Due Feb 06 - what flavour baby??

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Well ladies - I certainly want to know Amanda's result, so figured I'd kick off a new thread straight away. Hope you like the title - seemed appropriate as several of us are hoping to find out over the next few weeks.

Quick stats update as it's always useful to have at the beginning:

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH39), Lives N Herts, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, IUGR in previous pregnancies
BarefootMama, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Marite, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 30, Lives ???,
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, 2 previous m/cs
Kyliefan, Due 20th Feb, Baby # ???, Age ???, Lives ???,
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives In Dubai from Jan, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
Amanda1, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 34, Lives Leeds, Recently single. Breast cancer treatment last year. Heparin injections.
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire,
RosiePosie, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Isle of Wight,
angedemarche, Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???,

Congrats Kando!!

As for names, well we are having a girl and we are struggling to add names to a list so happy for suggestions. At the minute we have:

Daisy
Poppy
Emily
Harriett (DH hates it though)

Names I like but can't use;
Leah
Lucy (both too close to my name)
Eliza
Eleanor
Ellen
Emily (all 'E' names!)
Georgia
Georgina (one of my best friends has a boy called George)
Nancy (certainly not with Male!)

I love Olivia & Lauren. And considering Simone.
Simon and Oliver were on our list for boys!

Do you find that when you think of a name you always associate it to someone you know/ knew?

Ellenor - new one from college...sher was v. "special"

Ellen - as in De'generes...the gay comedian

Anyway...I like the names. I seam to be going for 5 letters and ending in a "y"

When I first started teaching I thought it would ruin all good names for me forever! But it seems to have worn off the more children I meet. It's more of a prob for DH - he keeps saying 'No, I knew one of those and she was horrible,...'

My friend's Mum was a Nursery teacher, and picked Jennifer because it was the only girls' name she could think of that she hadn't taught.

More names I like but I wouldn't use because of close friends ;

Jennifer
Vanessa
Kate
Daisy
Judy
Sonia

Molly is quite a good 'y' name.
Or Amy ?

Or Kelly you could name her after me

Tabs - I think Amelia Stone would be fine. It's not too 'Miles' ish.

Maybe the French Amelie, to soften it if you're really worried.

Sorry!!! I was at a friend's for the morning, and just seen midwife.

I was aching for the rest of yesterday, but not hurting... paracetamol and a hot bath helped soooo much, and today i'm just back to normal aches. I had a whole nights sleep .

Midwife appointment was all fine and normal. She says that I can take the gaviscon tablets (just take like normal pills), so I now love her.

Names.... we got nothin - we're not trying to talk about it too much because I really don't want a set name in my head. I love Isobel, but DH hates it... he suggested Phoebe the other day, but I'm going off that. I'm still feeling more boy-ish so not finding anything interesting in girls names. I love Emrys for a boy (it was the plan for DD if she was a boy), but DH has gone off it .

I had loads of girls names - I liked Ava, Molly, Milly, Bethany, Hope and a few more. Only got one for a boy so far which I'm not sharing yet because everyone manages to put me off names whatever I say! We did like Oliver but gone off that now. DH likes Jacob.

Glad you are better Flame.

Flame - get on the Amanda thread. Ooh that was bossy of me

Chloe- we had loads of girls names picked out then bub turned out to be a boy!! We still like Ben, have suggested a few others but we cant agree on anything else so I reckon it will be Ben when he is born.

He is kicking loads today, its great watching your belly move isn't it!!

Hi all

Flame glad your feeling ok now, phew.

Jasnem/Chloe, Chiropractors are also very good for dealing with back probs, just let them know your pregnant, I highly recommend going to either a chiro or osteo after you give birth, to get clicked back into place!!

FD, will mail you but YES a girl!!

Kando, congrats on your girl

Bewitched your right anged hasn't posted in ages, nor has SC?

oooh girls names that I can't use.....cause dh won't let me! and a few random ones thrown in...

How's about:

Romilly
Estelle
Elise
Imogen
Lorna
Isla
Erin
Alice
Esther
Scarlett (cause I won't let dh have this one)
India
Rhiannon
Hazel
April
Megan
Miranda

Think we're going for Poppy cause its the only one we can both agree on!

Yeah I was wondering where Space Cadet is.

Thell - the prob with Amelia is more that people will shorten it to Mil - giving us Millstone! Plus we are having Rose as a middle name, so her initials would then be ARS .

Last time SC was on she said that she was posting a bit infrequently because they have started having work done on their house, so have assumed that her absence is due to that.

Frizbe - fancy not letting DH have Scarlett - I love that too, but DH vetoed.
Also love Madison, but again DH is being a spoilsport .

TicTac - yes, def think of people who I've known with a particular name. We love Hazel, but then a Hazel in distant family put us off, and Simone is one of my 2 best friends, so wouldn't use that (apart from it sounding like a rhyme with Stone ). You could always go for Antoinette and call her Netty, or Matilda and call her Matty or Tilly.

I've never heard Amelia shortened to Mil before

I'm generally one for calling a child what you want them to be called (using your suggestion of Matilda) - if you want to shorten to Tilly, then just call em Tilly . Which I actually really like... DH will hate it.

ah we know a Tilly
also know a Daisy!
Don't do Madison, please don't its soooooo trailer park! (omg I'm a snob!)

Ah Flame - makes sense, but I can't use a shortened version of a name because DH then says that the child doesn't have a real name! He won't let me have Jamie because it should be James, and then a close friend of his gave his son Jamie as a middle name recently. DH hasn't had the nerve to tell him that his son doesn't have a real name yet .

Is Madison really trailer trash? Obviously we won't be using it as DH doesn't like, but it's not one I've ever associated with tt before. Mind you, I don't hang out with trailer trash much, so wouldn't really know what names they use - Frizbe, maybe you should try and find yourself a new more upmarket social scene .

OK, I think you're right about avoiding ARS!!

I like Fiona too, but can't have Fi Male . Boo!

I like Hazel. And Laurel. Will investigate more plant-based names. People say I look like a vegetarian, so might as well go with it! Tasteful hippy names like Sky unfortunately tend to be only one syllable, which is not so good with a one syllable surname.

More 'y' names for Tictac - Holly - Lily

By the way, Madison is in the top ten of most popular girls' names, so she'd probably be at school with about 5 of them.

I don't think it's that trashy - unless her sisters are called Tiffany and Britney!

BTW after the scan my MIL joked
'So you'll be calling her Chardonnay then,...!!'

I love the idea that its not a whole name!!

No - Madison is only number 43! See info from ONS here:

girls names top 100 last 5 years

I like Laurel too - thought of that the other day.

I used to work for a pub company called Laurel!

I'm impressed with your list!
My google skills must be out of date!!
No excuse, as DH works in IT.

Actually now I'm cross.
Looks like my child is going to have to be called 'Bogbrush' or similar in order to have an 'interesting' name

Very frustrated.