It's a Good Tired...

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise and I had trouble getting to sleep last night, partly due to it being too hot in the bedroom, partly due to nerves. The alarm clock was set for 4:15 AM, because we needed to get to Wisconsin in time for a 7:30 ultrasound at week 21.

Other than the acute lack of sleep, the news was all good. All systems were go, all parts were present and accounted for and looking good. And the baby decided to keep his or her sex as a secret, with hands and feet correctly placed to make sure that no hints were available.

There will be pictures later.

Meanwhile, we came back to Chicago and I headed into work, where I fixed one bug of my own creation and five others that had been created by others in a furious orgy of exhausted productivity. Obviously, I should debug more often when comatose...

Comments

[jhayman.livejournal.com]

Good news, the best ever. 19 weeks to go. Hugs and tons of love!

[(Anonymous)]

Vunderbar!

- Mama Tara

[drawshad.livejournal.com]

So glad everything is looking healthy and good :) There's usually another ultrasound right before delivery, maybe the little squirt will open his or her legs for you then :)

(I was against finding out the gender, but Peter prevailed. I think the best part was having a pronoun to use. I hated calling the baby "it," but sometimes using the baby this and the baby that was too many words)

[rms-butterfly.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo! That's great, that all the baby parts are there and stuff. *hugs* to all of you.

[cary-lee.livejournal.com]

Very happy to hear about good news. Caetlin was all about the secrecy. Having done both I think either way is wonderful.

Can't wait to see pictures.

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

See, that means it's a girl - girls like to preserve their modesty :-) Alright, so it's not a scientific proof, but it's a nice theory, eh? Amy managed to preserve the secret until about a week before we had her. If they tell you in later scans that they won't be able to tell, don't believe them - they *might not* be able to tell but there's no guarantee that they won't (I had one ultrasound woman tell me it was impossible to tell at these late scans and then when I asked her again 2 weeks later it was not a problem, so that boiled down to her not wanting to look the previous time because she wanted to go have her belated lunch).

Cool news!!! How goes the great name debate? Have you begun yet?

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

The debate has been going on for a long time.
Girl name is easy. We have two picked out and it would just be a matter of which one seems to suit when we see her.

Boy name... not so much.
I want something interesting, something with meaning.
Roper wants "Bill or George or Fred or anything but Sue."*

GHR
*It's from a Country Song, A Boy Names Sue made famous by Johny Cash.

[cary-lee.livejournal.com]

My favorite Johny Cash song...Greg and I debated and debated on boys names. We went to the celtic name site and printed out the names and took turns deleting one of the names until we found one we liked...of course since we didn't have a boy we never got to use Gavin Frederick.

[sposter.livejournal.com]

Hey, what's wrong with the name "Sue"? I would offer up the unused male child names I once picked, however I'm sure you've lots of your own ideas. At the moment, my current favourite male name is Tom - but you knew that!
:-) See you at Confluence!

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

:-)

Good luck with it. We did a lot of to-ing and fro-ing. Amy's name changed the morning we went into hospital, because the previous choices didn't flow well together. Alex's settled earlier, but then we knew for a lot longer that he was a boy.

I lose track - is your tadpole big enough to be felt moving yet? I think the answer is no but like I said, I lose track.

Today when I went in to pick Amy up from nursery she was standing (hanging on to a bar) waiting for me while one of the newer babies into the room lay there on the rug watching the world go 'round. I'd forgotten how long it took before they could do more than that. Before they could sit, or contemplate crawling. The memory goes so easily when you're wrangling two, obviously!!