January 2009 babies

We had our ultrasound today!

We've spent the last two weeks steadfastly convinced it would be a girl... but this morning, my fella woke up with a feeling that we were wrong, and sure enough... BOY! He was a squirmy little devil, the tech said he was a pain in the butt (she seemed amused, though), but he certainly wasn't shy about giving us the money shot.

I think we're going to go with the name James. James Adrian Clawson. It's crazy, it seems so much more real now that we know, now that it's a He and not an It.

Yesterday I hired our midwife, too! Also made it seem more real. Time is just flying.

I had an 18 week ultrasound today and baby is...

( Click Click Click! )

Just got back from a productive BabiesRUs shopping trip. All their summer clothes are on clearance, and their clearance is 30% off. So if you're planning on shopping ahead a bit, you could find some really good deals on summer baby clothes. I found some cute rompers for less than $3.00 a piece, as well as some summer clothes for my toddler at the same prices.

Just thought I'd pass it along!

Sorry but I couldn't find a shopping tag. :)

I'm one of the few who still has no idea what she's having. We've decided on a boy's name that we both agree on (Nathan Michael), but we were having a hell of a time agreeing on a girl's name. Nothing was jumping out at us.

Last night we were watching Futurama and I joked that we should name her Leela if it's a girl, and my husband was like "DONE OK AWESOME."

As soon as he said that I'm like "oh no, she'd probably hate us and our family will mock us wholeheartedly."

I am not an overall fan of creaytivve spellings or really untraditional or trendy names, and if anything, Leela seems at first glance like an untraditional/creaytive spelling of Leila or Lila. I think that is a super pretty name in and of itself, but it doesn't grab me and mean something to me like Leela does. I'm quite surprised at how weirdly attached to it I am.

However, it doesn't really easily pass the stripper vs investment banker test. I don't want my kid to suffer because we named her after a cartoon.

What do you think? I'm absolutely OK with honest comments, since I'm obviously on the fence about naming my kid after a one-eyed character Matt Groening created. From a quick googling it seems like there's actually a folk singer with Leela as a first name, as well as a few people with Myspaces. I have to admit, it's growing on me.

Hi everyone!  I've been looking everywhere for a crib bedding set and I can't seem to find anything that I really like that doesn't cost more than the crib itself.  But I've seen this set a few times, I think it's the cutest thing ever, and my sister said she would give me bedding as my baby gift.  My biggest concern is that it's too "girly" for a little boy's room.  I love the colors, but I just don't know... so my husband told me to get on here and ask all your opinions.  Thanks in advance.  :)

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2973393

(sorry if the link doesn't work, I'm new to all this stuff)

It's that time again! What's everyone craving RIGHT NOW?

- salt and vinegar kettle chips
- giant deli pickles (per usual)
- frozen lemonade from Starbucks
- White Castle cheeseburgers

nothing but pure nutritional goodness, of course.

I found this site that would be fun to play with and post pictures. Unfortunately it won't work for me for some reason, but I'll try again some other time.

Since just about everyone knows what they're having, and if not, or if it is a surprise, at least has name ideas - I thought it would be fun to share them ;)

We used to have a long long list of names for our little boy, so I tried to start using them on him - to see which one felt the most natural. Slowly, the names on the list started dropping, and we've started calling him Oakley. It feels the most "right."

Oakley Nash or Oakley Bennett. That one we still have to decide. Feel free to give me your thoughts! ;)


Also - share your name ideas! :)

( Baby sex )

I just went back to August 18 trying to get all the entries tagged appropriately.  If I left you a comment regarding this, please update your entry ASAP.

I also went through and added those who I noticed were not on the tag list.  If your username is still not there, PLEASE COMMENT HERE, and I will add it tomorrow.

Also, thanks to all you mamas for being so helpful keeping everything so organized.  We have a such a great community here!  <3

I completely brain failed to post here last week after my ultrasound. It was in a matter of words the ultrasound from hell. The receptionist was rude the sonographer was rude the radiologist was rude. First off I've been there before and my SO and Daughter came in with me, this time they don't let my Mom and daughter in, okay whatever, so after about an hour she gets the radiologist who tells me I am "too big" for an accurate ultrasound... I call bull shit, tell her I was 30lbs heavier with my first had 3 ultrasounds and have had one already a month ago where my weight has never been brought up as an issue, she back peddles, the baby just wouldn't move, they needed more measurements and I didn't get the maternal serum...wtf, well it would make HER feel better if I did. Funny I thought these things were to make me feel better? So I say no, well it's the last day and she really thinks I should. Back and forth for a while. Finally I say 'Fine I'll take the fucking test if I don't have to fucking hear about it again.' They book another scan for the 4th to get more measurements. Ack most frustrating day ever. Even more so because they won't tell me what I'm having and I have to tell the whole story 100 times to everyone waiting to hear.

So yesterday morning I get up early, it's Aislyn's 1st birthday so I have cleaning to do and I want to have the stuff for supper ready to just turn on when it's time. I want to spend the day playing with my baby girl. I'm just finishing up around 9:30, I can hear her waking up I've got toast on for her, Jason is getting up and getting her I'm putting on coffee and the phone rings, it's my OB. I start to worry, so he asks when I got the maternal serum done (last he'd seen me I wasn't doing it), I explain the situation from last week to him, he had no idea they'd set up another ultrasound for me, he said he had all the measurements and everything looked good BUT my maternal serum came back with a 1 in 200 chance of Downs. Explains it's really nothing to worry about I just get a level 2 scan done on a different floor. 'Fetal assessment on the 7th floor?" I ask hope in my voice (I know they'll tell me what I'm having). He tells me yes that it's the next day.

