September 2024 - Thread 7! 🐣🧡💛❤️

[BeautyAndTheBump1]

As requested a new thread for us all! 🥰 can't believe its thread 7 already!

Then hopefully by thread 14 we'll all have our babies in our arms talking all things post partum!

@Decaffe No I love this response, makes me feel less like I’m being unreasonable to be annoyed! Some people just seem to see our pregnancy as their property and it’s really frustrating.

@malimoon Haha I think asking them to suggest things would drive me mad 😂. Tbh I wasn’t going to say that we had chosen the name, but my dh told everyone we’d chosen it and so I just rolled with that!

I don’t mind so much when the kids at school try to guess because they’re young and don’t get that it’s a bit of an imposition. My Y10 class have all agreed with the name they think it will be - I don’t have the heart to tell them the name they’re betting on is my cat’s name 😂😂

@Lillers I mean at least your year 10s identified a name that you do like, if you used it for your cat! 😅

And I guess I don't mind people giving suggestions because I don't really plan on using them so I don't feel like I have to pay too much attention, I'm just like "oh yeah nice" and mostly it descends into silly ideas anyway. But it sounds like some of your friends are a bit persistent...

On the name talk I'm wondering now how many of us have a name that is definitely set already? We're still debating over a top 3 list but it's looking like until she's here we won't actually decide. I don't think people are guessing our choice (though plenty asking) as they know with me it could be fairly alternative!

Nothing else to report my end really - lots of movement all over tummy now (26+2) Im just really enjoying it all and luckily no pains or heartburn (yet!) if I didn't have this daily expanding tummy and lots of kicks I wouldn't know I was pregnant but I'm sure the next 13 weeks won't be all plain sailing!

People keep asking us if we have any names yet, we do but we keep telling people we haven't because with my son we told people we were calling him Jasper and everybody had an opinion and nobody liked it so this time we aren't telling people until he's here that way if they don't like it, its tuff because thats the name we have given him

I’ve actually done the opposite and told people the name we’re set on. More to be like “this is the name we’ve chosen.. we’re set..I don’t need your suggestions.. bye” lol.

How rude is it for someone to openly say they don’t like the name you’ve chosen for your own child? Like you’re going to bow down and change it because someone thinks there’s something better out there 🙈

I’ve told some people the front runner of our names , but also said it’s not set and we’ll decide for certain once she’s here. I have had some absolutely awful suggestions for names that are just not us at all. I just smile and move along.

I am literally counting down the days until our next scan with baby girl. I have no idea how I was so calm with our daughter.

We have absolutely no idea yet mostly because I keep saying I like one then the next day I decide I don’t 😂 won’t be telling anyone till he’s here anyway as then they just look like dickheads insulting a baby if they have something not very nice to say.

You've all made me realise I really need to start looking at names 🙈 I struggle to find any I like so I've just put it to the back of my mind 😂 I'm not organised at all this pregnancy. I'm still on my arse with the HG, I WFH then lay on the sofa, then go to bed, that's what my days consist of I'm still unable to really do anything

What will be baby's nursery is currently a storage room - which needs emptying, but I don't have the energy to sort it - it needs decorating, flooring (currently bare floorboards), skirting boards, etc. I normally do all that stuff too - my husband isnt very DIY its me who is...I really want it done before baby is here just so I can get a wardrobe in and her clothes brought, washed and hung!

My partner has a name he really really loves so I think he's keeping quiet and not discussing it much because he's hoping I just go with it. I like the name but I am open to finding another I might like even more. So we will figure it out. But I think if you asked him he'd say that was definitely the name already

I have a short list of 3-4 names we like. We have a front runner though but I dont think we will decide until he's here. Similar to last time. People have asked me and this time I have shown them my short list depending who they are. I dont care if anyone disliked them!

I have a name and got some reactions from random people I don’t even know …. But then I heard their kids name
and obviously we’re just VERY different people haha!

so from now on… not sharing 😂🙈
I picked up a newborn seat for a Tripp trapp as it was a bargain on Facebook - the lady was lush it’s in amazing condition
just need to find the actual high chair now 😂🤞🏻
I haven’t got many bargains so I am hopeful this can be my one!

