GTKY: what have you started planning

doxiemoxie212 · September 2016

Hi everyone - hope no one minds doing a GTKY on a Thursday instead of a Tuesday.

What have you started planning so far? Names? Nursery? How you're going to tell people?

doxiemoxie212 · September 2016

I've started thinking about how I want to tell our moms. My mom is my best friend, but she lives really far away, so I won't see her for another month. I think we're going to tell both moms at the same time then. So at around 8 weeks, which is early, but if we miscarry, I think I'll want to tell them that, too, so I'm okay with it.

For everyone else, I'm playing around with some announcement ideas related to Thanksgiving since we'll be in the 2nd trimester right around then - but I hate cheesy stuff. I want it to be something that makes people laugh. Decisions decisions...

Kipperoo · September 2016

I have zero announcement plans...we told our parents in conversation and I've told a few friends because they wondered immediately why I wasn't drinking.

Names and the nursery, however, require a lot of planning for me! They are my favorite part of prepping for the babe. With my first, I did the nursery in slightly kid themed decor but with the whole house in mind--I wanted the room to look like it belonged in the house, not like a nursery out of a catalog with matchy everything.

And as for names, my husband and I have a hard time agreeing, so we've already started the picking process. Ideally, we will be down to THE boy name and THE girl name when we go in for the sex scan. We did that with babe #1 and stuck by that original name (although we did keep debating basically all the way to the end, lol).

doxiemoxie212 · September 2016

@Kipperoo I traded my husband for our first son's name years ago. I don't even remember what I traded, but he's going to hold me to it. Thankfully I do like that name. Girl would be up in the air, but both of our maternal grandmothers have the same name and are deceased, so that's a strong contender.

I don't even think we're going to do a nursery. Big city apt life at it's finest. Hopefully we'll be able to move before baby is a year old. Get me out of the city, please!

Kipperoo · September 2016

doxiemoxie212, I love that you executed a trade when naming your potential son! It's amazing how polarizing something like naming a child becomes. At least you like the name, though! Our name debates are one sided because it's pretty much just me throwing out suggestions that he shoots down. He never has any of his own suggestions, of course.

And big city living with a baby actually isn't all bad...it forces you to pare down and only buy the necessities vs getting overloaded with baby CRAP that only gets used for a few months. We lived in a city apartment when my son was born. :-)

chickyclg · September 2016

We are going to basically be switching the twins nursery to my craft room (which I'm losing

) and the new baby will move into the twins current room. They don't seem like they have any desire to attempt trying to climb out of their cribs so we wouldn't be converting them yet. Their new room would have less wall space but considering we will be removing their dresser for their safety (my sanity) it really isn't that big of a deal.

tumbleweed-1 · September 2016

We are waiting until Saturday (or after) to tell SO's mom. She is getting married that day (I mentioned on a dif post somewhere...). I told him he can tell her privately at the wedding or anytime after. He wants to tell his dad within a day or two of telling his mom. Since they both live in the same area as us he wants it to be in person.

My parents all live in other towns, so I'm debating between mailing cards or calling. If I mail a card, then it's up to the mail carrier who gets the news "first". If I call, I'll have to deal with whoever I call "first" and drama. (I have 4 parents because my parents divorced and remarried when I was really young).

This baby's will be SO's parents first grand kid, my birth father/stepmom's first grand kid, and my mom and "dad" (stepdad's) 2cd grandkid. That was so long. Sorry!

We haven't done any nursery planning except to point out that it will be time for us to take the glow stars off our ceiling and put them on baby's. Lol. Maybe I'll buy more boxes and do up the whole house like the night sky. I just really love stars. I grew up in the country, but we live in a big city now and I can hardly see them at night.

We are also moving in November, I don't know exactly where yet, but that was the plan before we were expecting.

starphish18 · September 2016

We started talking about baby names during our honeymoon 3 years ago, and have pretty much stuck to our favorites since then. Once we find out the sex, I think we'll narrow down. I definitely have a favorite if it's a girl (and refuse to tell anyone out of superstition that it'll become popular this year).

I hadn't even thought about the nursery until now, but I'm definitely going with animals. I'm a zoologist, so I lean towards incorporating animals into my decor anyways (bird pictures, hummingbirds, and I even do animal cross stitch - yes, I'm 85 on the inside). I actually already picked up a decoration about a year ago, intending to one day put it in my kid's room. It has a navy bear and says "be brave, little one". I absolutely love it. We'll probably stick with the colors in the rest of the house: blues, greens, calm yellows.

CajunSnowWhite89 · September 2016

So much stuff lol. We have names picked out and room themes picked. We've started a list of things to put on a registry and started looking at nursery furniture. I have so many lists right now lol

march2008 · September 2016

I've looked at PInterest for fun ideas of how to tell. We are thinking about telling everyone one I'm out of the first trimester, which would be just shy of Halloween....so maybe something pumpkin related??

No clue about names yet or nursery themes! We have a spare bedroom that has been used as an office and that room with become this baby's bedroom. I don't need much this time around since this is our second. Also, after the first, I realized how few things you truly need!!

kat81 · September 2016

Called two daycares. Not much else is planned.

bacorrea · September 2016

We have a name if baby is a boy (Sebastian). Other than that not much. We move in February and we are currently waiting for orders so we can get on the housing wait list. It's hard to plan when you don't know where you will be living!

