Quote Originally Posted by Maresche
Catnapper-what do you need for the little one? Mimi has grown out of a fair bit of her newborn stuff and I'd be happy to send some of it your way.
We need anything and everything! We so totally were not even thinking about a baby any year soon, and all of the sudden we have 3 months to prepare for one. I hate sounding greedy, but seriously, this is throwing us through a loop and DEFINATELY plan on "paying it forward" when the time comes and we meet another family in need like we are right now. Actually, Ash is now changing her college plans to become a nurse at the local nursing school so that she can work with babies and possibly help another young mom like the people who are helping her.

Ok folks, spooky thing happened today. REALY odd, it unnerved both Ash and me. We went to the hopsital to do the glucose test for gestational diabetes (and left because you should have seen how crowded the waiting room was! ) anyway, We rode the elevator with an old man & his wife, and he was commenting on how he gained 8 lb,s 10 ounces. Oooo-k..... that's how they talk about a baby's weight but we ignored it. As we stepped off the elevator, the old man in the wheelchair took one look at her and said "thats a boy you know!" We stopped dead in our tracks and didn't know how to respond... it was something about the way he said it, it was eerie and we both just feel we KNOW its a boy based on that man! Silly, but we talked at length about it and both of us feel that was too coincidental! So now I'm looking forward to an 8lb 10 ounce grandson!

PS: We did all the old wive's tales tests last night and about 70% of them point towards a boy. The only thing she's missing is the cravings for sour things, that the father isn't gaining any weight along with her, the baby's heart rate, and the rate the hair on her legs grow!
Otherwise "tests" reveal a boy:
~she's carying low and perfectly round
~no weight gain anywhere else
~No cravings
~no morning sickness
~her pillow faces North (though we can't figure out how this determined the baby's gender)
~the ring went around in circles over her tummy
~she picked up the mug by the handle
~picked up the key by the round part
~She's looking better than ever (so the baby isn't stealing her beauty)
~Her boobs aren't growing into Pamela Anderson proportion
What else? Did we miss any old wive's tale test? We refused to do the Draino test. LOL