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Jan. 30th, 2003 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI think I'm starting to feel the baby move. I'm not sure because I've never done this before. Those might just be weird digestive effects. Putting my hand on my belly, I think all I feel is my pulse, but from the inside... I think there's something.
We're still debating names. We've eliminated quite a few. I vetoed some because I have cousins with the same (or very similar names). Christina, for example, is a fairly nice name, but on my mother's side, I have a cousin Christine and a cousin Kristen. Anna and Hanah (family spelling) are both out because they're too much like my name. Then there's name that sound kind of wrong to our modern ears, Philippina being the best example. Now we're starting to consider potential teasing; I'm not certain that there's any name that doesn't have some angle from which other kids can make it nasty, but I'd like to at least consider the possibilities.
Right now, the names that we haven't absolutely ruled out include: Jane (a great-grandmother on my father's side and some unspecified relative on my mother's (she didn't tell me where the names she pulled off the family tree came from)), Cordelia (great-grandmother on my mother's side); Ella (nickname for Cordelia); Helen (one of Scott's grandmothers); Elizabeth (a frequent name in my mother's family); Louisa (middle name of one of my mother's grandmothers); Mary (from my mother's family); Ellen (from my mother's family); and Sarah (from my mother's family).
We may simply end up waiting until the baby's born to make the final decision (assuming Scott's family will let us get away with that...). I know a number of people, including my brother, who ended up with very different names than their parents had originally intended just because they "looked like" a particular name. (My parents had adamantly rejected the name they finally picked for my brother because they despised one of its common nicknames. I remember them coming back from the hospital a little sheepish because they simply couldn't give him any other name.)
We're still debating names. We've eliminated quite a few. I vetoed some because I have cousins with the same (or very similar names). Christina, for example, is a fairly nice name, but on my mother's side, I have a cousin Christine and a cousin Kristen. Anna and Hanah (family spelling) are both out because they're too much like my name. Then there's name that sound kind of wrong to our modern ears, Philippina being the best example. Now we're starting to consider potential teasing; I'm not certain that there's any name that doesn't have some angle from which other kids can make it nasty, but I'd like to at least consider the possibilities.
Right now, the names that we haven't absolutely ruled out include: Jane (a great-grandmother on my father's side and some unspecified relative on my mother's (she didn't tell me where the names she pulled off the family tree came from)), Cordelia (great-grandmother on my mother's side); Ella (nickname for Cordelia); Helen (one of Scott's grandmothers); Elizabeth (a frequent name in my mother's family); Louisa (middle name of one of my mother's grandmothers); Mary (from my mother's family); Ellen (from my mother's family); and Sarah (from my mother's family).
We may simply end up waiting until the baby's born to make the final decision (assuming Scott's family will let us get away with that...). I know a number of people, including my brother, who ended up with very different names than their parents had originally intended just because they "looked like" a particular name. (My parents had adamantly rejected the name they finally picked for my brother because they despised one of its common nicknames. I remember them coming back from the hospital a little sheepish because they simply couldn't give him any other name.)
