Sticks and Snails
Suffice it to say that (almost) everything about yesterday sucked.
However.
The one teeny tiny silver lining was that because we had the CVS done – and Sprog is, btw, free from chromosomal defects like Downs or Trisomy 18, so that’s a good thing too – we also got to learn what flavor we’re getting about 6 weeks earlier than normal.
Drumroll please! (For those of you who didn’t recognize the nursery rhyme.)
We’re having a son. Sprog’s a boy.
Holy crap. There’s a boy in there.
So, let the naming madness begin! Thus far, Boris and Robin have both been axed as potential tags for our eventual offspring. As have Napoleon, Sherman, and Hezekiah. Along with approximately 560 other names of varying degrees of offensiveness to either myself or the Boy.
In fact, the way we’re burning through the baby name book, Sprog might very well be “baby boy sprog” on his birth certificate, if we don’t learn to compromise a little better…
And my project for the day is to start looking for clothing that doesn’t try to make a 3-month-old baby look like a construction worker. I mean, really – is khaki absolutely necessary to preserve an infant’s feelings of masculinity? I’m totally dressing the kid in bright colors until he’s old enough to complain. Just sayin’.
exciting and wonderful news!!!
good luck with the name game!!
Congratulations! A boy….that’s awesome & glad everything is ok with sprog!
Congrats! So excited for you. Good luck with the name. Names are tough, we carry them with us for decades so lots *should* go in to picking them out!
Wowee!! Big congratulations!!
Congrats on good CVS results! What a relief!!
Welcome to the boys club
Baby Boy Sprog sounds like a fine name!
Congrats on the CVS results. Great news and greater news – A BOY!!
Happy baby boy sprog!
and so very happy for your news— this is a Very Good Thing–
Remember downhill ski phenom Peekaboo Street? I think I remember she named herself– was Baby Girl Street until she was 8 or something when she chose her name.
Naming is really amazing as a process, isn’t it? Folks suggest you yell the name at the top of your lungs to make sure it can come out easily in an emergency as in
Ezekiel Romulus Sprogblogger, you come down off there this instant!
something like that.
With big love and congratulations,
Kate
Congrats on the test results and A BOY!!! I hear you about the clothes. A friend gave me a bunch of hand me downs from her son. Sorry, but I am not dressing my little girl in khaki!
Congratulations!!!
Sure hoping this means any difficult decisions etc are all over with and you can settle in to glory in your pregnancy with baby boy sprog! What’s wrong with Boris?
At least you’ve now got a good 26 weeks to argue about names for. I’m sure you’ll come up with something wonder.
Here’s hoping sprog gives you a very trouble-free remainder of your pregnancy. And then is more punctual at arriving than my little one seems to be. Seems like the waiting and agonizing never ends, no maer which stage of TTCing or pregnancy you’re at!
Oh, I’m so glad everything’s looking good with Sprog! Congratulations!!!
Congrats on your CVS results and on boyness. I have to say, however, it has been hard to find non-pastel boy clothes, at least for the first few months, although I have found some. Good luck and happy shopping, Susan!
Congratulations!! My son is the light of my life, mommy’s little buddy. I thought I wouldn’t know what to do with a boy — but it has come so naturally. We adore each other.
I recommend “The Baby Name Wizard” book. Hubby and I had to come up with two more boy names for these twins, I thought it would be impossible since it was hard enough to come up with one for our son. But from that book, we managed to eek out two more!
For what it’s worth there is a helpful (to me anyway) Irish tradition of naming the first boy after the father’s father and the first girl after the mother’s mother. If you basically like the name in question, this eliminates a lot of guess work and debate. We used that mostly, so we ended up with another William, a name I never thought I’d choose, but we call him by Liam (which is the Irish from of William), another name I never thought I’d choose but it suits him. Naming is so weird to get ones brain around anyway. I have friends who named their son Evan but on bringing him home found they naturally called him Ian instead (another great name, I think), except they never bothered to official change the name until at a border crossing one day the official looked into the back of the car and said, playfully, “okay, which one of you is Evan?” Chaos followed. There also is a New England (I think) tradition of naming children for aunts or uncles who did not have children, which I have always liked and which yields these great middle names, because they are really last names. Good luck.