Yiggle09 · September 2016

We have planned moving ds to the spare bedroom and all the extra work that room needs. We want to take up the carpet and put nice carpet down. We want him to have a desk/ bed instead of just a bed/ transition him to a bed! Exciting stuff. We picked out a color theme similar to his baby room which will become the new baby room. My husband originally said they would room together and I laughed and said are you out of your mind? The baby is not going to sleep with us until sleep trained. At 11 weeks baby goes into their room just like with DS so that I can get some sleep before going back to work without hearing the grunts and things all night long. DS didn't sleep through the night until 4.5 months old so theres a time in there that I wouldn't want them sharing a room. Also my son is very curious and he would probably leave his bed and poke the baby at night...

As for names my husband is like @Kipperoo dh I put names out there and my husband shoots them down. I will not even attempt to look at names until I know a sex because I don't need that kind of stress this early. DS was hard enough to pick. I keep saying I sure hope its not a boy because we couldn't agree on any other name for a boy. He says we'll just name him Joe, which is my husbands name and I said you don't name the second baby after you imagine what the first boy would think when he grows up and that made my husband want to do it even more....

vrj0522 · September 2016

I'm 8 1/2 weeks and we told our parents this week, just by phone, nothing special. We'll tell my siblings after genetic results are back and for public media, I'll probably do the shoe announcement, adding a pair of shoes for the new baby. We should know the sex by then because of the genetic testing.

We won't discuss names after we know the sex simply because it's a pain to talk names. DH and I have completely different tastes in names so it takes forever to come up with a name that we both agree on. On our top floor we have 4 bedrooms and while DD has been in the nursery, her bedroom has been painted and set up since we first moved into our house two years ago. So we really won't have to do much in the nursery once she moves to her room other than change the bedding if the baby is a boy and not a girl.

The only other thing we really have to get done is potty training DD. She is ready but she is scared of the potty and of sitting on the toilet. If I can just get her over that fear, we can get it done. She already wakes up dry every morning and after every nap and she tells me before she pees/poops and grabs a diaper right away for me to change her. She is so ready; we just need her to be willing to do it.

arels483 · September 2016

We've had names picked out since way before we started trying, We're not planning to tell our parents until we have an ultrasound picture to show them. I'm nervous about planning too much while it's still so early.

cclaineDC · September 2016

I've reviewed our maternity/paternity leave policies and checked out a few library books on pregnancy. That's about it. #notaplanner. I have a secret baby pinterest board for all the fun things, but for whatever reason all the beautiful food pics on pinterest make me gag. Baby style will have to wait.

@doxiemoxie212, we also need to get out of the city before we can think about a nursery. The burbs never looked so glorious.

JCWhitey · September 2016

Thinking of names. Then just today I was looking up options on where we can have the baby. I'd love to have him or her nearby but they closed down our hospital. So now I'm debating between a large hospital and a birth center (my only two options). Leaning toward the hospital so I can have the option to stay a day or two if I want and their food is a-mazing! I asked DH what he thought and his answer was "The hospital- their french toast was the best!". Yup that's what we both took away from our 3 stays there last year.

RainyDays86 · September 2016

@cclaineDC we just moved to the 'burbs, and while I love having more space it did kind of kill my soul to leave our place right in the city.

I mentioned this in another thread but I've done a lot of planning for the nursery. We just moved this spring and haven't done anything to the fourth bedroom knowing it would end up being a baby room. It was already painted with really cute beige stripes so I've been thinking about wall art, furniture, and bedding. I have a vision and am very excited to get going on it.

We also have several boy names that we discussed for DS but no girl names we can agree on. We found out DS was a boy at our 20-week scan and stopped talking about girl names at that point, but we'll be team green for this one so we really need to have at least a few girl options.

mrsrep123 · September 2016

Yiggle09 said:
As for names my husband is like @Kipperoo dh I put names out there and my husband shoots them down. I will not even attempt to look at names until I know a sex because I don't need that kind of stress this early. DS was hard enough to pick. I keep saying I sure hope its not a boy because we couldn't agree on any other name for a boy. He says we'll just name him Joe, which is my husbands name and I said you don't name the second baby after you imagine what the first boy would think when he grows up and that made my husband want to do it even more....

My DH wants to do the same @yiggle09!
And I said the same thing you said! DH thinks it's ok because DS has such a "cool name." He also doesn't care about how things are "normally" done.

CANTW82BMOM · September 2016

@Yiggle09 @mrsrep123 My DH said the same exact thing and I've shut that down. We had DS' name picked out, along with 2 girl names since we were dating. We knew we would try again soon after he was born for another baby and we've been trying to come up with another boy name for over a year now. Nothing! He shoots down all the names I throw out and I shoot down all of his. Praying for a girl! Lol

Yiggle09 · September 2016

@CANTW82BMOM Me too! Team Girl right here hopefully.
@mrsrep123 he likes it more because its not normal... men

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