean, or in the jungle, or on the savannah... some cute, nice theme that could work for either gender. :D
Clothes, most likely rubber duckies galore... Clair is a sucker for the rubber duckies. xD I'll most likely call my baby a nickname while I'm pregnant, and tell people, if they ask something silly. Like "Oh, is it a boy or a girl!?" and saying "A bit of heaven, doesn't matter if it's a boy or girl". People won't expect that sort of a response. :lol: Clair likes throwing surprises as much as she likes receiving them.
And Clair also likes the idea of not telling her family (mother, sister, etc, and in-laws) what names she has picked out. :lol: So, they will only know of the baby as Baby.//
My mother bought a dress for me, even though she didn't know if I were a girl or not, before I was born. After I was born, she had professional photos taken of me wearing the dress. And she couldn't bear to part with it, even after I out grew it. So, she kept it, and when Anna was born, she had professional photos done of Anna in the dress. And I think if I have a girl, I'll do the same, as mom has the dress still. :) It would be an EPIC tradition to carry on!
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09-12-2010, 07:56 PM
My daughters have gotten to wear some of my baby clothes too. (: I do think it's sweet. I've kept some of their stuff that I really adored as well, and they'll get that when they have babies down the road.
My nursery was essentially rubber ducky themed. But I missed out on buying up quite a few completely adorable rubber ducky dresses when I was pregnant with Sakura becasue I didn't know she was a girl, and I wasn't going to have any more babies so if she was a boy it would have been a complete waste of money.
Having a planned nursery is actually kinda hard >.> It's difficult to find stuff in the theme you want. And it totally sucks. Sometimes even finding the colors you want is hard, at least at a decent price. You could buy stuff off ebay for 3x what it's worth. >.<
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09-12-2010, 08:08 PM
Yeah, that's true. :yes: :)
Clair is in the process of getting a very beautiful doll *ducks from rocks flying at her*. :oops: And the kind of doll she's looking at it's sorta like a baby... you don't know what color eyes the doll will have. Sometimes, the wig you get for the doll is also unknown. The doll I'm getting doesn't actually come with hair, so I know exactly which wigs I'll be getting. xD But it's a pretty intense process.
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09-12-2010, 08:09 PM
Is it one of those crazy beautiful dolls from Japan that have interchangable parts? I can't for the life of me remember what they're called...but there was at one point a hang out for them in Nations and a thread about them in Art...Discussion. ?
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09-12-2010, 08:47 PM
Yeah. Asian Ball Jointed Dolls. xD I totally fell in love with them.
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09-12-2010, 09:02 PM
That's what they're called! xD CK has one or two I believe. >.> I remember her posting pictures in chat one night, it was pretty...but I don't think it had eyes, so it was also kinda creepy. xD
Those things are crazy expensive. I was looking at them before going Good lord that's a lot to spend on a doll! Some were over $1000!
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09-12-2010, 09:23 PM
I have a dress for what I hope is a future girl... It is black and white er... cross hatch? and it has a bumble bee on it... The onsie for underneath it is yellow it is adorable <3
I hate to say it but greens and yellows are boring... I knew what Sean was when I was pregnant but I SWORE that he was going to be a girl... He had EVERYTHING furniture winni the pooh which meant EVERYTHING was green... >.> it was soooo boring... The only thing that wasn't green was his pack and play which was tannish brown...
If I have a girl she is going to be in dresses from the second she is born >.>; plain and simple... I couldn't do that if I didn't know her gender to begin with...
What Mellie is saying is true though... Unless it is a popular theme at the time then chances are slim that you can find everything you want to match :/
Never even heard of a ball joint doll lol...
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09-12-2010, 09:35 PM
Oh, yeah! Clair is getting one, and her mother is splitting the cost with her as her Christmas gift this year. :)
Clair is buying hers from a Korean company. :)
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09-12-2010, 09:43 PM
As soon as I got Melody she was in a pink "Got Milk" onesie, and I put Aaron in it's blue counterpart. It was totally adorable. xD
When I found out she was a girl, I got the pink car seat I wanted for Sakura, and a cute green car seat for aaron. No more dark neutral gender blue! It was going to be obvious boy and obvious girl stuff from then on! And it still is. xD I'm obsessed.
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09-12-2010, 10:14 PM
Haha, I don't like the idea of teaching "this is girl stuff" and "this is boy stuff". So, I'm going to try my VERY hardest to stay away from a lot gender specific items.
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09-12-2010, 10:29 PM
I don't teach my kids that... But it doesn't mean I can't swamp my daughter in pink... They don't make much pink for boys...
(I am almost gaurunteed my next child girl or boy will get and wear the boys old clothes)
I bought Sean a doll and both boys play with it... Michael had a baby he use to play with all the time too... They also play with cars and trains etc... Mellie has he kids in dance class... And her hubby has a shirt that is pink...
Mellie Sean had a white "Milkaholic" shirt I LOVED it!!! He also had a "Chicks Dig Me" that was blue and had little chickies on it... It got bleached and turned pink (how the HECK?) he still wore it lol...
But I hated how no matter what a baby is wearing no one can guess the gender of the baby... Sean was wearing a blue onsie with a beanie that said "It's a BOY" and a blue striped blanket and still people called him a girl it was like what the hell people!
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