The September crew fly through to the second trimester, baby bumps galore! :) (Thread 7)

[Treaclepie19]

Stats sheet here

I've gained about 4 pounds and I'm at 14weeks. I'm fine with that as I've not been watching what I'm eating (for once) and I'm still exercising 3-4 times a week.

Keeping an eye on it though; I heard horror stories from one of my work colleagues who put on 65 pounds which is about 4.5 stone / 30 kilos. Can't imagine trying to get round with that much weight on, especially over summer, as it routinely gets up to 35-40C here.

Opps, wrote a big post then phone crashed!

Summary, CVS results all clear- expecting a girl! (Very exciting to know!!)

Husband fluent in French, going to raise her in both so need a name that works in both too.

Bra size has gone from 32C to 32DD, just got non wired seamless mands bra- really comfy,no monoboob either!

Have gained about 4kilos, small bump, all female family members guessed at 16 weeks.

elio great news on the CVS and congrats on having a girl!

Aw congrats on your little girl - there are some really beautiful french girls names out there I think.

Elio there's lots if nice French babes now I've picked two.
Am I the only one who has names picked already? Not telling anyone though there's a few people in my family ready to pop soon and don't want the names robbed!

Names not babes

We know our name already we did with DS too. Then we just spend the rest of the pg still casually looking but just to confirm we have made the right choice if you know what I mean. We tell everyone as well :) I don't care if other people don't like it!! I have also had my norwegian friends say it and it passes the foreign pronunciation test.

We are gonna be in for a shock if she turns out to be a boy at the 18 week scan on monday!

Congrats elio, great news!

We've picked two possible names which are both Portuguese, as that's the OH's roots. However, there are 4 ways to say both of them (the Portuguese way, the Portuguese Brazilian way, the American way, and the English way) so we're currently in a battle of wills as to which one will stand up. I suspect one will get discounted as my family (from the north of england) will really have trouble with it, no matter which pronunciation we go with. either that or we'll give in and go for Fred.

A few of my family members might not be impressed that I haven't picked a Polish name but my mum likes them so I'm not bothered what others think! One of my cousins has a habit of robbing other people's names - takes after her mum she ended up with my intended name as she was born two days before me!

Loves are you convinced your having a boy or you already have been told it's likely to be a boy? Sorry if you've posted about it before very forgetful!

Great news elio! Love French names, I myself have a French name! Which is weird as my sister and two brothers have very English names :)
My sister's partner is French and his sister's name is Elodie which I think is gorge!!!!

We've got our favourite names - two options for either gender - but we've always got our ears open for more options. We might...if sprog is a boy...surprise my dad by naming the sprog after him! Undecided yet - we'll see! X

Congrats Ambient, Shinjuku and Elio on your scans.

We have first and second names for a boy and a girl and at the moment hoping not to find out, but we'll see. We are also keeping an eye open just to confirm, and telling everyone as don't care what they think!

Elio what about Emily/Emilie? Thought of it as I knew a girl who had a French mother and English dad and it's my sister's name. Pretty I think. Traditional in some ways but I don't seem to come across that many.

sauv That's really lovely about your dad. Our boys middle name would be after mine. I wouldn't probably have done it but he died 3 years ago and its important to me our children grow up knowing about him. Having his name will help keep his memory alive and I hope make him seem more real to my children. My mum will be really touched too although she would never expect it or push.

Sauv & Jessica that's really nice! If I have a boy his middle name will be my dads name as one of my brothers is named after my dad too so I don't want it to be his first name. I know my dad would love it.

Elodie is a really nice name!

Jess sorry about your dad, what a lovely way to remember him. We'll also go for Dad's name as middle if we don't use it for first.

I'm desperate to know all the names you're all thinking of!!!! Totally agree with not caring what anyone else thinks! 1. No - one else's opinion matters :) and 2. The name ALWAYS suits the baby/child. I've had two friends recently call their two babies respectively, Cecily and Abe, when I first heard them I thought "hmm" but their names sooo suit them and they couldn't be called anything else! Xxx

We've picked our names already. Only have one of each so just hoping they 'look' like those names! And if any of my 6 pregnant friends use them first well then that's just tough, there will have to be 2 of them! lol

I think I do need to stop obsessing about weight gain and accept that everyone's different. Need to stop comparing myself to others (looking at you enviousllama! lol ) Not eating particularly healthily though I admit and my 3 times a week hardcore gym session is now down to 1 light cardio session which is as useful as a chocolate teapot but I'm just too exhausted to go when I get home from work at 7pm!

