Names:

I guess Schenectady is out.


Troy?

Probably not Sarge. Unless the docs think there's something wrong, I probably wont have another one. I'll be happy to just wait and see how he looks when he comes out.

He'll be my first non brown eyed child. Dazza has green eyes and I have blue, so he'll have one or the other. :)

I like Darcy, but Dazza isn't that keen on it. We thought about Axel or maybe Jesse, but my cousin has a daughter named Jessica and she gets Jessi for short, so I'll have to sound out the family politics on that one. lol

20 weeks today. Half way through! Can't wait for the next half to be finished. I'm so over being pregnant...

Congrats! Just a little longer to go...

I suggest Boy: Declan or Adrick
Girl: Miette (my daughter is the only "small sweet thing" I know, I'd love to have another Miette out there)

Anchovy.
Might not be to everyone's taste, but those who love him will love him completely :)

Or my favourite - Felix.

Barack?? I hear it is very popular right now. If you have a girl, maybe Baracka?

Adrick is very close to Aderick which is a combination of my two existing sons names. Aden and Maverick

I don't think Anchovie, Felix or Barack are likely to be front runners, but thanks for playing. lol

Dazza suggested Tye the other day which I don't totally hate, so it's a good chance at the moment.

To complete the symmetry, you need a name like Zeke or Zane. Then you'll have A, M, and Z.

Hmmmm...well that's something to think about...but not for too long. lol

Ayer (he rocks)

Wombat

Goose (to go with Maverick)

Darcy but spelt D'Arsey :D

Ethan, Aidan, Rowan, Gabriel, and Julian are some of my favorite boys' names.

But I'm quite unimaginative. I named mine Chris. :)

Congrats on everything. I have a few fuzzy little u/s photos of my own. For my daughter, back in 1995 they let us bring in a VCR tape and recorded a video, which was very cool! Do they still do that, anywhere? I wonder.

I had a love/hate thing with pregnancy. I hated being pregnant because it just took so damn LONG, you know? But I loved feeling the little kicks and squirms. You get to the point where you just want to "belly watch" because you can see the baby swooshing around in there; you actually see the little elbows and knees poking out, it's so cool!

I kind of miss those days. Not enough to do it again though. ;)

My first two cats were called Gabriel and Raphael. Gabe was my favourite (I cried more leaving him than I did my husband - wicked woman that I am).

But hey, if you're going with cat names, I was delighted that Dylan was named as such, it's a favourite name of mine anyway. The breeder said she never really called him Dylan, so I could change it if I wanted (she called him Twinkle!) but it was Diz's name I'd have changed, given the choice. His given name was Dizney - bleurgh. I'm so not a Disney fan!

Anyway, there's three more for you - Raphael, Diz and Dylan. With two older brothers he won't get beaten up in the playground at least :)

By the time he goes to school, there's a good chance our older boys will pretty close to moving out of home. I don't think they're going to do him much good in the playground. lol

I feel him kicking that's for sure. It's been going on for quite a while now. I can't say I'm enjoying this pregnancy at all though. I'm just waiting for it to be finished.

I can't believe my husband is already making murmurs about another one to keep this one company.

I know, but the threat is always there :)

I suggest you go with a nice, old-fashioned Indian name like Balasubramanian, or Sundaralingam or Radhakrishnan.
Can't go wrong with those. :p

Good point! The booming economies are China and India - give him a name that his new bosses will be able to remember in 25 years :)

Didn't you see where I said I'd like to choose a name that has as few letters as possible? lol

If it has to be asian, I vote for Chi or Wang. :D

Zing is good

it would be cool to be called Zing.

How about Dong? :D

I once claimed to be a Chinese cultural delegate named Long Fat Dong.

So were you telling the truth?

My visa conditions forbid me answering that question.

I'll just let my imagination inform me then.

I like the name Cyrus for a boy...he could go by Cy.

Or something like Max or Thomas.

Cyrus? Hmmmmm.
Prefer Miley! Or at least Miles.

Max sounds like a gentleman criminal.
I like Caspar.

Although four months late, I would still like to say "CONGRATULATIONS"!!!

lol...thanks Tulip. Better late than never. ;)

If you want Persian names, I prefer Darius or Cambyses.

I think he should have a longish name that has various permutations built in. That way, the lad can do a "rebellious" name change and assert his individuality, without having to do a heap of paperwork, and it keeps him on a shortish list of reasonable names so he won't take Treehugger Dolfinlove as his new name.
Maverick is good in that he can be called Mav or Rick or even Ricky (but I have my doubts because, aside from the top gun connection, doesn't it mean calf abandoned by its mother? I digress).
William, Johnathon, Robert, and Elizabeth have lots of good variations, although the latter might be a bit hard for a lad to carry off, especially in Queensland.

Meh, call him Steve. Steve is always cool.

We're down to about 4 or 5 names atm.

Darcy, Tye, Alex (or Lex), and I can't remember the other couple so I'd say they're out of the running for now.

Dazza suggested Julian or some other girly name which I rejected the other day.

I like Alex. I don't think I have known a male Darcy...I have known some females with that name, though.

Darcy is definitely a girl's name in the US. I like Tye, but I've only ever seen it spelled Ty.

