I'm 24 weeks today!!
I'm very excited about this milestone. If my baby was delivered today he would have a greater than 50% chance of survival. Now, I definitely don't want him to come now (simply for health reasons). And I'll feel much better when I hit the 30 week mark, which seems way safer to me than 24 weeks. But it's still nice to know, especially considering my worries about my cervix and how I'm afraid it's incompetent or something.
We got the nursery painted this weekend. I don't have any pictures to post at this point, but I'll get them and put them up in a bit. It's so beautiful. Two walls are light blue, two walls are light green. It matches everything so perfectly, and it's so peaceful. I need to get a rocker so I can just sit in there and stare at everything. I can't wait for our little munchkin to get here.
My sister was visiting my parents for the weekend and felt Bambino kicking around a lot. I think she really enjoyed it.
She also returned a black shrug that she stole from me a year and a half ago. She claimed she didn't have it this whole time, but I KNEW she did because there was nowhere else it could be. I was complaining (again) about it being gone, so she was like "You can use my roommate's shrug. I think it's the same one you had and I don't wear it."
When she brought it I was like "THIS IS MY SHRUG!" It wasn't her roommate's!! It was mine! She said I could keep it. Of course I can! It's my freakin shrug!!! And now she's just giving it back to me under the "cover" of it being her roommate's. It's so ridiculous! But at least I have it back. It's perfect to wear while being pregnant.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Cutting out the Fibre
(Disclaimer: I live in Canada, and in Canada we spell a few things differently. Color=colour, honor=honour, etc. And in Canada, it's spelled fibre. I'm not just an idiot who doesn't know how to spell:)
I'm trying to eat a low-fibre diet right now because of my colitis issues. This is difficult for me, because I eat so healthy that I normally consume a TON of fibre. This is fine when I'm not having a flare up, but since the past 8 months have been one long flare up, I'm laying off the fibre for awhile.
Lunches are more difficult for my husband to pack for me now that I'm eating fewer fruits and vegetables than before (yes, my darling husband packs my lunch everyday). So today I asked him to make me a peanut butter and jam sandwich on white bread as part of my lunch (low fibre, remember? Otherwise it's always whole wheat).
It was glorious. I never eat PB&J sandwiches. But my goodness I enjoyed that sandwich! I have no idea why it was so good, but I'm definitely having another one tomorrow.
I'm trying to eat a low-fibre diet right now because of my colitis issues. This is difficult for me, because I eat so healthy that I normally consume a TON of fibre. This is fine when I'm not having a flare up, but since the past 8 months have been one long flare up, I'm laying off the fibre for awhile.
Lunches are more difficult for my husband to pack for me now that I'm eating fewer fruits and vegetables than before (yes, my darling husband packs my lunch everyday). So today I asked him to make me a peanut butter and jam sandwich on white bread as part of my lunch (low fibre, remember? Otherwise it's always whole wheat).
It was glorious. I never eat PB&J sandwiches. But my goodness I enjoyed that sandwich! I have no idea why it was so good, but I'm definitely having another one tomorrow.
Monday, November 30, 2009
23 Week Pictures
Here are my belly pictures from 23 weeks:
You can see my little outie belly button if you look closely:
And my outie here:
Front shot:
I know a couple of people who keep saying that they don't think I'm growing. It's starting to piss me off, because it's absolutely absurd. The last time I posted belly pictures on my blog was at 14 weeks. I posted the same pictures on my facebook. Then I posted 18 week pictures on FB, and I was told that I looked like I hadn't grown at all. I totally had, it just had to do with the time of day the pictures were taken at. The 14 week pictures were taken in the evening, and the 18 week ones were taken earlier in the day.
Anyway, there are a couple of people who, since 14 weeks, have been trying to tell me that I don't look any bigger. Even now, at 23 weeks! It's complete crap, and it drives me nuts. My belly has grown 4 inches in diameter since I was 17 weeks (and it's not extra love handles)! Who knows how much it's grown since 14 weeks (I wasn't measuring at that point).
I just want to slap them and say "Are you BLIND?"
Clearly they are.
You can see my little outie belly button if you look closely:
And my outie here:
Front shot:
I know a couple of people who keep saying that they don't think I'm growing. It's starting to piss me off, because it's absolutely absurd. The last time I posted belly pictures on my blog was at 14 weeks. I posted the same pictures on my facebook. Then I posted 18 week pictures on FB, and I was told that I looked like I hadn't grown at all. I totally had, it just had to do with the time of day the pictures were taken at. The 14 week pictures were taken in the evening, and the 18 week ones were taken earlier in the day.
Anyway, there are a couple of people who, since 14 weeks, have been trying to tell me that I don't look any bigger. Even now, at 23 weeks! It's complete crap, and it drives me nuts. My belly has grown 4 inches in diameter since I was 17 weeks (and it's not extra love handles)! Who knows how much it's grown since 14 weeks (I wasn't measuring at that point).
I just want to slap them and say "Are you BLIND?"
Clearly they are.
Pregnancy at 23 Weeks
How far along: 23 weeks
Total weight gain: about 18 lbs, I think... again, it's hard to say because I was never weighed at the doctor's office before I was 8 weeks pregnant and had already put on some weight.
