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@AprilFool: Not specifically, just that he was. I will ask him though if he has a reason why. And yes @pregnantbee: it totally cracks me up because he really wanted to be the one to come up with her name and I really wanted to honor that. I chose our other children's names and he never second guessed those so I don't know if he just feels the pressure or what!

@coopsmama: Maybe it is the pressure, he might be scared of making the wrong choice and needs some reassurance. Fwiw I think her name is beautiful, I want to steal it

@AprilFool: I think I will just not suggest anything (because I truly do not have any suggestions at this point and because I feel like the name is already hers - it feels right to me) and see if he comes up with anything he likes better and, if so, we will have a conversation about it at that point and I'm willing to consider anything if he has a meaningful and good reason. Otherwise, if he has nothing else to offer - I don't know what to say! Haha. Thank you for the compliment about her (likely) name!

@coopsmama: I'm having cold feet about our two top names still! Even the one I was suggesting. I think it's all just so real and so close now. But nothing else is coming up so its one of those names or names less for a bit.

@T.H.O.U.: I'm just surprised by the cold feet in part because he has been telling everyone for months! So we will see where this goes. Are you sharing your top two? I can't remember. And you're right - it is SO real. The babies could come any time now so it feels like we need to have it all, names included, together!

It's 3:30 am and I am wide awake.

@pregnantbee: This blows. My son came in earlier after a bad dream ("I'm afraid of pirates mama" with tears) and now of course I can't get back to sleep even after he settled down. And the baby in the belly was dancing for awhile, too, which made it harder. Hope you get some rest.

@coopsmama: My DH did something similar a few weeks ago. We'd been decided on Lily for months, and one day he was like, "I really like the name Charlotte." Meanwhile we'd told everyone her name and I'd gotten used to calling her lily. I didn't fight him on it, just kinda nodded along. Then it came up again and I told him I liked it, but I wasn't big on "Char" if people ever called her that and I felt like she was Lily. He kind of agreed and dropped it. I think he just suddenly had cold feet about it and wanted to feel like we're making the right decision.

@LCTBQE: midwife was 90% sure by feeling baby out. Said whatever was down was really wobbly, like a head. She was like "we can do a u/s just to determine" and I was off the table running to the room! She did a super quick check, and we saw top of the head right above my pubic bone!

@T.H.O.U.: @coopsmama: (hides head) im second guessing our boy name and I'm the one who had to convince DH on it!

@OldpuebloJenn: Hooray for flipping!! I hope baby stays put now!

@OldpuebloJenn: @pregnantbee: I think it's totally fine to second guess a name! There is obviously still ample time. I'm just surprised since he has been telling people for weeks AND seems to have no other alternatives. Well, he has told me today to other alternatives but one isn't an option (I threw it out) but the other is I think. Anyone have any famous author names they love for a little girl?! Haha.

@coopsmama: we had two author names on our girl list- Nelle (Harper Lee's given name) and Beatrix/ce (as in:similar to Beatrix Potter). My DH vetoed Beatrice immediately, but Nelle made it to the top three. I love it.

I know it's okay to second guess, but I went to bat for this name and now to myself I'm wondering!

@coopsmama: Virginia, Sylvia, Maya, Simone, and Alice come to mind!

@coopsmama: Sylvia is in my top 5, it's so lovely! Hopefully if you say nothing he will come to his senses

@OldpuebloJenn: whoa, awesome! the last OB I saw told me he was head down, but I keep feeling hiccups sort of on the right side and don't quite believe it yet. sounds like yours is there to stay
@T.H.O.U.: sounds like a rough night I'm getting charlie horses in my calves of varying degrees EVERY night. we're almost there, right?

@LCTBQE: ahh! Greer was on my short list too!

@pwnstar: @LCTBQE: you ladies are speaking my language! I found a 4 box pack at Costco a few months ago, and I bought 3 of them! It's been dangerous to keep them in the house freezer so I have to keep them in the big freezer in the garage. I'd probably eat like 6 at a time otherwise!

@MrsSCB: that's so funny that you knew a Flannery, it HAS to be for the author, right? it's the weirdest name on earth otherwise. I don't love Carson McCullers, but agree the name is adorable for a girl, and the rest of your author names are rad. Willa is REALLY picking up steam in Brooklyn, btw. I know a couple personally, and then I keep walking by the Park Slope summer camp kids on my way to the subway and seeing them--there seems to be a Willa for every Hudson.
@OldpuebloJenn: yes I love Greer! it's so WASPy and cool. agh I can think of 500 terrific girl names and about 2 boy names I feel lukewarm about

@pwnstar: @MrsKerch: @pregnantbee: I woke up this morning feeling very, very little movement for almost an hour (usually at 6am he's hiccuping and kicking like crazy) and it freaked me out, so I tried pwnstar's defrosting x2 pro tip--now back to Alien Resurrection phew. I think it's the sugar jolt and the cold but they always make him go crazy.

Also, don't mean to be a giant bummer, but in Zika news, did you guys see this? I don't think anyone has posted about it on HB in the past day or two.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/health/second-possible-zika-infection-is-found-in-florida.html?_r=0

I'm so grateful we're almost done but so terrified for all women everywhere and all subsequent pregnancies.

@LCTBQE: I had not already seen the article. We actually ruled out travelling to several different places (despite there being no locally transmitted cases and/or no official announcement of the presence of Zika) out of an abundance of caution simply because every report released about the virus was worse than the one before (and it is so difficult to diagnose--short time frame), and logically, it was only a matter of time before cases began to be locally acquired (although I had hoped it would take much longer than it did). It is truly frightening.

@LCTBQE: I LOVE Greer but DH totally shot that down months and months ago. It wouldn't sound fabulous with our last name, either, so probably for the best.

@MrsSCB: Carson is cute! I can see that. I do like gender neutral names. I actually don't mind Flannery that much because it's unique - I also like Tennyson for that reason. We had Willa on our list months ago and DH brought that up specifically the other night but the popularity does worry me.

Last night DH said that he is probably just overthinking it and that we will probably stick with her current name. We shall see!