FFFC* 3/23

mrsbubbles-2

Who doesn't need a little David Caruso in their lives?
*Oh yeah, and never gonna be flame free.

mrsbubbles-2

FFFC: I actually love CSI Miami and will binge watch to satisfy my David Caruso craving.

Judge away.

mapleandbacon

I just booked my placental encapsulation and am weirdly so excited about it.

tpwkalyn

@mapleandbacon Ooooh I want to hear more about this! I had a friend do it a few years ago when she had her first; and I'm very intrigued!

mrs_drc_rn

I might get some flames for this, but I don’t really see the need in making siblings names sound good together. The whole time we’ve been looking at girl names for this baby, I never thought about what would “pair well” with DS’s name. 

mapleandbacon

For sure, I can elaborate more in another thread somewhere whenever it comes up.  I didn't with my first and regretted it.  I did as much research as I could this time around, and although it's controversial, I'm happy with my decision!!

ecwk

mrs_drc_rn said:

I might get some flames for this, but I don’t really see the need in making siblings names sound good together. The whole time we’ve been looking at girl names for this baby, I never thought about what would “pair well” with DS’s name. 

You must think a little bit though, like wouldn't you think Kenny and Jenny would be weird? Or Annie and Danny? Or Jack and Jill? Or even Charles and McKennzyie or something? A classic and a Youneek name? Lol. And this is totally not me flaming you BTW - I bet your name(s) will be awesome!! 

mrs_drc_rn

@ecwk I totally lol’ed at “Youneek.” I can definitely see not wanting their names to rhyme or be too similar for sure. But like, I saw an article about all of these twin names and it was like “perfectly paired names for twins.” Like, I don’t need them to pair well together. And I’m not one for crazy name spelling anyway! 

windywoman

@ecwk I looked at your post and thought you said a classic and a Yankee name lol. 

AFM... I am going to the Casino tomorrow and I am so freaking excited! I LOVE the Casino! We never spend our money for bills or anything crazy like that but, we would go like once a month before BFP. I am hoping this LO is gonna bring us some luck! 

mrsbubbles-2

So I think we've settled on a name for baby girl and it's suuuuuuper similar to both our boys' names lol! In fact, it shares syllables with both. I don't think I even noticed until my sister pointed it out. Oh well!

But I hate the term 'sibset'. I see it all over the baby names board and it makes me cringe.

@mapleandbacon - can't wait to hear about the placental encapsulation!
@Brezzy1928 - hoping you guys have ALL the luck! Have fun!

legallykate

I am guilty of overthinking names "going together." (But I at least do NOT use the term '"sibset"!) I vetoed Sophie in part because then I would want a Greek-origin boy name if our next is a boy and DH doesn't like any Greek boy names. And names that "sound good" with my favorite boy name (Sullivan) get a thumbs up from me. Rationally I know this is cuckoo and DH is right to be like "hey why don't we focus on THIS baby since we don't know what will happen after this one?" So yeah flame away.

ecwk

On the topic of names, I intensely dislike last names as first names *puts on fire retardant suit* 

mrs_drc_rn

ecwk said:

On the topic of names, I intensely dislike last names as first names *puts on fire retardant suit* 

lol DH went to school with a Harrison and he was a total d-bag. He kind of ruined the whole ‘last name as a first name’ thing for me.

ecwk

I hate potluck style lunches. I don't know what your kitchen is like. Did you even wash your hands? No thanks! *shudder* 

calimom2524

ecwk said:

On the topic of names, I intensely dislike last names as first names *puts on fire retardant suit* 

ME TOO!!! My best friend is due with a boy in a few weeks and they've decided on Nolan (which I love btw) and then yesterday she's like omg I heard the cutest name for a boy, Ford. I was like UM NO. Don't you DARE! 

Firemanswife11

We are going out of town tomorrow for a week. I'm at work, but  I'm not working...I'm researching all the food I'm going to eat. 

ecwk

calimom2524 said:

ecwk said:

On the topic of names, I intensely dislike last names as first names *puts on fire retardant suit* 

ME TOO!!! My best friend is due with a boy in a few weeks and they've decided on Nolan (which I love btw) and then yesterday she's like omg I heard the cutest name for a boy, Ford. I was like UM NO. Don't you DARE! 

