The Beauty of Two Pink Lines
The following involves a good deal on the topic of menstruation, so guys, if you're grossed out you might want to talk amongst yourselves about lawnmowers for awhile. :)
I have an uncooperative body. I have a long history with various hormone regulation drugs, beginning at the age of 15. Thus it was no surprise that, when my husband and I started trying to have kids a year and a half ago, there were difficulties. Normally, you have to try for a year before a fertility doctor will even speak to you, but that's assuming that your body is at least functioning normally on a superficial level. Since mine wasn't even doing that (after going off my hormone regulation drugs--which share a lot of properties with birth control pills--we waited four months and I did not manage to have any kind of cycle on my own,) they kindly let me see the fertility specialist before the standard one-year requirement.
I started Clomid a little over a year ago, at varying dosages each month. I started having a cycle again on the medication, but this was not necessarily an indication that I was actually ovulating, as my monthly blood tests proved. A normal woman would have blood drawn on the 21st day of her cycle, to determine if she'd ovulated around Day 14 as is typical. Except then they figured out that my cycles were about 5 days longer than a "normal" cycle, so I had to have two blood tests each month--one on the normal day, and another 5 days later, in case my cycle was longer because I was ovulating later than normal. All of them were negative anyway.
This was in addition to the dozen or so other blood tests I had to go through to make sure, for example, that my progesterone and estrogen levels were normal at a variety of times throughout the month, and my sodium levels were good, and my testosterone levels were right, and my thyroid was okay... I am on a first-name basis with all of the medical assistants in my doctor's office. And here's the really funny part: I have terrible veins. Apparently they're tiny, and they like to "roll". A normal person's inner elbow has at least one distinct blue line running down it--not so on mine. Whenever I have my blood taken, they have to stick me with the needle at least twice. There's a little-known law (or maybe it's just policy, I don't know, but I've seen it at more places than just my gynecologist's office) that says that if a nurse fails to find a vein after the second try, she must pass the task off to a new person. I once had my blood taken by a doctor because they ran out of medical assistants to use on me.
Then there were all the other more invasive tests, to verify that my ovaries weren't covered in cysts, and my fallopian tubes weren't blocked... Even though the former test came back negative, my doctor said she still had a hunch that I might have cysts, they just might be so small as to not show up on the sonogram. So in addition to the Clomid, she put me on glucophage, which is a medicine for diabetics that makes you more sensitive to insulin. For some reason, and no one really knows why, glucophage also happens to cause ovarian cysts to shrink. Because of this I ended up on several diabetes mailing lists, and I get junk mail about it all the time.
After the first month on glucophage, still no ovulation. But the second month, I did! But the third month, negative again. They bumped my Clomid up to the maximum they felt comfortable given my body size, but I still was only ovulating every other month. And, of course, not getting pregnant on any of them.
Around June, I went back through all of my receipts and determined that, through office visit and prescription copays alone, we had already spent more than $1,000 trying to get me pregnant. Which was, of course, nothing compared to the money we'd spend on more intensive treatments like in vitro if it came to that. (If you want to know where the saddest and most pathetic people on the internet are, visit an infertility messageboard sometime. Some of these women have been trying for more than 10 years because they just can't afford the stronger treatments.) And of course that had a whole slew of other complications besides the money, not the least of which being multiple births.
Supposedly, Clomid only raises your chances of twins by 10%, and your chances of higher-order multiples are not increased at all. Which is all well and good from a statistics standpoint, but anecdotally, my doctor said she had actually had two patients in her office get pregnant with triplets on 50mg of Clomid, the lowest dosage. (At my peak, I was on 150mg.) The real nightmare was both of them had smallish frames like me, and it was recommended to both women that they "reduce," which is a polite way of saying abort the weakest triplet. One of them did, and had healthy twins. The other said she couldn't bear to--and lost all three of them. Not really a decision I wanted to have to make.
And now, fingers crossed, I won't have to.
I was expecting my period yesterday, and this morning I took a pregnancy test. Two pink lines have never been so exciting!
I am telling the whole internet this, ironically, because I can't tell my family and friends yet. I am still at a very high risk for miscarriage, and I simply couldn't bring myself to call everyone back in a few weeks and say "Nevermind." We're waiting at least until after the first trimester before we share the happy news.
