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Misc. and baby names

Thanks for your suggestions for names for our little girl! Some have been really in line with the types of names we like. We have two first names that we are considering. We’ll need some time to test them out to see which one fits.

We’ll probably break some of my “rules.” First of all, the “easy to spell” rule will likely be broken — not that we’re considering difficult-to-spell names, but because ANY name can be misspelled, and people just don’t seem generally good at spelling names. Oh well.

Second, the name could possibly have a similar letter/sound to one of the names in our household. We’re trying to decide if we’re ok with that.

We will again likely keep the name a secret until her birth. We don’t want to have a name ready to go, look at her, and say, “Well that’s not you!”

(Plus, we don’t want to hear negative opinions. Ya know?)

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Johnny is now 19 months and saying more and more each day. His sleep sorta varies each night. Some nights once he’s asleep, he’ll stay in his bed and room until a reasonable hour in the morning. But lately, he’s been waking and coming into my room to get in my bed. Last night, I woke to a tiny hand on my butt. Good grief! We’ve got to work on this some more.

He’s not nursing anymore. The last time I breastfed him was at the Toy Story 3 movie at the drive-in on July 3. Aww. My milk supply is simply non-existent and it hurt to continue nursing. I want to elaborate more on the whole breastfeeding and weaning experience in an upcoming post.

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I ordered the Hypnobabies home study course, and I’m really impressed. It seems like a complete childbirth preparation course, and one that will help me! It has some of the things in Bradley that I liked, but there are quite a few key differences. I plan on blogging more about this, too.

Karen and I are probably going to start the study at the same time (between 28-30 weeks or so). That’s Septemberish/October.

I’ll also likely blog about each week’s lesson so you can get more info.

When I was shopping for childbirth prep courses when I was pregnant with Johnny, I did see the Hypnobabies web site but it just seemed sorta kooky to me. Now that I have one birthing experience behind me, I can more concretely know what I want and don’t want this time. And, I know that I need more mental preparation skills than I could get with Bradley.

I am optimistic about this home study. I’ve been listening to the pregnancy affirmations track, and the “peaceful sleep now” bonus track, and they are both pretty good, I’d say. Those two tracks can be enjoyed by anyone who is pregnant — not necessarily just by people who are Hypnobabies students.

The actual course will teach me how to use real hypno-anesthesia, which is the same type that patients who are highly allergic to traditional anesthesia use when they need surgery.

This stuff is the real deal, vs. Hypnobirthing (at least, the home version was) which just was so incomplete in this regard.

Check out Hypnobabies if you’re pregnant and interested in a childbirth prep course, or if you’ve already taken Bradley and want something more.

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I’m still reading the Bible in 90 days, and I’m in the middle of Isaiah right now. I thought I’d break up the Psalms and Proverbs and read a few of those each day instead of reading straight through them, since it’s hard for me to stay focused for long in those books. I have 37 or 38 days of reading remaining.

I am learning so much! I’m really glad I set out to read it in this manner. I’ll also be done a little bit before I begin Hypnobabies, which works out well.