And all seems to be going well. All my 'vitals' are normal, and the baby's heartbeat sounds good. I've gained 1lb and a half in the last 2 wks, which is 1 and a half in total in the last 4wks - glad that weight gain is slowing down (although obviously then become paranoid that he is no longer growing!). Also my stomach measured 32 wks today, as opposed to 34 wks a fortnight ago.... but that was probably due to the position of the baby. My next scan and next set of appointments are scheduled for June 10th.
Got a little upset last night when people once again thought it was OK to ridicule one of the choices of baby name we've picked out. Really stupidly told them early on one of our favourites, and for some reason a few people think it's OK to ridicule it. We've since made a policy not to tell people for exactly this reason. I wouldn't mind except the name is VERY TRADITIONAL and NOT WEIRD AT ALL. I am not even going to mention it on here because frankly, nobody should feel at liberty to be rude about our choice, but it really did offend and upset me that they found a way to be horrible about it. Also they insisted that Jones = another word for penis, which is absolutely ridiculous. I have never heard that, EVER. I did some research today with loads of American and other Canadian friends on various BBS's I visit, plus on Haddock, and nobody else has heard it either, I think it's some kind of absurd localism - hopefully our child won't grow up here anyway.
Posted by katie at May 27, 2004 01:24 PMI'm sorry I (and the others) offended you.
Given that you'd pointed out that there were a number of names you couldn't call the kid because they had connotations you didn't like, it seemed like you weren't aware of the connotations of this one. So it was partly joking around and partly not.
Honest, we didn't make that Jones bit up. Maybe it is just a local thing - after all, I think everyone at the table grew up around here so it's possible.
Anyway, I won't bring it up again.
Posted by: Steve at May 27, 2004 03:44 PM