Of course I did get to share the news with everyone at the doctor's office. When I called the nurse to let her know that she didn't need to call in another month's worth of Clomid for me, she literally yelled out into the lab, "Hey, y'all! 'Clodfobble' had a positive test!" And there was cheering in the background. :) I go in tomorrow to begin a whole new slew of blood tests, and at 8 weeks I will have another internal ultrasound, at which point they will in theory be able to tell me how many embryos there are. Hopefully it's no more than two. But I admit I've always wanted twins. :biggrin:
Way to go, Clodfobble. I wish you and your husband and your (reeeaaaallly) little ones the best. My prayers are with you all.
Yay!!!!
How exciting for you!!!
excellent! my ex and i tried and tried and tried but never could. (yeah, those fertility drugs are expensive!)
Congratulations and good luck!
Congratulations - How Exciting!!!!!!!! :)
I hope for the best, great luck and congratulations!!
Thanks everyone. I couldn't be more excited. And it turns out, I get to find out as soon as next Thursday whether it's twins or not (we're not even mentioning the other "t" word right now...)
Congrats Clod. It's the most work you're ever going to love.
When they make you nuts you can recite that whole post to them then add the standard mother's guilt trip. Cool. :3way:
Oh! Far OUT! That is sooooo cool, Clod! I am just so happy for you and yours! Little ones are just----well, indescribable! You've got all my best wishes and good vibes! Thanks for sharing!! :)
Hey, congrats Clodfobble.............Best of luck to ya......:joint: :rasta: :jig:
Have you any news?
(hopfully it's good news...)
Have you any news?
They've confirmed that it's "likely" just one in there, which is good. Other than that, not really. My hair is falling out in droves and my boobs hurt like hell, but on the other hand I haven't had a bit of morning sickness. :thumbsup:
It might be just sympathetic symptoms, but kids make me loose my hair too, mostly on the sides, above my ears. Boobs are ok, though.
I too am anxious to hear any news...?
They've confirmed that it's "likely" just one in there, which is good. Other than that, not really. My hair is falling out in droves and my boobs hurt like hell, but on the other hand I haven't had a bit of morning sickness. :thumbsup:
How are you doing? Everything still going okay?
Another thread that I was late in seeing. Congrats to Ms. and Mr. Clodfobble, and little Clodfobble.
May I thoughtfully recommend boob massage? I'm sure Mr. Clodfobble won't mind helping you out.
Yep, still doing fine. Definitely only one in there. It's turning out to be very hard to keep it a secret from my extended family until it's time for my stepkids to get to announce it at Thanksgiving.
May I thoughtfully recommend boob massage? I'm sure Mr. Clodfobble won't mind helping you out.
Oh I'm sure he wouldn't, but
absolutely not. Those things HURT just getting breathed on, I don't even want to think about actual squeezing.
Oh I'm sure he wouldn't, but absolutely not. Those things HURT just getting breathed on, I don't even want to think about actual squeezing.
Talk to SWMBO, after 22 months of nursing the inchinchinch, she does not allow me to look at them nor even mention them. Thankfully, the weaning has begun!
By the way, it seems I failed to congratulate you. You will be (are) a great mom.
way to go clod, how exciting it will be to tell your loved ones.
I sympathise with you a lot on all the tests you had to go through, im in the process of going through a lot of biopsies and ultrasounds myself.. (but not cuz i wanna have a baby). When my gyno told me that it was unlikely that i would be able to concieve easily.. i cant say that i really minded. i always thought of becoming pregnant as something that i would like to be a fate driven thing. You see TV shows about mums trying for years and years and it makes me feel so frusterated. i think there is a reason that some people cant have their own children.. like i think maybe when the time comes for me to be ready to raise another human being, that the child i adopt will be in need of my care.. and that fate will be evened out that way. Everything happens for a reason...
So how did you get on Clod? have you told your family yet?
My immediate family knows, but we're waiting until Thanksgiving (Nov. 24) to tell my stepkids and then we're going to let them tell my extended family. The only reason we're waiting to tell the extended family is so the kids won't think they were the last to know.
I'm new here, but I also went the Clomid route to have my son. After all that trying, I know how grand those two lines can be! :) Congratulations, and I hope the rest of the pregnancy is healthy and easy.