I'm terrible - I really don't like the name Nolan. All I ever knew it as was a last name until I moved to the US so I just don't get it. Still 896859 times better than Ford. Hard Pass! 

jsnakehole

I had a Kayden/Jayden pair one year. I don't mind Harrison as a last name name, but only because of Harrison Ford. 

pghctwife

ecwk said:

On the topic of names, I intensely dislike last names as first names *puts on fire retardant suit* 

I only like it when it’s a name that’s actually significant to you. I have a cousin who’s pregnant with a girl and plans to use her maiden name as a future boy name - it’s obviously a last name, but it’s one that works as a name. Since it’s her maiden name i think it’s great. 

My my own maiden name is an Irish surname that’s moderately common. Similar sort of sound as Sullivan. My sister plans to use it as a middle (which is also different) for her son. I met a little girl at preschool who’s given name is my maiden name. Excitedly asked the mother if it was her maiden name... nope she just liked it,and liked some nicknames off it. Um. Ok. I was like ‘oh because it’s my maiden name, ya weirdo’ lol. 

calimom2524

ecwk said:

calimom2524 said:

ecwk said:

On the topic of names, I intensely dislike last names as first names *puts on fire retardant suit* 

ME TOO!!! My best friend is due with a boy in a few weeks and they've decided on Nolan (which I love btw) and then yesterday she's like omg I heard the cutest name for a boy, Ford. I was like UM NO. Don't you DARE! 

I'm terrible - I really don't like the name Nolan. All I ever knew it as was a last name until I moved to the US so I just don't get it. Still 896859 times better than Ford. Hard Pass! 

To be fair, I don't LOVE it and I wouldn't name my kid Nolan, but they're HUGE sports fans. Their first son is Kane after Patrick Kane on the Blackhawks so this one is Nolan after Nolan Ryan. 

mrsbubbles-2

@jsnakehole - were they twins? Idk if it's weirder if they are or aren't.

I had to google because I couldn't come up with any last names that are used as first names and the only one I could get on board with was Carson - but that's because there's some family stuff in there.

pghctwife

Definitely use the term sibset, sorry! 

I totally appreciate sbdnlike it when they flowcwell togather. I wanted ours to go well together but frankly naming 3 boys was way too hard so that went out the window. Our names work fine, they aren’t like ridiculous... but they don’t flow like I might have liked. 

And we totally named rory knowing that a theoretical hypothetical future girl would be ruby - so it’s Henry Isaac Rory ruby. Oh well.

ecwk

@pghctwife
I can get on board with the family significance - to a point. A girl I know named her daughter Maidenname Girl name Lastname - Like Burke Olivia Smith - you get the idea. Yuck. But the maiden name as a middle name - I think that's great! I am considering doing that if I have a boy. 

windywoman

Harrison is pretty much our top boy name! lol. To be honest I didn't even think of it being a last name. I don't have a problem with last names as first names anyway. I feel like people could do way worse. 

7425cait

I am totally the odd man out, cuz I can get on board with surnames as first names more than I can all these old timey names. 

Flame away, but I totally milk the poor pregnant lady at the end of the day so I can sit on the couch and bump rather than prep DD for bed. DH does it, and then I meet them upstairs for the bedtime story. 

livinthesunnylife

My son's name is pretty normal for a first or last name. 

FFFC I think that whole placenta eating stuff is hokey.  And I only caught a peek at that thing, but I can't imagine wanting to eat it.  It just seems very cannibalistic to me. 

pghctwife

ecwk said:

@pghctwife
I can get on board with the family significance - to a point. A girl I know named her daughter Maidenname Girl name Lastname - Like Burke Olivia Smith - you get the idea. Yuck. But the maiden name as a middle name - I think that's great! I am considering doing that if I have a boy. 