I also bucked the tradition of camo and khaki for boys – you can find adorable colorful stuff at Polarn O. Pyret, Hanna Andersson, and Le Top (not a store, just a brand). Have fun shopping!
How exciting to know – and fighting over a name already! But what a fabulous thing to be fighting over. I’m sure your DH is kinda excited to have a boy after 3 girls too – something really different.
Our solution to the name game was, I went through the name book and wrote down for each letter the names I thought would be acceptable. This left me with about 100 names. then I read them to DH and he said ok, or no. We were left with 3 we both agreed COULD work, and only one I was liking a lot (and he tolerated – it was the name of a bully from his elementary school). We worked that out cuz the bully used a shortened pet name version and we only call him by his full name. Seems to work.
I should say it was hard because DH and I both have J names, and we didn’t want to start naming all the kids (ALL, hahahaha!) with J names too – so J was out. And we LOVED tons of names that started with J! Also our last name is a C name, and we didn’t want alliteration going on there. Silly but ya know. It’s kind of a big deal what a person will go through life being called!
Good luck -
Oh boy! Let the fun begin — welcome to team blue! And I am so with you on the bright colors thing — my little guy is in a one-piece with bright stripes today, looking so cheerful.
Delurking to say congrats!! How exciting to know what you’re getting.
About the names — I don’t have kids myself but some of the best advice I have heard is that once you get it narrowed down to a few possible first/middle name combos what you should do is stand in your living room and absolutely bellow the full name at the top of your lungs in a few different tones — as if you were really mad with him, as if you were calling him for dinner, etc. Unfortunately for me, this eliminates a lot of names *I* personally like (which are mostly flow-y girl names like “Morwenna” that don’t lend themselves to yelling) but I still think it’s good advice since it gets you to use the name in a good variety of the practical ways you’ll be using it in the future.
I also like the tradition of naming from both cultures — if they’re important to either one of you. If I ever decide to have a child, he/she will be having at least one definitively Welsh/Irish name, because that’s important to me. The other name can be from the boy’s culture.
Just my two cents if it helps — good luck finding the perfect name though!!
Congratulations on a healthy boy sprog!
Susan! How exciting for you to be able to relish in the fact that you are having a boy. We did PGD with my successful own-egg IVF and we put back two boy embryos. All my life I thought I wanted a girl, it was just one of those things that stuck with me. But, the universe knew better and given what a boy my little boy is, I’m not sure what I would have done with a little girl.
Congrats to you both and I hope you are exhaling tonight.
Victoria
Boy, oh boy! Congratulations! At least you have a few extra weeks to apply yourself to the task of finding appropriate bright and cheerful boy clothes.
A Boy! Bright colours abound if you take the time to look. We got awesome bright stuff at Target when visiting the states. I’m so excited for you! And naming is hard, any way you look at it. I’m one for names that have some meaning to one of you or you both as a couple – so when people have ‘opinions’ you can shut them down with your reasoning. That’s just me though. I hope you find the perfect name for your perfect little bundle. What joy!
I am just so absolutely completely over-the-top happy that you have a healthy little Sprog. Also I’m sure a boy will be very exciting for you, your husband and Nellie to raise and love. Naming will be very fun since you are both so creative, I’m sure the eventual list of both keepers and rejects will be awesome.
Oh Congratulations! I think boy babies are the cutest (but I’m biased!). Much harder to name though. Really happy for you!
Yeah!! That is amazing you get to know so early! And I agree about the clothes, everything is related to construction or sports and I don’t understand why the colors have to be so blah. What happened to primary colors? Congrats and how fun to finally know!
As for the name thing…yeah, been there done that. When PB and I agree on a name, it will be a good day to buy a lottery ticket. And boys names we find especially difficult.