Oh, my hair fell out in droves, too - it did that for a couple of months after my son was born, but it stopped eventually.
~Lisa~
this will sounds extremely strange ( hell, it's me afterall) but for the whole "boob soreness" issue... try some oral stimulation. on you. not him. sounds stupid, but apparently that relieved the issue for my wife. yes, seriously.
and there's a little something extra in it for him...
Re: Clomid and hair falling out during pregnancy...is that a known side effect of the drug?
I wasn't on fertility treatments, but I noticed after rugrat was born I lost a ton of hair. I just figured I probably wasn't shedding as much as normal during the previous months due to hormones and my body was just readjusting back to normal. (My nails were the most beautiful they had ever been too)
Ahhh, the "beauty" of pregnancy. I kept my spirits up by telling myself that this was mother nature's way of getting me into practice for the next quarter century of making sacrifices for my brood...and boy can she be a mother :lol:
One thing I didn't do, but now REALLY wished I had was take pictures of my belly at regular intervals to see the change. I only have a picture of me at about 6mo, in a swimsuit on vacation, and a couple about 2 weeks before she was born. (and one 24hrs post partum showing my C-section staples that I can use for guilt inducement later as needed ;) ) For #2 I am going to take front and profile pics of me so I can see what other people saw. On second thought, that might not be your cup of tea, but I like to go back every once and awhile and look at the couple of pics when I am feeling the 'urge' for another one. I'll know I'm ready when I think I looked perfect. (I'm not there quite yet)
Had the standard 18-20 week ultrasound yesterday morning... All healthy and growing just right!
Also, we knew from the very beginning that we wanted to know the gender. As an impatient person, I have a hard time mentally replacing "being forced to wait" with a pleasant euphemism like "keeping it a surprise." :) So anyway, it's a boy. :male: I can't wait!
YEAH!!! I repeat my earlier congrats. The ultrasound makes it all the more 'real' that there is someone IN there...I'm all goosebumpy.
That's just swell, Clodfobble, if you'll pardon the pun. We, on the other hand, did wish to remain in suspense about the gender. We figured it was going to be the last time we would be surprised by that aspect--why rush through it? :)
Way To Go, Clodfobble and Family! :celebrat:
Hooray Clodfobble!
OK now that you can rule out choosing girl names, your work is 50% easier.
So what have you guys been thinking about for names so we at the cellar can, ahh, help you.
You realize we're going to need to vet your selections?
:)
Max was the main boy-name frontrunner for a long time, but once it actually became a reality, I started waffling again. Kyle is another one that pops up frequently. When making suggestions, you should know that my last name has a whole lot of n's in it, so most names with n in them are completely out...
Any ethnic consideration?
Oscar is nice. I'd like to knock up Pete by accident so we could have a Finbar, Barry for short.
Please do not choose any names that will guarantee that FobbleJr will be beat up on the playground.
You owe this precious being you are bringing into the world that much.
(and for any pending girl-parents that read this ... no weird spellings of normal names, and whatever you do, no Heathers, Crystals, or Tiffanys (Tiffanis are even worse.)
Thank you.
I have a friend named Karyl (pronounced as carol). She has never forgiven her parents.
Max Fobble. It's a strong name, no nonsense.
A great baby–naming scene is in "The sure thing" and here is an old SNL skit that is pretty funny about baby naming.
The two schools of thought on talking about potential names are 1) tell people and risk being chilled by their feedback or 2) don't tell anyone until you introduce the baby because very few people will be crass enough to say
"Ronald? what kind of fucked up name is that"? They'll just think it instead and say something like "what beautiful eyes he has"
Of course if you choose that latter we will badger you until you need to make up a new user name if you want to visit the cellar
:)
A large consideration on my part is that I absolutely refuse to choose a really common name. I hated the fact that there was always at least one other girl with my name in every class in school. In fact, I went to high school with another girl with the same first and last name. So no Aidan, or Jacob, or Ethan, etc... But that has to be balanced with the fact that my husband doesn't want any "weird" names. Apparently a lot of older names (common in the 1900s-1930s) fall into this category, much to my dismay.
Don't worry, footfootfoot, Ronald has an n in it, so it's outoutout. :)
Whooooo!! I'm so excited to hear that everything is going good!!!