Yeah it’s harder for a girl ... the nicknames of the girl with my maiden name are normal girlie no but it’s an especially odd given on a girl.

unless your maiden name is like, rose or something they just tend to sound more masculine imo 

calimom2524

livinthesunnylife said:

My son's name is pretty normal for a first or last name. 

FFFC I think that whole placenta eating stuff is hokey.  And I only caught a peek at that thing, but I can't imagine wanting to eat it.  It just seems very cannibalistic to me. 

This was going to be my FFFC! Get out of my head. My nurse showed me my placenta and shoved her fist in it to show me where baby's head had been. It was cool to see but yeah...no way I'm ingesting that in ANY way. 

lalala2004

My thing with the placenta encapsulation is that they make all these claims, but they’re all anecdotal. There are no studies. I need proven results to go to that trouble!

calimom2524

@lalala2004 I totally agree. I've seen "claims" of what the benefits are but there are so many other factors that play into post partum how can anyone prove the benefits were caused from the placenta vs. hormones or just life itself?

scottishlass1213

I refuse to look in the mirror during labor.  I don't want to see that. I didn't for DS and I won't for this one.

livinthesunnylife

Also a lot of the claims around the placenta thing have to do with avoiding PPD.  I was not in a great mental state during the last 2 weeks of my pregnancy, but I had no PPD.  Once the baby was out and in my arms, I was like high on life for the next month or so.  I had friends that had PPD in my BMB and I tried to be supportive to them, but I really couldn't identify with it.  Like....the babies are here now, the world is magical.  Everyone handles the rush of emotions and hormones differently I guess. 

jsnakehole

I want nothing to do with my placenta. They can do whatever they need to do with it and leave me out of it. 

calimom2524

I had PPD with both of my kids and I still wouldn't go near my placenta. 

mrslittlemac

Yes to making sure sibling names aren't too similar or too different; hard pass on the encapsulation; maiden name as first name is an awesome concept--if only mine would even remotely work. Yeah, not even for a middle.

AFM: ummm. Daughter has been dressed in dinosaurs and camo and (apart from her "nice" clothes--mostly purples and light blues) whatever other dark/stain concealing "boy" clothes since pretty much day one. The only pink thing she owns is from her grandma. I don't bother to correct strangers, and if I get side-eye from people I know, I shrug it off. She doesn't need a bikini swimming suit or ruffles or animal print or light colors she can't otherwise be a tiny destructive kid in. 

mrsbubbles-2

FFFC x2 - I was alllll about that mirror - seeing DS crown was the greatest thing ever! And I wanted to see my placenta as soon as it was out of me. I mean, my body not only made a tiny human but made an entire organ to sustain him?!? I probably would have taken that thing home with me if I'd thought to ask. But newborn baby and all, every thought fell right out of my head.

livinthesunnylife

@mrsbubbles-2 eeeeew no!  I was not watching an interesting show, I was ripping open.   I didn't need a mirror to see the carnage

7425cait

I would love a mirror next time! So cool!

mrsbubbles-2

@livinthesunnylife - hahaha!
TMI TMI TMI - If you're squeamish about blood and stuff stop here!

I even watched them sew me back up lol! But I think that's more because the nurses forgot to move the mirror, I don't think they normally want you to see that. I didn't mind, I thought it was cool. But I'm weird like that

Firemanswife11

livinthesunnylife said:

@mrsbubbles-2 eeeeew no!  I was not watching an interesting show, I was ripping open.   I didn't need a mirror to see the carnage

Right? I didn't even look down there for weeks and even that took a lot of courage. And maybe alcohol. *shudder* 

delujm0

I also hate last names as first bames, but I don't think Harrison is a last name!  DHs great-grandfather was Harrison.  I also think of Harrison Ford.  I mean I think it CAN be a last name but it isn't like a last name that suddenly jumped into the fairly recent trend of being used as a first name.  It's been used as a first name for a looooooong time.

I also want nothing to do with my placenta and didn't even look at either of my first two.  And I refused the mirror as well.  No desire to know what the downstairs looks like until the doctor declares it healed at 6 weeks.