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Yup, I get very anxious about the 20 week scan or so then the 12 week. You got any feeling if its a boy or girl?
Yes this is the plan for us - film the kids cutting into the cake and then send the video of them and their reactions to my family. I'm worried for my son, I hope he doesn't get too upset!!
We keep calling the baby ‘she’ and my mum is adamant that it’s a girl haha but personally I have no idea. I am the oldest in my family and D has an older sister so I suppose that’s why we say ‘she’?
How about you?
And yeah I’m nervous too. More so on days when baby doesn’t kick as much :/
He was really upset that night, but he's coming round to the idea now and still seems as excited about the baby as he was before.How did your son take the news?
Maybe he can pick a toy or book for him to give to the new baby to help him adjust to the idea of another girl?
Has anyone got solid names picked out?
Just jumping thread, sorry.He was really upset that night, but he's coming round to the idea now and still seems as excited about the baby as he was before.
We are 99.9% sure we are going to use the name we have picked out. Actually it'd be useful to get your opinions on the middle name as that's a sticking point for me. So the middle name is my husband's grandpa's middle name, and he died last year and also it's a variation of the name my son's named the baby 'loveheart'. I like it but I don't want to saddle her with a name she's not going to like. My husband is 100% for it.
The names 'Mara Love *surname*'
Our other issue is that my friend called her daughter Mara last year. Mara was already on our names list as our favourite. I don't think it'll be an issue using it though!!
@EmilyMaria it's relatively common, more so here in Scotland I'd say. it's the name of a character in a fantasy book me and my husband loved a while ago but I'd forgotten it until a friend told me her friend had called their daughter it. It's Scottish Gaelic for 'Sea' and I'm a marine biologist who used to scuba dive for a living so I think it's a perfect name. If I'd remembered it before my daughter was born I would have used it for her.
@chattychar1990 as socks said, it rhymes with Tara and Lara. My friend calling her daughter it is the one thing that's giving me concern. I'd be telling her we want to use it - we have mentioned we love it and it's on our name list for future children before and I want to give her the chance to object strongly and hear her reasons. I do really love it and I think I'll regret not using it. But I understand why you wouldn't!
@SockVortex We aren't the closest friends and I think I'd it wasn't for facebook we wouldn't really see each other but we do have friends in common so see each other at parties and things. But there's every chance that a child could go to school and become best friends with someone of the same name so I'm not too worried about how often the girls will see each other. I definitely think I'll regret not using it so I think we will!!
Thanks for the responses, I appreciate it!!
@CharliC if she is more if a 'facebook' friend then I say go for it!
@SockVortex when I was choosing names picking a name not in the top 10 (or tipped to be rising massively) was a big deal for me. But I still wanted the baby to have a name that people recognised as a name and could spell.
I spoke to my friend last night and she was excited about the idea, so that's awesome
Hope everyone is having a good weekend! Baby spent half an hour last night kicking me in the bladder - that was a wierd sensation!! I jiggled about enough finally to get her to move so I wouldn't have to just keep peeing all night!
How's everyone doing?