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@Mrs. Champagne: I have a girl name and boy name picked out. Thankfully my husband - at least - so far has been okay with them. But they are my names and you can't have them. Nobody can have them! bwhahahahah

Though two of my friends have named their new dogs my girl name in the last month

@Mrs. Champagne: he's going to be Landon (DH's #1 pick, my #7 pick);

I'm still mourning all the other boy names and girl ones I'll never get to use since this is our last!

Saw a friend today who was certain I'm having a boy. I was pretty disappointed, actually, even though it means nothing, it was just a guess. I guess I'm really not ready to find out. Ugh.

-22w3d

DH and I agreed on two full names before the ultrasound. It was more like I proposed two names and he agreed to them. This is way better than last time when we figured out a middle name closer to 30 weeks! I'm hesitant to share because I don't want anyone who know us IRL to find out. But I'm starting to second guess our name now and don't know what to do.

21 w 4 d

@Mrs. Pink: How strange. Glad you're feeling ok!
@brownepiano: Same!
@MrsKRB: thank you

@Mrs. Pink: I'm looking at the Chicco keyfit 30, I was originally looking at the Graco click connect, but I guess the Chicco has better safety ratings.

@Mrs. Pink: we still have our Graco snugride 35 that we will reuse for #2; so we have some time before we have to start shopping for new convertible car seats.

@Mrs. Pink: we are using our graco snug ride 35 from DD. I liked it because it was light weight, and more head support than the keyfit. Also, the no re-three harness was amazing to have. I will never get another seat without it! I also didn't like that the chicco shoulder pads didn't come off. They always seemed to get in the way of a tight harness in the early days especially, and we never use them. I like removable ones!

We will reuse the car seat we had for my son... Chico keyfit I think? Only goes up to 22 lbs though. Probably will get another diano radian rxt like ds has for the convertible.

@pastemoo: DD hasn't used our infant seat for a few months. Even then it was only in my Inlaws car. We switched her to a convertible around 6 months when she got too haven't for me to carry her around in it. I scored some good deals on convertibles over the holidays, so we will use the infant carrier with #2 to start for my car and my Inlaws and she can use the new convertible in DHs car.

@pastemoo: belly band! I'm short- so they go down below my hips even when pulled over my belly button haha

we're skipping the infant seat as well-- I am seriously a weakling and carrying the infant seat was hell. I'd rather wake the kid and put her in a ring sling for in and out of the car!

@pastemoo: oh I'm reusing the bucket! Will eventually buy a new convertible.

We're skipping the infant seat and going straight to a convertible. We had only rented our previous infant seats (the ambulance service in Australia rents out infant seats for a fraction of the cost of buying one - it was great!) and thought about buying one for this baby, but have since decided against it. For a variety of reasons not related to the baby, we'll be switching DD1 to the preschool attached to the primary school on our street in September, which means we will obviously be walking every day. Her current preschool requires us to drive or walk three miles roundtrip twice a day, so if we kept her there next year, we'd definitely go with the infant seat, but now that we will be within easy walking distance, I'm thinking the infant seat is just not worth it...

We've already bought a new convertible for DD2 as her previous one wasn't Isofix (my mistake when ordering online!), and since our car only has two isofix points anyway, we'll use the three convertibles we already have once the baby arrives - two Britax (one isofix, one not) and a Joie (isofix). We're just trying to figure out the configuration as the three seats will be in a row in our five passenger car. Thinking of putting our then 4 yr old DD1 FF in the middle, nearly 2.5 yr old DD2 FF behind the driver, and newborn RF behind passenger. I think that will work best....maybe.....

@pastemoo: @Mrs. Pink: @Ree723: the bucket seat got really heavy toward the end of using it, but oh my gosh, I couldn't imagine not using it in the first 6 months when you can get all those nice transitions from car to restaurant with sleeping baby

@Dr. Pepper: ahh sorry lady! glad it passed, it's always something with pregnancy!!!