Names are so hard. There is a mountain here in town (actually it's technically considered a hill) call Gavin. I've always liked that name, but I know you don't want a name with an N.
My ex was on some kind of western thing when I was pregnant with our son. He wanted to name him Wyatt, Trace, Levi.... I don't remember the rest. We decided on Garrett, and it fits him perfectly.
It's so hard to find a name that isn't common, yet isn't unusual.... Good luck!! ;)
I have NEVER had to name a kid ,
But I have named a few dogs ( not makeing ANY compartisons here ) ,
What i alwas do is call the dog pup and baby , and spend LOTS of time sitting on the floor with them ( gots to get down on their level , Don't ya know !!!) untill their personality dictates their name , I Know this is uncommen to most civilized folks .
But this is what i do for pups .
The weirder the name the weirder the person. That's empirical.
Weird is easy. Unique is hard. It'll come to you if you let it.
I like Max. I also like Ace. Darragh is a nice Irish name.
I have a friend (ex-coworker, really) who named his kid Axle. The first syllable of his last name is "Weld." Apparently I am the only person who thinks this is awesome.
Unfortunately, zip, you can't use the puppy naming algorithm for babies. They insist you have a name for the beast before mom and baby are discharged from the hospital, which is well before baby has established a personality. If it doesn't have a social security card, it doesn't exist these days ...
There were a couple of books, now out of print IINM, by John Train titled: Remarkable names, more remarkable names and even more remarkable names. (OK that's a few and not a couple) the names were gleaned from phone books, hospital records, etc.
...They insist you have a name for the beast before mom and baby are discharged from the hospital...
A number of 'infant male' and 'infant females' kept their names into adulthood. This is apparently the name you get when you can't decide, yet it is time to vacate your room at the hospital.
Oh, I could tell you stories of some names that I see in my line of work.
Take medical terminology that 'sounds purty', add someone without a complete grasp of the English Language, and you end up with a child named some weeeeeird stuff.
Oh, I could tell you stories of some names that I see in my line of work.
Take medical terminology that 'sounds purty', add someone without a complete grasp of the English Language, and you end up with a child named some weeeeeird stuff.
You can leave off the last names to protect the innocent, but do share with the rest of the class...
Yes, do. I could use a laugh.
We have a common surname/last name. Our children have unusual but not never-before-used names: Hebe, Hector and Thor. Hebe is more common in the UK than US, Hector and Thor are more common in the US. We have only ever met one child with the same name as one of our children, and that was another Hebe. Just in case they grew up to hate their names, we gave them each two middle names -one almost guaranteed unique and one pretty ordinary. But we wouldn't be offended if later down the line they chose something completely different. A rose by any other name and all that....
Oh and congratulations!
"Hebe" is generally considered an insult on our side of the pond.
"Hebe" is generally considered an insult on our side of the pond.
Originally a racial one, no less (though not so much anymore). In the Hispanic population, Hector is downright common over here, but I've never met a Thor.
But thanks for the congratulations, monster!
I be,
we be,
she be,
he be,
it be,
them be.
What's the problem?
"Hebe" is generally considered an insult on our side of the pond.
Not if pronounced correctly ;)
Hebe is the Goddess of Youth, Cupbearer to the Gods -in Greek mythology. It's also the name of a beautiful shrub with white or purple flowers. Hebes are getting very popular in the UK, but cannot take the Michigan weather. Very gutted to leave my garden of Hebes I was, when we emmigrated. :(
Still.... at least I get to laugh at people called Randy over here..... :p
wow three good post on my first day :)
My daughters names is Grey Autum Hill
(no i don't mind that i gave her full name)
and the weird thing was i didn't realize the scheme of it till
after we decided on the name My wife wanted to name her
autum green but I didn't like it but I though grey would be a
nice name then to please my wife i said how about
grey autum then our last name being hill i only realized
about a few days later the whole scope of the name
I get alot of she is going to be a rock star or artist with a name like that
(although she is an awsome artist for 3)
like somehow if you have a diffrent name other than the normal U.S. set you have to be an artist or musician
on that thought I'm making it my lifes work to make sure my daughter ends up as an accountant or claims adjuster just to prove all those weird Sons Of Bitches wrong
that would be cool if his last name was Jeebie.
max is going to be very common when he is in school.
caleb, jacob, michael, matthew, too
I need to know your last name to really be of any help, though. a lot of n's isn't working.
brennan?
why not embrace the n? ned, nanook, Ivan, noah
i like Magnus, but didn't have the balls to do it.....so....Spencer .....fits perfectly (i guess this is mainly true, as you always know a child by their name)
be cognizant of potential nicknames and abbreviations, too.
read the Illiad for some pretty groovy old names. Uripedes, Achilles, Agamemnon
nevermind
max is going to be very common when he is in school.