Stretch marks?: No new ones
Sleep: Still horrible. A few weeks ago I started getting really bad leg cramps every night that make me jump out of bed to walk it off. I am still peeing up to 6 times a night, and waking up multiple times besides that. My OB said I can't sleep on my back (I was really hoping he'd disagree was that particular piece of "wisdom"), so I'm still sleeping on my side and it loads of pain.
Best moments this week: Seeing Bambino kicking on the outside! I realized I could have seen it on the outside a long time ago if I had only looked. It's so amazing to see. Also buying new crib bedding and a car seat. I'm feeling more and more prepared all the time.
Food cravings: Still sweets, particularly chocolate. Also, this past week I have been DYING to drink pop. But I haven't.
Sex: Boy!
Labor signs?: About 20 Braxton-Hicks per day. So glorious.
Belly Button: 80% of the way popped.
What I miss the most: I still gotta say, sleeping on my back.
What I am looking forward to the most: I can't wait until this little munchkin is here in our arms. I cannot wait to meet him. It makes me tear up:)
Milestones: Seeing movement on the outside. And DH now consistently feels Bambino kick and sees it too.
Total weight gain: about 18 lbs, I think... again, it's hard to say because I was never weighed at the doctor's office before I was 8 weeks pregnant and had already put on some weight.
Stretch marks?: No new ones
Sleep: Still horrible. A few weeks ago I started getting really bad leg cramps every night that make me jump out of bed to walk it off. I am still peeing up to 6 times a night, and waking up multiple times besides that. My OB said I can't sleep on my back (I was really hoping he'd disagree was that particular piece of "wisdom"), so I'm still sleeping on my side and it loads of pain.
Best moments this week: Seeing Bambino kicking on the outside! I realized I could have seen it on the outside a long time ago if I had only looked. It's so amazing to see. Also buying new crib bedding and a car seat. I'm feeling more and more prepared all the time.
Food cravings: Still sweets, particularly chocolate. Also, this past week I have been DYING to drink pop. But I haven't.
Sex: Boy!
Labor signs?: About 20 Braxton-Hicks per day. So glorious.
Belly Button: 80% of the way popped.
What I miss the most: I still gotta say, sleeping on my back.
What I am looking forward to the most: I can't wait until this little munchkin is here in our arms. I cannot wait to meet him. It makes me tear up:)
Milestones: Seeing movement on the outside. And DH now consistently feels Bambino kick and sees it too.
Weekend Events
23 weeks
On Friday night I bought a carseat!! It was on sale for like $100 off. It was an infant carrier that goes up to 30lb instead of 22lb, which I really wanted, because our baby would probably grow out of a 22lb carseat in 6 months. The seat is brown and green. I like it!
I also chose and registered for our high chair... after a lot of research I finally landed on which one I wanted... more about that later.
It was a friend's shower on Saturday, then I cleaned the majority of the house, had a fight with David's Bridal (that is ongoing) and went to our provincial secondary school volleyball finals.
Then on Sunday DH and I did a bunch of errands after church. We bought everything we need to paint the baby's room (except the paint... I still haven't decided on the exact shade of blue I want). We also returned the bedding we bought a couple of months ago because it just wasn't practical enough. Here was my reasoning:
-It was $225 (and that was $50 off!), which is a lot of money to spend on bedding, considering we need SO much stuff for the baby and there's no way people are going to buy us everything.
-It was especially a lot of money to pay considering I wasn't going to use the comforter and maybe not the bumper pads
-I really want blue walls, and I wasn't convinced that this bedding was perfect for blue walls
-It's a really wonderfully soft jersey knit fabric. But we have 2 cats who love spending time our crib, and their claws would destroy that soft fabric. Not to mention the fact that their hair would stick to it like mad.
Finally, I had found a dust ruffle and crib sheet (as seperates, since those are all I'm planning on using) that I thought was perfect, so we spent $50 and bought those. So now we have $175 more in our baby envelope that we can use to buy actual necessities.
ALSO on Sunday I registered for a few more things that I wasn't sure about before. I chose the bottles and breast pump I want. I plan on exclusively breast feeding, but you never know when you might HAVE to pump and give the baby a bottle because you are away for longer than you anticipated or something like that.
Later on that day I had tea with my pregnant friend, and then my brother, his fiance, and my mom came over for dinner (my dad was working). I had about an hour's notice, but it was fun!
Some people might think that's it's early to have registered. I don't, considering I'm due in less than 4 months. I don't have any showers coming up, but I just have because I need to feel prepared.
Registering is hard though! Some people can just go pick things no problem. But I have a harder time with that. It takes me awhile to pick big things like high chairs and play pens and car seats and strollers (not to mention the fact that my husband is 6'5" and doesn't fit behind any strollers without kicking them... that really limits my selection to strollers that cost about $700, which I refuse to pay).
I always want what I register for to be in a price range that people might ACTUALLY buy it for us (so no $300 high chairs). But it also has to be something I like, and something that's functional.