I’m having another NHS scan today at almost 24 weeks. Bit disappointed that DH isn’t interested in coming (and thinks I shouldn’t go either). We’re also under private care now and are seeing a private consultant every 4 weeks who does a basic scan (just looking at baby and checking heartbeat) and have done the Anomaly scan at 20 weeks, so he doesn’t see the point in still also using the NHS, but I’m kind of happy that I get to see the baby more often (and get reassurance) - am I being silly here?

We have a name that we haven't really discussed but it's the only one mentioned that we both like so keep calling him that now. I did say we should probably put more thought into it 😂 we aren't telling anyone tho.

@Cinai I would take all the reassurance you can get we had our 20 week scan 3 weeks ago and won't see baby till 26 weeks at our 4d scan and it feels an eternity especially with inconsistent movements still

We have been calling the baby Kiwi rather than an actual name, I guess because he was the size of a kiwi at the point we started wanting a nickname for him?! But yeah I feel like I don't want to use his proper person name until he's here, I don't know why tho

We have a clear front runner, which is very different from our first, who didn’t have a confirmed name for a couple of days. I’m a bit worried we’re not putting more thought into it because we have one though, so I’ll probably re-visit options at some point.

With DD1, a midwife asked her name and we said we were down to two and told her them, and she said “ohhh she definitely looks like a ” (one of the names) and I instantly hated it 😂 hearing someone else use it for her made me realise it absolutely wasn’t her name, and the other choice won. So I wasn’t worried about 100% choosing one before this baby was here but it seems to have happened!

@malimoon We knew what we’d call ours from very early on, but I insisted we wouldn’t use the name until the baby’s actually here (bit of a superstition thing I guess). But as soon as we knew she was a girl my husband said, “It’s our [name]!” And since then we’ve called her it consistently. We’ve even started using a nickname version of it that we hadn’t planned to use, but just seems right for her now we know she’s “real” 😂

We have been calling him Vasilica, for no reason whatsoever, as a nickname. That is not going to be the actual name of the baby 🤣 this is just our colloquial.
I have my mind set on a first name but we’ve not decided on the second name yet.

@HRP1990 yeah I think it's rude too, I would never say that to someone, it's their child and they can name them whatever they like. If we all liked similar names it would be very boring. I like hearing what people are calling their babies but would never comment something unkind if it wasn't a name I was keen on. I don't get why people have to be so unkind

On the topic of names, would anyone mind sharing their list of boy names?!

We are superrrr struggling and yet to find one we like at all! 🩵

We had Orson picked out for our boy, but my mum completely ruined it with disgusted faces and making comments and constantly suggesting other names (I'm talking FB Messenger pages long lists)

We hated all of her suggestions, and frankly we really didn't connect with most boy names, they made us screw up our faces -

After a while of being frustrated that our OG name was ruined we thought fuck it. Orson means bear cub which is why we liked it so much - Why not just call him Bear?
We can't imagine or see wee one as anything other than that now, and mum seems to be less displeased with it.
(although I am still getting the odd name list of horrendous names. Winston? REALLY?)

@SpicyMoth Orson is a lovely name! Please don’t believe people who say it’s not. It has a nice sound to it and I can’t think of any ways to mutilate it into an insult. It’s unique.

@ForeverHopeful67 I had Roman, Kurt, Ernest on my list that I have now crossed off because I’ve chosen a first name already.

I also like Edwin, Ralph, Arthur, Arthas, Gustav, Philip.

Same!! We had even chosen our boy and girl names before conceiving 🤣🤣🤣 but because they are family names we are carrying down, so as soon as we knew it was a girl it's our Esme and we call bump it day in day out

@ForeverHopeful67 Our boy name would have been Sebastian - I just love it, but we’re having a girl! I also really liked Jacob and Reuben. I loved Joseph too but my friend called her baby that.

@TripleESept24 Esme is so lovely! We also knew the names since before we ever conceived - we knew our girl would be Aurora, and then the day we found out she was a girl was the day the northern lights were visible, which just showed us it was the perfect name for her. We kept calling it Rora’s electric sky 🥰

@TripleESept24 Esme 💕💕💕 that's really adorable, I know of only one and she's the cutest little thing with such a sweet name to match. Lovely choice 🩷

If we'd had a boy he would have had DH name with a second name of Finley.

Has any received any freebies yet? I went to town earlier today and called in Boots. I got the Emma's diary packs (1&2) and a free mam bottle and soother and breast pads from boots offers.