It’s a GIRL!

Congratulations Tracy!! How exciting for you and your family. Best wishes for a reflux free little girl!!! or if she does have it, at least you have this wonderful team of experts waiting to offer help and advice!!

Robin

Funny, Robin, as our Girl’s name was going to be Brooke Marien (Marien for David’s grandmother). I always loved the name Paige Hope or Emily Katherine…..

I will never have a girl, though, so I will have to live vicariously through all you mother’s of daughters here

About the preparing bit, Sarah was 20 months when Hailey was born. We just talked about it a lot, and had her talk to the belly, and talk about what things would be like when her little sister came. We read books, and we tried to involve her in “unimportant” choices- like which blanket do you think the baby would like. We tried to hang around with people who had babies so she could see what they were like, and we also showed her lots of pictures from when she was a baby, including video.

The thing is, that I don’t think anything really prepares them for what it’s like (at least not if Hailey is the baby that arrives), but that’s what we did.

Congratulations!! A sweet little girl! How wonderful.

Liza was only 20 months old when Eliana was born. It didn’t seem like there was much I could do at that age to prepare her. I read books about babies to her but she was still a baby herself. It all worked out fine though. She adapted quite well.

As for names, If Myles had been a girl I would have named him, I mean her, Mirabella. It means “to see beauty.” Her middle name would have been Mesa (pronounced Maysa), which means miracle. I won’t be having any more babies so feel free to use my name. I also really like Lilia (spanish or Italian version of Lily) or Liliana.

Oh, and I absolutley love the name Lydia.

ndrose2007-3-19 13:15:51

Congratulations! That is so exciting. For names, I actually like Leah too and that was my choice for a girl. Funny, my dh later told me he did not like it either but entertained it since he knew we were having a boy all along! Now since we have a Seth, I like Sarah Meredith. I have also always liked the name Brooke and had a baby doll I named that when I was young but it does not flow with our last name. Others I like are Madeline, Hannah, Abigail and Rebekah-there are just too many to choose from! I think girl names are harder in general. My neighbor is also preg. with # 2, but the first girl and she said it has been so much tougher coming up with a name this time. I can’t wait to hear what you decide on.

Hope the nausea passes soon. I also found it harder to cope with feeling ill when you had a little one to look after.

Congratulations Tracy! That’s so neat that you get to have a girl now! (I want one! ) I definitely felt more tired with my second (& third). It’s hard chasing those little ones when you’re pregnant! It’s funny that a lot of you have had a hard time thinking of girl names. Josh & I have had two girl names picked out our whole marriage, and have had a hard time thinking of boy names. Of course we keep having boys!

Well, I hope you get feeling better soon, and having fun choosing a name.