Kristen, I'm excited for you that you're having boys! I love, love, love being the mama to a boy... 12 years in, it's still awesome.

Since we've been talking about our thoughts about names, I've got to tell you all I'm getting a bit weirded out. I mentioned that I was considering a gender-neutral name. It's a really unusual name, one I'd never heard before I found it on a baby name site when I was searching for names with a certain meaning. But now, within a span of 48 hours, I've both started reading a book with a female character bearing that name AND I've gotten a (female) client at work with the same name!

Maybe this is telling me I should keep this option just as a girl name?

Hi holiday weekend in UK too.

My OH cousins both have twins. Set of boys and set of girls both are non identical but they look more or less identical!

Poke- u are still brill with all the running and looking after house/ kids etc. I'm sure any extra weight will come back off easily x

Nope, not sharing my name ideas! I haven't even told my son the names I'm considering.

I liked the idea of the Google image search, so I did it for the girl - gender neutral name, and only women came up in the first 10 pages. Of course, a lot of them were of the same lingerie model, but it was still quite definitive. Then I searched the boy name I like, which is definitely a male name, and most of the first two pages of images were a FEMALE manga character!

Holy moly - I've now reached the third trimester.

I wonder if this means I should give myself permission to start making my Amazon baby registry....

It's a tradition in the US to have a "baby shower" before the baby is born, for friends and family to give gifts for the new baby, and everyone expects you to have registered at one or more stores so they can figure out what to buy for you!

All I have left of the baby gear from my son is a pair of nail clippers, a single waterproof crib pad, and a few handmade blankets. We moved from Washington, DC to Florida when he was 5, after I'd been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant for a few years, and so before we moved I sold the crib and the stroller and all the other gear that still had some financial value. I gave away a huge bag of cloth diapers to an acquaintance whose sister was about to become a single mother of twins -- she was very grateful because she'd been worried about the cost of diapering two babies at once, and I was glad to be able to help!

Part of me would rather wait and have a party after the baby is born, but I am looking forward to getting gifts, because we need EVERYTHING for this baby!

Hi it's a good idea for getting organised. We tend to just get presents for the baby afterwards.

Kirsten - I was eating like a piglet but seems to have calmed down now. We see how long that lasts! Lol

Are u hungry or just eating. Think I was just eating!! A bad habit where I sit and snack !!

Found some workouts on you tube so done them for 2 days now. They quite easy but better than sitting in the sofa.

What workouts is anyone else doing?

X

I'm starting a 6 week course in Prenatal Pilates in 2 weeks so looking forward to that.

There is also another class starting that I can take toddler to too so hopefully will be at a time I can do.

Is a Belly band a support band?

Looks good Kirsten esp as bump gets bigger

Um, nope! I am eating like CRAZY! And congrats @summer8it ... make that registry!
Found out the date for my c-section this week- Sept 16! Getting closer and closer!