Due April 2009 - Tralalaboomdiay, our bumps grow every day!!

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Place your bets on how long this thread will last, my guess is two weeks!!

Nutty - I think Aurora is a fab name, it's on our shortlist (altho the baby is probably a boy lol). Hope the back appointment goes well.

Electra - I think you said on the last thread that you had a gender scan at babybond. I've got one booked on Sunday. I was just wondering if you could tell me exactly what they did, e.g. did you get pictures, did they check over all of the baby? I'd like to know what they actually do so that I'm not disappointed ... but it seemed that checking the baby's sex would only take a few minutes if the baby is in the right position.

Hi - I like Jessica but I think if you're not 100% convinced then keep nagging your DH - or make a deal with him that he gets to name the next baby? Worked for me

my niece is called jessica and she calls herself jessicki! i've never been too keen on it as a name prior to her existance, and now i like it alot. Association is alot to do with whether you like a name i think.

Me and bloke are having a stalemate over surname, as we're not married. He's come over all paternal and traditional and wants his surname only, whilst I want a double barrelled number. Tis very annoying and I'm not sure how it's resolvable. We do agree on Isobel though for a girl and some sort of scottish boys name . I also really like Delphi for a girl.

i don't want to marry him just now, maybe in the future if it feels right for us both. I was engaged to my ex and it made me rethink my views on marriage, so i definately don;t want to just get married because i'm pregnant. If i marry him it'll be because my whole heart body and soul wants to , Just now that wouldn't be true, although I do love him, I'm not sure I believe in forever.

I can insist, I do hold all the cards. But it just makes me sad to disagree. I'd not insist on only having my surname, as that wouldn't be fair to him or to our child's indentity. But he's totally dead set. I think it's a family thing.

claireykitten - i like Jessica - agreee with frekkles that it often depends on if you know a nice one already and i shared a flat at uni with one, so have nice associations. Also just had a friend have a baby girl in December and she called her Jessica, and i think its a lovely name for a baby too - but gut instinct probably has a big say so if you really dont like it, maybe a compromise new name is needed.

nutty - good that mw went well and fingers crossed for later.

like isobel lots frekkles - we are also debating scottish boys names as we have a Struan already, and want another Scottishy one to go with that if its a boy.

probably heading towards Eilidh if its a girl, although have always imagined having a Rachel. But sil is due any day and its one of her top names so will depend what they decide.

i think a compromise has to be in order too frekkles - you are prepared to so surely he should consider it too - only other suggestion would be to have your surname more as a middle name - if it's suitable for that - but then i suppose most people dont use their middle names as much.

Good morning everyone- Wow you leave a lady I lot to catch up on.

Weight- I was a firm 18 when I started the pregnancy, but was so sick in early months that I lost 10 kilos and so blissfully still fit into 18 (mat and non-mat). I however have recently gained some horrible 'saddle bags' as they call them back home (flabby fat deposits just below the hips) and the non-mat are now getting a bit too snug to be comfortable around the thigh and hip. I keep whining about it to hubby but he reassures me that I'm still very desirable and shapely and I have nothing to worry about. I'm really hoping the breastfeeding will help me lose weight...I'd love being the 'lighter me' or at least the same as I was before.

Names- Jessica is a popular name in the States and I have a cousin whose nick-name funny enough is Cat. Some times she's called Jess, but most of the time it's Cat. If that's all you ever call her yourself then no one will call her anything else.
Aurora is very pretty also, I suggested it to DH but knew someone he didn't like with that name so it was out.

Excercise- Over did it myself at the pool last night and pretty much came home a blubbering wobbling mess...I really must learn. I'm a horrible swimmer and have never been able to do more than 100m really (not all in one go, but over say 15 min) but I still did it last night though it was over 30min and that was after I had my 30 leisurely swim. I am a stupid girl sometimes. I woke up in the middle of the night starving and so had to go down the 2 flights of stairs to the kitchen and back up again. By the time I got back into the bedroom I was balling like someone had killed my favorite pet and DH had to usher me back into bed and cuddle me until I calmed down again. silly woman
DH keeps saying that he can't wait until we can go mountain biking again and has all these plans on how we'll manage to go up into the mountains with the baby in a trailer. He says May is such a lovely month for it usually and I should be feeling back to myself again

ooops wrote tons...well it's payback for talking so much while I was away and sleeping...

I met a little four month old struan when i was away in ullapool for hogmanay! His dad was Somhairle, which i like (pronounced sorley) His sister was a Brea (apparently gaelic for beautiful) . isobel is a family name for both of us so that'd be nice.

Although I still can't help thinking that when i meet the little person something different will appeal. I'm never named anything before without seeing it, so I'm not sure why this'll be different. We'll probably be deliberating right up to 21 days

his family have already said ho nice it'll be to have "another little muir". They are just assuming that that will be the case. I can't see how it's right that it's assumed i'd have no problem surrendering my indentity or my child's indentity if he has one. weird.

i wouldn't want it just as a middle name. I want it as it's legal surname. I don't want my child to not have my name.

Frekkles I think that you should hold your ground and get at least a double barreled name as a compromise.
But I do know from family experience that double barreled surnames often don't fit onto forms and so often the properly last surname it stil what one gets known by

Well when DD was born she totally didn't look like the name we had chosen, but we called her it anyway and now it's perfect. I think children do grow into their names - or rather you get used to them.

Anyway. Any suggestions for a middle name to go with Hazel?

Oh I love the name Hazel

Hazel Ember
Or
Hazel Michael

Love Marie but can't use it because it was my niece's middle name. Any more ideas? I keep coming back to the same names over and over again so love your new ideas!

nuttytaff - its pronounced aylee - although dont like the way it looks when you write it like that. hmm. not convinced either way yet.

frekkles - to be honest, my real opinion on names is that i would want the baby to have my surname if i wasnt married - i just didnt want to say that as you seemed keen on a double barrelled name and i didnt want to be too opinionated.

Are you and dp going to be living together when the baby arrives? I think that its a difficult position cause things may move on in the future to marriage etc, or they may not - imho, the mother is the one who is most likely to always be around, and as such, I;d go for the mother's surname - but I know thats not everyone's opinion.

maybe more ayley than aylee actually.

uh-oh I just ate a tub of lowfat garlic herb cream cheese with crackers without realising it!
So much for size 18