@runnerd: True, but I figure with three kids within four years, our outings to restaurants and the like with children are probably going to be limited for a while! We do have an infant seat (it belongs to DH's parents that they bought for the grandkids) we could always throw in the boot of our car for when we do go out to eat and need a place for the baby to sit/lay whilst out, but we probably won't actually use it as the proper car seat. For one, it doesn't have a base and would need to be strapped in with the seat belt every time, and two, it only has a three point harness, as is normal here in the UK.

As for the cramping, are you drinking enough water? I did find with my other pregnancies that if I was dehydrated, I did get a bit crampy. And my water requirements skyrocketed during pregnancy as well so whilst I thought I was getting enough, I obviously wasn't.... Hope you start feeling better soon!

@runnerd: I'm not sure I would describe it as cramping but I've had achy pain low and under my belly. I get it most when I've been standing a lot or need to drink more. I usually just assuming it is my muscles getting tired! It always seems like every time I bring up various pain to the Dr they just say it is normal, so I try not to worry about it anymore.

@Dr. Pepper: So scary! I'm glad everything settled down though!

@runnerd: I don't know what's normal or not... but I get some cramping from when I hold my bladder to long and then after i finally pee it cramps for bit after! And then due to constipation I'm getting cramps form that but no 'baby' cramps that I know off! I do have a friend who is have cramps and her doctor told her it was her uterus stretching.

@Mrs. Pink: No leakage! But my areola and nipples are way way darker then normal!

We had our twenty week scan today (Even though I'm 19 weeks ) And everything looked good and normal. Still measuring about 5 days ahead but the number didn't jump any higher at least! But I guess the baby wouldn't cooperate for some of the photos so we're doing another ultrasound on March 4th.

And then I had spent all weekend psyching myself up to stay Team Green Strong... And my Husband 15 minutes before our appointment was all like "YAY we get to find out today!" and I'm like . I told him I was fine either way and if he really wanted to know we could find out. So we (he!) decided that I could use him as scapegoat excuse to find out what we are having but I'd have to promise not to blame him for ruining it for me.

But we're having a boy! (gotta keep to the June Theme!)

And omg... I invited my parents along and my dad would not shut up about the Doritos commercial where the dad teases the baby with a Doritos during the entire time!(go watch it's pretty funny) The on our way out he made my mom show it to all the office ladies on her phone....

@brownepiano: But an interesting one. I love the EddieBauer seat, but I don't want to try to fit 2 in my car.
@Ree723: sounds like a good setup
@Dr. Pepper: Hug. Rough week! Good luck on your interview and get well, soon.
@runnerd: i cramp when i do anything too fast but i hurt a lot less this pregnancy that i did last time. last time 2nd tri i went to ER twice for severe pain that turned out to just be the baby.
@Ree723: yes, less outings with more kids... but still, i prefer to wrap/hold the baby. if this is my last baby, i'm not leaving it in the seat this time--that i miss.
@Mrs. Pink: interesting. i still get drops when i shower--never stopped since weaning over a year and half ago! nothing increased from that, but yes tenderness!
@RKitty: oh, husbands.... sorry you had to find out with no prep, but congrats on your boy! thanks for updating the list

First Lamaze class tonight!
-22w5d

My best advice for those of you researching car seats is don't just look online. Go to a store and try the features you think you want. Oh and try them sideways, not face on. And probably one handed too. Then decide what matters most to you. No one car seat is going to have all the features you want.
Good luck! I don't miss those days. I'm perfectly happy to go to a consignment sale and buy whatever is available. I hate information overload!

@pastemoo: Well... I had planned to find out then went back to not finding out... but I was just annoyed because I asked him like a gazillion times if he wanted to know and the answer was always no... until right before the appointment!

@MrsKRB: thanks

@Mrs. Pink: I kind of wanted a girl, but only if I managed to make it to July. Otherwise I really didn't care. Odd said boy anyways. (My husband's and I family run more male heavy then anything)

@brownepiano: Thats our plan this weekend! We're going to check out a few and mess around with them to make sure we like the chicco one the best.