Cut to today, my mother and I go to the ultrasound (hubby had to work since it was short notice). While I did have to wait a bit to get in it's a hospital and emergencies happen, not going to bitch. The nicest staff I've ever met explain the way downs risk works (which I'd known but it was great for my mom who is pretty confused at all the different tests). I get in and they start looking at my file. Come to find out even if I hadn't done the maternal serum I would of been sent up here anyway, they'd flagged my results last time... okay. So she does the measurements, gets most of what she needed, but baby won't move for her to get the last shot of the heart. She gets the doctor who finishes the scan. As he's getting ready to get the last couple measurements he looks at me chart and asks if I knew why the first floor had flagged my ultrasound before I'd had my scan. Nope. Funny he says, because nothing they had would indicate everything and they were just missing a few measurements, he said if it were him he wouldn't of even bothered mentioning the blood test to me again. So he finished (after about 15-20mins on trying to get one measurement lol stubborn baby).

Anyway in the end I'm glad I did it, nothing is wrong with my baby and had I not I wouldn't have gone to fetal assessment where we found out we're having another girl! I knew before he told me, she gave a good shot of the goods and I thought to myself, yup another girl, then he said "do you want to know" and confirmed. So yay Lyra Ruth welcome to the family!

I just believe I just hands-down won all when it comes to "Tackiest Way Someone Has Inquired About You Being Pregnant." 


I was standing outside the bathroom, waiting for whoever was using it to exit, when a co-worker of mine walks by, stops, turns back around, looks at me with a puzzled look, and ACTUALLY asks me:

"You're not just gaining weight, right?"






Excuse me!? qins;oin!!oneoneoneone!!e;wiudbuiqbw!!?!
No, kind sir, I'm not just gaining weight. I'm about 5 months pregnant. 

His response? Oh, it's even more solid gold. 
"Oh! Whew! Okay, that's awesome, because I was like DAAAAAAAANG! She's got BIG! Thank goodness it's for that!"








Are pregnant people allowed to get away with murder? 
What about aggravated assault? 

Well I thought it was time for an update. I am now 19wks pregnant and have a bump starting to form. When I was 17wks we went for a special scan as DH is disabled due to various health conditions when he was born/littler, one of which resulted in him having a through the knee left amputation of his left leg when he was six.

The consultant we saw wanted a full medical history and to scan to check the babies bones were all forming correctly. During the scan bubs stretched his legs right out so she was able to take the measurements she wanted. But when it came to checking all the other bones etc bubs decided he was just gonna keep moving around making life difficult. Although he did decide to flash his bits clearly and when the consultant said to us do you want to know the sex we just looked at each other as if to say its too late as he clearly flashed us with his bits close up on the screen taking that decision out of our hands lol.

We were relieved to hear that all the bones and measurements seemed fine but they would like to see me at 28wks to make sure all is still going the way it should. DH was made up we were having a boy as most dads would be especially after all we went through to get to this point. So we can now officially call bubs Clayton Craig Harrison.

I have been feeling ok apart from borking quite a lot but hadn't been sick until today. I have been constantly tired and can't wait for the blooming part of pregnancy that everyone says you get. When we listen to Clayton's heartbeat on the dopler we bought you can hear him going manic inside me especially when you talk to my stomache, his heartbeat just goes even faster than it was which is funny. We have our 20wk scan booked for 3rd september so hopefully another pic then. I have posted the link to the 17wk scan below and my progress ticker as well.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52373319@N00/2803699738/

Hope all is going well with you all xxxx

Definitely knocked a stack of books over with my belly at work today. And I know it wasn't a fluke because the same thing happened yesterday.

Because who wants to go against the trend?

It's a boy for us!

It took forever to see, as he had his little legs crossed the whole time and they had to try and bounce them apart. Finally we got a little glimpse, but it didn't look like a penis to me. They radiologist came in and was able to get a better look and by that view it was for sure a boy.

Not sure what to do with a boy baby!

its a...


BOY!!




super excited! his name will be Cody James Fox :-)

GIRL!

She was not cooperating with the ultrasound tech at all...I think she's stubborn like her dad (strangely he's accusing me of being the stubborn one.  Me? Nah!)  So we have to go back for another ultrasound in a few weeks because we didn't get all the measurements we need, but everything they saw indicates a healthy baby! YAY!  All the pictures we got didn't really look good though, apart from an incredibly clear shot of her butt showing an absolute lack of penis!

Anyway, now we can do some serious shopping!

We all seem to perceive that there are more boys than girls due in this community - but let's do a count for fun :D

What are you having - boy, girl, or surprise?

We had our twenty week ultrasound yesterday, and I guess I'm just following along with the trend of the community, because we've got a healthy baby BOY!
Another one! So it will be three boys and just the one girl for our family after January. All the kids are thrilled, and I can't wait to meet him. He was the biggest showoff ever in the ultrasound though- he just kept rolling over to give the sonographer the perfect shot of whatever she was trying to measure, then he was waving and dancing and reassuring us (many times!) that he was indeed a boy, and not at all shy about showing it off!
Now we just have to think of a name... And despite what my daughter wants to name him, I don't think it will be Dobby, lol!

I need your information please!!

Just another  reminder for those that have not seen the post where I need your info... perhaps it got hidden far back on your friends page. I am setting up a informational section on all the great mommas in this community with some information. If you have not already can you please please please check out this post and get me your information asap. I would love to get it all done and looking extra pretty on the user info here soon.

Here is the direct link to the post ----- ----- -----
please post the info there in a reply.
http://community.livejournal.com/january2009baby/89195.html

I only have about half of the community so far and Id like to get everyones info. 
THANK YOU