Baloney! Common-ness is possibly my number-one concern, you can bet I've researched it. In
2004 (2005 data not being 100% compiled yet), Max was the 73rd most popular boys' name, behind such notables as:
68. Isaiah
64. Hayden
58. Liam
35. Brayden
23. Jackson
15. Jayden
I can live with 73rd.
How about just plain, old "clodfobble jr."?
What the hell kinds of names are Brayden and Jayden? Those are just damn stupid. They are not even names, dammit.
Be careful going by those lists of common names. They are drawn from the nation as a whole, not from your community, or the social circles you will be travelling in. A name that is number 73 on that list may very well be a top ten name in your community.
In 1999, we didn't want our daughter to have a common name. We researched the lists. We wanted to name her after my grandmother, Isabel. Isabel, the year before she was born wasn't even in the top 100 names. But Isabella was something like number 98. We figured it would be fine. The only Isabel I knew was the next door neighbor's ten year old daughter. Well, after naming her Isabel, we have found out that it's a faily common name around here. She's already been in classes with other Isabels, where the teachers had to use their full names to call on them. And they named a freakin' hurricane after her. She didn't like that.
What the hell kinds of names are Brayden and Jayden? Those are just damn stupid. They are not even names, dammit.
I laughted at this, until I checked the
UK list for 2005 - and there at #84 was Jayden. Bizarre - I've never heard of it before.
Delighted to see that the names I'd like to inflict on any boy-child of mine aren't there, although it's the reverse with girl's names. Just have to hope that by the time I decide I want babies, the names have dropped off the list again....
Use the name generator on World of Warcraft or a similar RPG.
Aggramaxxoneith or something
Congratulations! Be prepared for the ride of your life. First, one of the best books out there is Natural Childbirth: the Bradley Way by Susan McCutcheon. I read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on the first time around and still felt as though I didn't have enough info. I found this book my second pregnancy and felt as though I had found the light. Lots of good stuff on nutrition, nursing, physical and emotional aspects of labor. Be warned that there are lots of pictures of labor with no clothing. So, if you are squeamish about that, sorry. I had an OB nurse tell me she got more in depth info from that than from her training.
Names are fun and oh so personal. Just find something that resonates with you and "daddy". Your little boy will fit into whatever name you pick. Although, you might want to steer clear of fruit names.......
There's a very cool name page
here. It shows the most popular names in the US over the last century on a dynamic graph. Lots of fun.
What an awesome page!
Check out "Susan," which I always think of as a common name. It was number 3 in the 1960s and fell to 565 in 2004.
Check out Adolph. It really drops off in the 1930s and 1940s. But is seems to start its slide in the 1920s. So maybe it has nothing to do with the famous one after all.
Look at the results for Farrah. What a hoot. Courtney had a big push in the 90s. What does that tell you about American society?
I can't think of any instances like that for guys names.
Because guys, unless you are one of the Phoenixes, tend to have normal sorts of names.
Oh I like this!
My real name peaked at number 19 in the 1950s and dropped sharply from there - it wasn't even in the top 1000 by 2004.
My name was most popular when I was a teenager. Coincidence? I think not! :lol: (actually it wasn't popular at all in the UK -quite miffed -I was- to move to the US and find out I'd become common :cool: )
Hebe is a girl, btw, and yes, we call her Hebe Jeebie. If we'd've thought about it and known what we know now, you can bet your bottom dollar we'd have made her initials Hebe G. B. :lol: But we didn't. She was our first born and we really thought we'd never take the mickey out of her. How wrong can you be? Hector became Hex and we came soooo close to really giving Thor "Trouble" as a middle name (and boy do I wish we hadn't chickened out at the last minute, now, it would have suited him perfectly)
My glucose (looking for gestational diabetes) and iron (looking for anemia) blood tests both came back negative last week. Hooray! No restrictive diets for me! I'm officially in the third trimester now, and so far I think I'm doing pretty damn well in the "not being one of those psycho pregnant ladies" department. :)
My stepson's new favorite game is to run up to me, say something in the general direction of my stomach, and then cackle madly and shriek, "He doesn't understand what I'm saying!!"
