Pregnancy Journal: Week 13

Week 13 is about halfway over, but I wanted to wait to post until I actually had something to say.

First, let me start off by saying HELLLOOO 2nd Trimester!!
 
Last Friday I didn't post anything because I was having an NTT ultrasound done. That's the one where they go and look at the baby and measure the thickness at the back of the neck to give you a risk factor for Down's Syndrome. I haven't had the test done in the past because I would have had to drive into Worcester and because quite frankly, even if they DO find that I have a high risk, I won't abort, so it's kind of pointless.

So why go and have the test done this time you ask? Well, I wanted to see the baby. I'm having a bit of a hard time bonding with this child, probably because I wasn't thrilled to get knocked up again, so I'm taking every available opportunity to sneak a peek and start imagining life as a mother of 3.

Anyway, the ultrasound went great and I got some fantastic nub shorts to analyze and try to figure out the gender from. Unfortunately, I got about 9 different pictures and they go both ways. In some images it's forked, which means a girl, but in other images it's not forked and it's at a slight upwards angle, which means boy. The forked ones seem pretty parallel to the spine, which again would indicate girl. So you can't really get a good idea either way, but it's still fun to speculate.

Also, we've come up with some names this week.

If it's a girl, I'm leaning towards Alleigh, though my husband prefers Ally or Allie for the spelling. He also likes the name Allison, which is what we were going to name our youngest daughter, but she did NOT look like an Allison when she was born, so we had to come up with something else and she was nameless for 3 days. If it's a boy, I'm leaning towards Jacob, though my husband likes the name Jack and I don't think Jack is a nickname for Jacob. I thought Jack was a nickname for Jackson or something like that... consequently, we are NOT naming our child Jackson. Another "hitch" in the plan is that Jacob is what my husband's cousin that lives in Tennessee named her baby, which was like 3 months premature or something incredible like that (happy to report that he is doing fantastic right now with apparently no lasting side-effects of being a premie). She used to live in New England and was close with my husband growing up. They are the same age, only a few months apart and they used to live down the road from one another, so it's not like some obscure family member that named their kid Jacob or anything.

Anyway, that's the update. :-) Do you think it would be tacky to ask my husband's cousin if she minded if we used to name?