Oh...Fabian was the other name Dazza offered the other day. lol Can you imagine that in the school yard???

Gabian who?

Darcy would just end up being Dazza too/2. Tye ...um. Alex ...is sometimes "sandy" here (well alexander is). fabian.....hmmm... nope, and i am a kid-weird-namer

What about Tugboat? all aussie soaps have one, don't they?

Lex is cool. Like Max, but less of a gentleman. I also read some interesting slash fiction on Lex Luther (suggested by Cloud) and he certainly was not a gentleman in that!

How about an animal name like Wolf or Tiger? Actually I knew a young guy whose family always called him Tigger - it was so wonderfully cute to hear this late teen, who was rather brooding in a Heathcliff way, respond to such a childish name. Made me a bit weak at the knees actually! (No I didn't sleep with him - I was sleeping with his cousin)

Or Spider! Very Australian. Although I suppose with Dazza's job a fish name would be more appropriate. Hey - how about Sandy? As in the fish spirit in Monkey. Monster might think that's too... sandy though.

I really don't want to give this child a dumb name that'll be difficult to deal with. Something out of the mainstream is ok, but I'm not naming him after an animal SG. lol

Darcy is a family name on my side, and it's masculine. It was my great uncles name. Darcy Doyle. How's that for some UK roots?

I like Max. That was one of the names we'd thought up one day when there wasn't much doing. Maybe I should bring it up again.

If I saw Darcy on a job application form I'd assume it was male. But then the merkins think Robin is female, so it's pbvious there's a cultural divide anyway.

Sigh - no luck with the animal names. are you sure - how about Weasel ;)

I think you should go with Max, but make his formal name Maximillian, or Maximus.

There was a kid in the store named Maximus the other day (his mother kept yelling at him to stop wandering off, so everyone in the store knew his name by the time they left.)

yes, I always saw Darcy as a male name before I moved here. And Robin. Sidney's female here too.

Mav and Max might get you mixed up a bit (not a personal comment, I had enough difficulty with Hebe and Hector and they were different sexes)

What about Rex?

Good name ... for a dog.

it's getting fashionable for humans again -i know of two baby rex's here.... but not sure how far removed from human you aussies are.... ;)

Actually, when I mentioned Max to the kids, Mav pointed out to me that apparently, Max is the number one dog name in Australia. That doesn't really surprise me. Now that I think about it, I know two dogs named Max.

As far as getting Max and Mav mixed up, it's probably actually a good choice really. I spend a lot of time calling Aden, Maden because I go to call Mav when I mean Aden.

I think all parents call their kids by the wrong siblings name sometimes or as I do, create some whole new combination of both.

At least if there's Max and Mav, Aden wont have to suffer another strange name being added to the list.

Zev.

i have a kid with that name in my focus study at the moment. And gets people wondering what it's short for (nothing, it's just Zev)

Given our personality differences, perhaps you should consider Zane. it's the popular name I hate most right now.... :lol:

How about Thomas Rex Lastname.

That way he can sign as T.Rex. how cool would THAT be???

Not very?

awesome. Damn, I wish We'd thought of that for Thor. He uses "Rock Rex" as his pen name at school sometimes.

Back to the Persian names. How about Xerxes. Spell it backwards and he is Sexrex. That should pull chicks.

lol...nope.

I'm 23 weeks today. Almost through my second trimester now.

I had an antenatal visit yesterday and they offered me a social worker. Apparently they're concerned because I haven't put on any weight at all (in fact i've lost a couple of kg's) during my second trimester. This was after I told them about Dazza being away for almost 2 months and having to do a lot of travelling for the kids each day etc, on top of the ligament damage I still have in my abdomen.

Anyway, I told them I'd be fine. The kids are almost finished school now, so that'll be one less thing, plus Dazza is back, so he can take on a bit more of the burden.

I was actually really surprised that they'd be that concerned. I don't think it's a big deal. I feel healthy. The baby is healthy, and I can stand to lose a few kg's anyway.

So anyway, that's my latest update. Another scan next week - just to make sure everything's ok according to the midwives - and then plain sailing till after xmas.

They told me repeatedly that I wasn't gaining enough weight either. But both babies were plenty big--they were just crushing my lungs instead of stretching my middle.

I feel like this baby is sitting right against my stomach. I just don't feel hungry much and I know it's because my stomach is being squashed. If I eat a normal sized meal I often end up vomiting simply because the food just doesn't seem to be able to go down.

Anyway, I'm not going to worry. I just try to make sure what I do eat counts. And plenty of vitamin C(hocolate)

Have you done your glucose tolerance test yet?

That's in about 4 weeks. 6th of Jan. They don't seem concerned about it though and I have no history of diabetes either during pregnancy or in the family.

Did I mention that I have a thing for pregnant women in overalls?


Just in case you were planning on posting a preggers picture and wanted to know what to wear.

lol...I don't have any overalls, but I wasn't really planning on posting pics anyway.

First time I ran across this thread. Congrats to you Aliantha. My wife may be pregnant with our second, but we're not sure yet. We recently decided to have another, and she's feeling queasy.

I like the names Duncan, Maxwell, Mason, or Ian. If we have a boy this time, my wife wants him to be named Collin.

I imagine you guys have your name all picked out by now.