I just discovered this thread. Congratulations, Clod! Sounds like things are going well with the pregnancy. I am happy to hear that!
On the subject of weird names....My husband is Dakota who has 2 brothers, Darqel (notice the lack of a "U"), and Quinton and a sister Wesinda. Yes, when we were dating, I told a few of my friends about him, forgetting to mention he was a "he" and then a lot of shock when they realized Dakota was not how they had pictured "her". Somehow he makes a much more handsome male than he would a female. I have also heard people tell me about a million times that they had a friend/relative with a dog named Dakota. He has heard the old question too many times to count: "North or South?" Just like the jokes about "Justin Case" make me want to barf. (Yes, I do have a brother named Justin. No, I don't think my parents have a great sense of humor, nor did they ever. It was purely coincidental and was a result of lack of forethought on their part. Dammit.)
My stepson's new favorite game is to run up to me, say something in the general direction of my stomach, and then cackle madly and shriek, "He doesn't understand what I'm saying!!"
:lol: How old is he?
Very happy to hear that there haven't been any major issues with your pregnancy. It can be scary enough seeing what a
normal body does during the whole process, without having to worry about additional health concerns. I suspect you are feeling the little parasite move quite frequently. For me that was by far the best part, especially late when she was moving all the time, not just when I was lying down. She had the most powerful hiccoughs, it was crazy. I actually felt pretty lonely once she was here, sort of like losing a friend or something. I missed having that constant companion. And no more excuse of "just talking to the baby" when I was really just talking to myself :)
On the subject of weird names....My husband is Dakota who has 2 brothers, Darqel (notice the lack of a "U"), and Quinton and a sister Wesinda.
Is your husband (and/or his siblings) black or multi-racial, or are naming trends just really different in the Western United States?
How old is he?
He's four, and he's definitely a strange one... as an example, the kid can
read, but he's not even close to being potty-trained yet.
Case, my husband's three aunts are Thirza Lou, Lorna Rae, and Lura (rhymes with "stir-uh") Jean.
I too just discovered this thread
Congrats to the Codfobbles
We gave my son an Unusual name, that everyone seems to like
Hugh
Not that many Hughs out there
The only problem was stopping people with "Baby Huey", but most did not try. As my son is a MAJOR character - He often is called by his FULL Name "Hugh Armand G....." - EVERYONE in school and after school knows he is HUGH ARMAND
Thanks case, Charlie, and marichiko in the H5N1 thread... speaking of "Pebblefobble," how sad is this: it has genuinely occurred to me more than once that I have to figure out how to refer to him on the Cellar once he's born. I mean, how can I compete with such cool names as "smoothmonikette" and "inchinchinch"? "Clodfobble" just doesn't lend itself to miniaturizing.
Anna (Child #1) was for a LONG time "Peanut" as that is what she looked like in her first sonogram (Wife hemmoraged, we though we lost her- she's 9 now)
Hugh is "Hugh"
Together they are "The Piglettes"
I too just discovered this thread
Congrats to the Codfobbles
We gave my son an Unusual name, that everyone seems to like
Hugh
Not that many Hughs out there
The only problem was stopping people with "Baby Huey", but most did not try. As my son is a MAJOR character - He often is called by his FULL Name "Hugh Armand G....." - EVERYONE in school and after school knows he is HUGH ARMAND
I work with a guy named Hugh. There are also two relatively famous actors, Hugh Grant and Hugh Jackman. Hugh is a great name for a kid, unless his last name is Jass.:rolleyes:
Thanks case, Charlie, and marichiko in the H5N1 thread... speaking of "Pebblefobble," how sad is this: it has genuinely occurred to me more than once that I have to figure out how to refer to him on the Cellar once he's born. I mean, how can I compete with such cool names as "smoothmonikette" and "inchinchinch"? "Clodfobble" just doesn't lend itself to miniaturizing.