DS middle name is after both our dad's (who share a name), not 100% sure woth this one but probably Freya if a girl and maybe William (Billy) is a boy. That's likely to change tho :)

we are finding names really hard. Our 2 DSs are already named after our deceased grandfathers (middle names) and have our first choices of first names. Really cannot think of anything else, and we have never managed to come up with girls' names!

Eventful day today. Found nits in DS1's hair last night, so had to treat him at silly o'clock this morning (DH had gone to the all night chemist on the way home from work, but DS asleep when he got home). Then at lunch time I found a nit in my hair. Was half way though sorting it when school called to say DS1 had cut his face falling over and I needed to take him to a&e. So had to wake DS2 who had just gone for his nap, and take both of them on the bus with nit lotion in my hair to hospital. Luckily they glued his cheek (it wasn't too bad) and we came home again.

Names are really difficult for us. OH has a 4 syllable surname and he likes vetoing names but not suggesting them. Plus the fact I have taught girls for the past 14 years means there's not many names without connotations for me! It's one of the reasons we will find out sex at 20 weeks.

My son's middle name is my Dad's (and coincidentally the same as the lead singer of my favourite band!).

We have picked out a couple of names we like for boy and girl.

Did the ring/needle test at the weekend as was doing some crafty stuff which immediately said girl! Dh is the queen of these things and is never wrong(!) and she is insisting on doing it to me next week. I know it's only a bit of fun bit it has made us wonder whether we should find out next month so we can actually pick a name or just keep calling the baby 'the potato' until it arrives!

that should say Dh grandmother is the queen of these thing! Duh!

meinthecorner I am totally with you on how teaching limits the names you can use! I teach secondary and hubbo teaches primary school so there are HUNDREDS of names we can't use thanks to the icky kids! Of our names, we've never taught two of our names, I've only ever taught one lovely girl with other girl's name and our other boy's name is fairly common - is my Dad's name and lots of our friends are called it - but they're always lovely boys / men! Ha!

monkey - lovely names

bonzo - what a day!!!!! Hope all ok now!

We've got Rachel if it's a girl (left over from when we were deciding on names for DS) because we still love it.

We are struggling with boys. I want Will (William) named after my dad. DH is not so keen. We already used a name from my mum's family (DS has the same as her maiden name, Franklin) and from DH's father's family (DS' middle name is Ernest after FIL's dad).

Middle name, whether it's a girl or boy, is likely to be Villar - which is DH's mum's maiden name.

So I really want William or my dad is the only parent whose family aren't represented in our names. I am willing to fight this one out

Is anyone else's family annoying them in their reaction to your pregnancy? I'm trying to figure out whether I am justified or it's hormonal rage.

I have an appointment next week with a high risk consultant due to a genetic blood clotting issue to discuss how this will be monitored through pregnancy and post birth. My mum and I have been emailing about this and whilst she's trying to make me feel better by saying "don't worry about it, it's really nothing and if you'd have been in the UK they wouldn't have picked it up" she's really winding me up as the potential issues are bad pre-eclampsia, miscarriage all the way through pregnancy, foetal problems, potentially resulting in still birth, issues post birth with clotting (so the bleeding doesn't stop) and so on. I appreciate her trying to be supportive but she really doesn't get it.

My middle sister on the other hand is refusing (to me anyway) to acknowledge the fact I'm pregnant, and won't mention the word baby or pregnancy when I've spoken to her. No idea what the issue is there (she dislikes kids, doesn't want her own, has never tried for them etc) and all the usual reasons for why people can have a bad reaction to the news don't seem to apply.

Might go live on a desert island for the next 6 months, it'd be less hassle...

Elodie is my favourite girls name at the mo, DH not convinced.