What's in a name?

Well..hello. :)  Not much to update on the baby-growing front.  The nausea has not completely subsided, but is manageable...and I am hoping it is mostly behind me. Every once in a while, if I move too fast, or the wrong way, I get a sharp pain in my belly, on either side. I am told this is likely "round ligament pain" and can be attributed to the stretching of my belly. Speaking of belly, mine is there.  It's not huge, and some people say I don't even look pregnant to them, but other people tell me I have a definite baby bump.  I have been wearing my maternity clothes for a few weeks now...more for comfor than anything.  It's weird...when you are pregnant you really care MUCH less about how something looks, and much MORE about how it feels. :)

On Saturday, we are going to Baby Belly to get our gender ultrasound. :) I will be ALMOST 16 weeks...and I know, I know, it's a little early, and they could be wrong... but HE-LLO! I can totally keep my receipts after the buying spree we are sure to go on afterward. :) To be honest, I am almost done buying clothes, unless I find something special.  We have tons of little gender neutral onesies, and a few girl outfits, and a few boy outfits...I figured one of the many people I know who are pregnant will have the opposite gender, and I can bequeath them the outfits Baby Wiser can't use.

Anyway, we have our big doctor's ultrasound on September 9th, at which point I would be 20.5 weeks, so we had originally planned a "baby revealing" party on the following Friday. We have still not decided what we are going to do about that... knowing Stuart and I, we won't be able to keep our mouths shut until then, but I don't want to plan something for this Saturday night and then the ultrasound tech not be able to tell the gender yet. :) Ahhh decisions, decisions.

My lovely cousin Kris is planning a baby shower in Owensboro in October...I am so excited, already! I have gotten lots of advice, and a recurring tidbit is not to buy too many clothes, because people love buying baby clothes for pregnant people! Hint hint. ;) Jusssst kidding. 

I head into Dr. Dalton's office tomorrow morning for the monthly check-up. Here's hoping my blood pressure is good, my platelets aren't drastically lower, and he has no trouble finding the heartbeat. :) I look forward to these appointments with a sense of dread, to be completely honest. It is nerve-wracking.  There is a deep fear, in most pregnant women, I think, that something will go wrong.

The only real struggle Stuart and I are having is our baby boy name.  Stuart keeps saying that we have to have a boy name, so that if Baby Wiser winds up being a "he" on Saturday, we will know what to start calling him.  At one point in time, we were set on Samuel Reid...but we just don't know anymore.   Suggestions are welcome. :)

I guess that's really it, things are pretty status quo...  I can't wait to update with pictures on Saturday! :)