our apologies for the busted name suggester widget. while we are looking for a new alternative, here is where we were at with name suggestions...feel free to continue suggesting!
Suebee: For a boy: Mathias. For a girl: Ramona Suebee: For a boy: Wayne. For a girl: Odessa jaimezee: olive, ruby, hazle, caliope, ezra, elliot jaimezee: esme, adiam, maja (pronounced maya) jaimezee: asa jaimezee: tuesdae....esther....finnley jaimezee: atticus Quinn: Quinn! Tiffany: SABINE! But you know I love Seven too. And Sagan. And Amelie. Dani: Gabriella... Gaby for short Kevin: Damien!!! erinzee: seven Martin: Sagan Eric: Amelie
Corey just wrote to ask if we were planning on having a live ultrasound webcam feature added to our website. Well it looks like such a thing may be possible. Everything USB is offering a new USB Ultrasound Probe that can take you inside the womb from the comfort of your own home, regardless of what state you live in. However, it's their description that really makes the sale:
If you ever wanted to be just like Tom Cruise and have your own ultrasound machine just perfect for looking at your unborn, possibly alien, baby you are in luck. Soon you may not have to drop $40,000 to indulge your insanity love for your child, you can just buy your own USB powered ultrasound probe.
Unfortunately, the device is still awaiting FDA approval and -- at the low, low price of $3,700 -- it's a little out of our price range at the moment (but it would sure make a great stocking stuffer). Personally, I'd be a little surprised if the FDA went for it. Wouldn't there be just a little concern about sending high frequency sound waves careening through the fragile brain of your developing infant every time aunt Martha in Wichita wanted to see them kick? Not a great idea.
Instead, pretend that this is our live streaming ultrasound. I keep telling Erin that drinking coffee right now is a bad idea, but what are you going to do?
I am sitting here staring at this photograph and I can hardly believe that what is pictured in it is actually inside of me. While it has made its presence known in some (sometimes inconvenient) ways, for the most part it just does not seem like it is there. I cannot feel it moving. I am not quite showing. My fatigue symptoms disappeared a week ago (I only experienced about 5 weeks of that, thank goodness – it was rough).
As far as an update, the nugget moves, grows, and has a heartbeat that apparently is quite normal. Based on the ultrasound, as of Friday 12/12 the ultrasound tech determined our little nugget was 2 inches long and that we were 12 weeks instead of the 11 weeks 5 days previously estimated (creepy...12 on 12/12...) I think this makes the due date June 26 instead of June 28.
Our next appointment with our nurse midwife is January 5th. We probably won’t have another ultrasound until February (at 20 weeks).
I remember this Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine cartoon on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show from when I was a kid. I hope the cartoons our child grows up with will teach history as accurately.
With every inch of public space featuring an advertisement or an inducement to buy, with an economy based around debt and overconsumption, and with a culture that refuses to challenge the lies they've been raised with at the same time that we witness our society teetering towards collapse; raising a conscious child becomes not just a biological process but an act of political necessity.
I want my child to know the names of more tree species than corporate logos. I want them to have seen an animal that wasn't on television, imprisoned in a zoo or domesticated for our amusement. I want them to care about acts of political struggle or creative expression rather than celebrity gossip. I want them to experience the rich diversity of the world and to view the monoculture of parking lots and strip malls with the same disgust as a forest clear cut. I want them to celebrate community and to reject the atomization and alienation of modern existence. I want them to live free and to struggle for those who can't.
I'm having a baby and it means I believe the future is worth fighting for.
In light of the on-again off-again functionality of our Name Suggestion gadget, we are tracking name suggestions in this blog post.
Please add your suggestions in the comments of that post, and we will then update them here on the sidebar.
Suebee: For a boy: Mathias. For a girl: Ramona Suebee: For a boy: Wayne. For a girl: Odessa jaimezee: olive, ruby, hazle, caliope, ezra, elliot jaimezee: esme, adiam, maja (pronounced maya) jaimezee: asa jaimezee: tuesdae....esther....finnley jaimezee: atticus Quinn: Quinn! Tiffany: SABINE! But you know I love Seven too. And Sagan. And Amelie. Dani: Gabriella... Gaby for short Kevin: Damien!!! erinzee: seven Martin: Sagan Eric: Amelie
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