Well, you have the best minds available and ready to put to work. While we're waiting for them to weigh in, I'll toss out the following.
You have a multiplicity of choices, when he tells a lie, it could be "clodfibble" or if he displays minor character flaws it could be "clodfoible" if he turns out to de a daydreamer it could be "cloudfobble".
So you see, you have a lot of choices. As for miniaturization of "clod" We could look at the progressively smaller fobbles right on down to "femtofobble"
As for particle sizes we have this from pocket ref:
boulder >256mm
cobble 64–256mm
pebble 4–64mm
granule 2–4mm
very coarse sand 1–2mm
coarse sand .5–1mm
medium sand.25–.5mm
fine sand .125–.25mm
very fine sand .0625– .125mm
silt .0039–.0625mm
clay <.0039mm
As for particle sizes we have this from pocket ref:
boulder >256mm
Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but does this mean that a boulder is anything >.256 meters (0.256 meter = 10.078 inch)? I just call that a 'rock'.
I have an uncooperative body. I have a long history with various hormone regulation drugs, beginning at the age of 15. Thus it was no surprise that, when my husband and I started trying to have kids a year and a half ago, there were difficulties. Normally, you have to try for a year before a fertility doctor will even speak to you, but that's assuming that your body is at least functioning normally on a superficial level. Since mine wasn't even doing that (after going off my hormone regulation drugs--which share a lot of properties with birth control pills--we waited four months and I did not manage to have any kind of cycle on my own,) they kindly let me see the fertility specialist before the standard one-year requirement.
I have to figure out how to refer to him on the Cellar once he's born.
Clod's-able. ;)
May I humbly suggest "CFMinor"? That way, it encompasses ClodFobble, as well as having a certain suggestion of musicality, which not only elevates the cool factor to almost that of Smoothmoniker, but reflects your career path in audio.
"And I shall call him... Mini-fob."
Is your husband (and/or his siblings) black or multi-racial, or are naming trends just really different in the Western United States?
Dakota's family is of Norwegian/German/Irish descent. He was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas. His extended family and many of those in the same religious organization as his family had unusual names, too (although his mom and dad have common names.) Many of the people in that particular religious sect name their kids with names that start with the same letter, as well so all of their initials will be the same.
I have to figure out how to refer to him on the Cellar once he's born. I mean, how can I compete with such cool names as "smoothmonikette" and "inchinchinch"? "Clodfobble" just doesn't lend itself to miniaturizing.
Kidfobble?
"And I shall call him... Mini-fob."
I know, I know, no "n"s, but...
Rubin has always struck me as a great name.
...Or Yngwie (yes, there's an "n", but its pronounced ing-vay)
1.) It is possible for a fetus to get the hiccups. It is possible, in fact, for him to get them for up to twenty minutes at a time, roughly every other day, for weeks on end.
2.) It is NOT possible for a fetus to have an allergic reaction in the womb (which one might worry about if there is a family history of potentially fatal peanut allergies.) This is because an allergic reaction is essentially nothing more than an immune response (to something it shouldn't be responding to) and the baby's own immune system doesn't kick in until after it's born.
3.) It is possible for your feet to swell not JUST so large that you can't get any of your regular shoes on... not JUST so large that you can't get your goddamn flip-flops on... not JUST so large that your ankle is literally a dimple inward instead of a nice protruding bone... but so LARGE, in fact, that the pressure is strong enough to break all the surrounding blood vessels, and your feet become two bruised and bloated water balloons.
4.) It is profoundly embarrassing to have to re-park your car somewhere else because you were estimating in old-school mode about what would be "enough room" for you to get out of the vehicle door.
So clodfobble, are we talking "any minute now"? Have you gotten past the stage of a ten minute drive taking twenty five minutes because you ahve to stop and pee three times?
What's the count down?
Supposedly the countdown is two and a half weeks from now, but I'd personally put the big money on more like a week and a half. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself. I've transitioned pretty much everything at work to other people, and the house is as ready as it's going to get. It's worth noting that I'm not a very patient person... :)
Nah. It's down to two, but beyond that I think I have to see him before we can settle on a final choice. My husband has decreed that I'm not allowed to tell anyone the two remaining possibilities, since I'm very easily influenced--he doesn't want one person who hates both names to convince me we have to start all over.
