19-8-2009 - Names

My mood while writing this blog: Excited

Hi girls,

Hubby and I have decided to keep our baby names a secret from all our family and friends, because we want to ask permission to use them before we make any announcements, but we only want to ask after we know which one we're going to use. I figured I can tell you all though, as long as none of you promise to tell, lol.

So you all know that in June I lost one of my closest and dearest friends when she was 37 weeks pregnant and recently engaged to another of our closest and dearest friends. I have found this pregnancy sooo much harder as a result, because her partner has been on my mind every time I reach a milestone, every time I think about our future, and lets face it, he's just here a lot so it's hard not to think about him.

Well anyway, we've decided that should we have a boy or a girl, we'd like to name our child in honour of Rachael or her unborn baby boy, Reily, but we didn't want to go so far as to use their names as first names - we thought it might be too soon, and that perhaps using the name as a first name might water down the memory or the loss, if you know what I mean?

Well anyway, for a girl, we've decided on Amelie Rachael, and for a boy, it's going to be Caleb Reily. We're hoping that once the baby is born, Rachael's partner will be the first to the hospital, so that we can ask him if he minds. We've already asked him to be one of the Godfathers, we had him in tears, but he really appreciated being so involved. We love him to death, he was already part of the family, but maybe more so now, because it's almost as if our kids are his kids. Not that we could replace the family he loved and lost, but maybe it makes it that little bit easier to know that he's needed and wanted.

Apart from that, things are pretty peachy. I had an appt with my brilliant and lovely doctor yesterday, who said that apart from being a little different, I'm going perfectly fine. lol. Okay, so what he means is that, after I did the glucose test for gestational diabetes, he got a call from the lab saying that perhaps there's something wrong, because apparently my sugar levels are quite low - even after that disgusting drink. He said that I'm fine, that's just me. He said that if it was effecting me, I'd be feeling faint, or collapsing etc, but I'm not, so he's not worried.

Bubs is currently stretched from one side of me to the other, and we guess that he/she is finally moving down, but until that happens, I'm feeling very stretched, and I'm regularly getting kicked in the side of my rib cage - not pretty. It's also getting harder with DS, especially when we're in town and he wants me to pick him up. He is getting too heavy as it is, it's even harder when I have to carry his little brother/sister as well!

I wish all you ladies who're expecting in the next few weeks, lots upon lots of luck, those who're pregnant, enjoy the rest of your journey, for some of us, it's not as far off as we'd like to think! And to all those TTC, remember to have fun!

xxoo