Who wants to come to a virtual baby shower?

[jenluckenbach]

With all due respect to the other moms-to-be on pet talk, I would like to host a virtual baby shower for Catnapper's SURPRISE grandbaby-to-be. I just feel that since this child was unplanned the monetary strain might be too stressful for the new mom-to-be.

So, you are ALL invited but gifts are optional. (that way no one feels obligated to spend beyond their means, but can still participate in the thread). I have the personal info (address et.al.) so PM me with your requests.

Since I have never hosted a shower before, feel free suggest some ideas. My first idea is to guess the baby's sex. So I will start. (and we all know how good I am at 50/50 choices) GIRL!

Now let's have a PARTY

[gemini9961]

I second that with girl as well.

[catmandu]

The Found Cats Porchies and All Our Angels will be there.
And My Dear Mother loved Baby Showers,so we will let her do the sewing and shopping.
We will bring Kitty Bags and Toys.
We will be there with Bells On.

[Lobodeb]

Count me in!

I say it's a boy.

PS. What's the mom-to-be's name? I think I missed that somewhere.

[jazzcat]

I'm in.

I'm going to guess a little boy.

[catnapper]

Guys! (((HUGS)))

We're all saying its a boy.... and since Jen said its a girl, that means it MUST be a boy! Everyone keeps telling her its a boy based on the way she's carrying and the fact that she has no cravings and had no morning sickness. Not so sure about those old wive's tales

By the way, the mommy to be is named Ashley

I have from the very first moment thought it would be a boy. I keep second guessing myself but I'm sticking to my prediction.... though we went and looked at the baby clothes today and the girl clothes are tooooooo cute! I want ot dress up a baby girl in pink and ruffles!

[jenluckenbach]

By the way, I know there is a registry at www.babiesrus.com but I am not sure about others? Catnapper???

[Sirrahsim]

my guess is for a boy. She's carrying just like I did

[Daisy and Delilah]

I'm guessing it's a GIRL. She's carrying the baby like I carried my daughter

[Maresche]

I'm going to guess girl. I had no cravings with Mim's and carried much the same way. I did have minor morning sickness the first couple of weeks though.

Nicholas is a fantastic name. Nick for short if you're so inclined.

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.

[My Peanuts]

My mom carried me like a boy, small all over accept the belly and my brother like a girl heavy all over so you never know. Everyone else I talk to says the other way around. So I say BOY!

[catnapper]

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

[furrykidsmother]

Certainly sounds like a boy! By the way Congratulations to both of you!

[Lobodeb]

~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

Let's see, I carried high but more in the front.
I didn't crave much, I was just always hungry
no morning sickness
pillow faces North
didn't do the ring thing or the mug, or the key. My MIL did a spoon v. fork test and that said girl, but she insisted it was going to be a boy
got lots of compliments about the "glow."
my boobs didn't go on auto-inflate

I had a boy....go figure.

[flutter]

Thanks for the warm welcome. No wonder kim spends a lot of her time here.

I guess there will be more pictures posted of me by kim she takes like a picture a week of me