Is your belly button really sticking out? It's like the turkey timer that pops out when it's done.
If everyone can clearly see it when you are wearing a sweater, then it's time!
Ugh. It's been sticking out for about two months. I hate it.
My stepson informed me awhile back that it looked just like a little volcano. :headshake
Well, now I'm all excited. I feel like we've been there for the entire process...well, except for the conception, of course.
Pity the photos didn't work out... :redface:
Good luck, CF. Babies are fun for the first couple of weeks or so. :)
Awwwwesome CF!
Here's hoping the hiccups are Krakatoa's opening act and that the main event is just around the corner. Man, I laughed out loud at that one. Sorry about the ankles, though.
Yay Clodfobble!! Yay Baby C!
Nah. It's down to two, but beyond that I think I have to see him before we can settle on a final choice. My husband has decreed that I'm not allowed to tell anyone the two remaining possibilities, since I'm very easily influenced--he doesn't want one person who hates both names to convince me we have to start all over.
Do the two names work as a first and middle name?
No, each one has its own accompanying middle name. I've never really cared much about middle names, as long as they sound good with the first name. I figure, if I really really like the name, then I don't want to waste it as a middle name, I want to save it for the next kid. :)
Good luck with it all.... :)
Good luck, CF! Any day now, right?
The most unusual name for a child I ever came across was a Navajo boy whom his parents had named Jensen for their stereo speakers. His little sister is named Jaydah (not sure why - I know of no stereo equipment by that name or Navajo traditional name either).
My new next door neighbor who is Zuni is named Rick. Go figure.
The Japanese dude who runs the best pizza place in the WORLD (Chicago Pizza, downtown Taipei) is also named Jensen... I'll have to ask him if that's a traditional Japanese name or if he named himself after speakers too...
Whenever I deal with someone named "Tercel" I wonder if that was where they were conceived.
My brother in law's name is Jensen!
Yes, any day now. Certain (relatively disgusting) things (that I will be kind enough not to describe here) have begun to happen, which indicate labor should start sometime in the next several days or so. It would be nice if it were today/early tomorrow, since my stepkids are here with us for the weekend and would really like to see the baby right away instead of waiting until the next time they're with us, but no contractions yet.
My brother in law's name is Jensen!
Was he named after his folks' stereo or is he Danish? :D
I found my winner for Most Presumptuous Person. Every pregnant lady has at least a few contenders (and unfortunately they are usually all relatives) but I am honored to present this award to the new blonde waitress at my favorite Mexican restaurant, where I eat at least a few times a month.
As I sat down, she attempted to take my drink order. More specifically, she asked, "Can I get you a Sprite, or a decaf iced tea?" (Now this was not grossly out of line, since it's a commonly-held myth that pregnant women are supposed to avoid caffeine, though the reality is that they should simply not have ridiculous amounts of caffeine, on the order of 6-7 sodas a day. And even then, there are conflicting studies.) I told her Coke would be fine.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, and assume that her eyebrow only twitched because she's got a facial tic. Christ, it's not like I was ordering a damn margarita.
I knew what I wanted, so I went ahead and ordered what I've gotten every time for at least the last 8 years, the Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas with Queso Verde Sauce.
"And would you like to substitute a fruit cup for the rice and beans?"
...
Uh, no. I'm not in the habit of going to greasy Mexican food restaurants for their fresh fruit, lady. I'm surprised she didn't drop off the check with a few pre-natal vitamins in place of the mint. :rolleyes:
Please tell me you managed to leave her a ripe one as you left. :p
When SWMBO was about 87 months pregnant there was a flurry of unsolicited advice/alien encoutners that came our way.
As a side note, SWMBO is somewhat humor impaired due to childhood trauma rather than missing humor genes, however when the humor surfaces, it is vesuvial. Anyway,
We were out at a restaurant and some crazy doting waitress was getting all in her face in a "I'm going to win the helpful award of the year today",
SWMBO mentioned that she felt a little dizzy, and the waitress countered with some nutty inappropriate thing (I wish I remembered) and SWMBO looks at her and says "No, it was probably the five rum and cokes I had."
I'm not sure she ever came back to our table after that.
Relax, Cfob, the helpfulness hasn't even begun...
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So it's gonna happen in about... 14 hours, then? Good luck!