For example, it took me awhile to realize what I was even looking for in a high chair. We wanted this cherry wood one where the padding matched the play pen we registered for. But I wasn't sure if we should register for that one because it didn't fold up or recline or anything. But I also wasn't sure if those things were so important.
Then Babies R Us had a high chair on sale, regular $169.99 for $99.99. I liked how it looked online, so I was going to buy it. When I read the reviews a person was complaining about how you had to struggle to get the baby's legs into the leg holes, which were there even when the tray was off. That wasn't even something I had considered when looking for a high chair, but I realized that would be an issue for me.
So that ruled out the high chair on sale, and it ruled out the wooden high chair (after I went to go look at it again I realized it had the same problem). So then I had to pick one that I liked, that went with our house, was reasonably priced, and that I could just sit the baby in like a chair and then slide the tray and leg divider on.
After realizing those were my criteria, I only had one high chair to choose from.
Choosing baby stuff can be difficult!!
On Friday night I bought a carseat!! It was on sale for like $100 off. It was an infant carrier that goes up to 30lb instead of 22lb, which I really wanted, because our baby would probably grow out of a 22lb carseat in 6 months. The seat is brown and green. I like it!
I also chose and registered for our high chair... after a lot of research I finally landed on which one I wanted... more about that later.
It was a friend's shower on Saturday, then I cleaned the majority of the house, had a fight with David's Bridal (that is ongoing) and went to our provincial secondary school volleyball finals.
Then on Sunday DH and I did a bunch of errands after church. We bought everything we need to paint the baby's room (except the paint... I still haven't decided on the exact shade of blue I want). We also returned the bedding we bought a couple of months ago because it just wasn't practical enough. Here was my reasoning:
-It was $225 (and that was $50 off!), which is a lot of money to spend on bedding, considering we need SO much stuff for the baby and there's no way people are going to buy us everything.
-It was especially a lot of money to pay considering I wasn't going to use the comforter and maybe not the bumper pads
-I really want blue walls, and I wasn't convinced that this bedding was perfect for blue walls
-It's a really wonderfully soft jersey knit fabric. But we have 2 cats who love spending time our crib, and their claws would destroy that soft fabric. Not to mention the fact that their hair would stick to it like mad.
Finally, I had found a dust ruffle and crib sheet (as seperates, since those are all I'm planning on using) that I thought was perfect, so we spent $50 and bought those. So now we have $175 more in our baby envelope that we can use to buy actual necessities.
ALSO on Sunday I registered for a few more things that I wasn't sure about before. I chose the bottles and breast pump I want. I plan on exclusively breast feeding, but you never know when you might HAVE to pump and give the baby a bottle because you are away for longer than you anticipated or something like that.
Later on that day I had tea with my pregnant friend, and then my brother, his fiance, and my mom came over for dinner (my dad was working). I had about an hour's notice, but it was fun!
Some people might think that's it's early to have registered. I don't, considering I'm due in less than 4 months. I don't have any showers coming up, but I just have because I need to feel prepared.
Registering is hard though! Some people can just go pick things no problem. But I have a harder time with that. It takes me awhile to pick big things like high chairs and play pens and car seats and strollers (not to mention the fact that my husband is 6'5" and doesn't fit behind any strollers without kicking them... that really limits my selection to strollers that cost about $700, which I refuse to pay).
I always want what I register for to be in a price range that people might ACTUALLY buy it for us (so no $300 high chairs). But it also has to be something I like, and something that's functional.
For example, it took me awhile to realize what I was even looking for in a high chair. We wanted this cherry wood one where the padding matched the play pen we registered for. But I wasn't sure if we should register for that one because it didn't fold up or recline or anything. But I also wasn't sure if those things were so important.
Then Babies R Us had a high chair on sale, regular $169.99 for $99.99. I liked how it looked online, so I was going to buy it. When I read the reviews a person was complaining about how you had to struggle to get the baby's legs into the leg holes, which were there even when the tray was off. That wasn't even something I had considered when looking for a high chair, but I realized that would be an issue for me.
So that ruled out the high chair on sale, and it ruled out the wooden high chair (after I went to go look at it again I realized it had the same problem). So then I had to pick one that I liked, that went with our house, was reasonably priced, and that I could just sit the baby in like a chair and then slide the tray and leg divider on.
After realizing those were my criteria, I only had one high chair to choose from.
Choosing baby stuff can be difficult!!
Friday, November 27, 2009
Father-Son Bonding
22 weeks 4 days
Last night Justin was talking to my belly, and everytime Bambino heard his voice he smoked me with a big kick. It was so cute. Over and over again we watched him make my belly bulge everytime Justin started talking.
It really is a very strange feeling.
Last night Justin was talking to my belly, and everytime Bambino heard his voice he smoked me with a big kick. It was so cute. Over and over again we watched him make my belly bulge everytime Justin started talking.
It really is a very strange feeling.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Bambino Showed Off For Daddy
Last night Justin and I were spending the evening together watching TV, and he saw my tummy move as the baby was kicking! It was so fun to share that with him. It’s just the coolest sight. It’s really amazing for me because I feel it and see it. But Justin was pretty excited that he was seeing my belly move. He also felt Bambino kick a few times, too (which he had already done, but it’s still cool… it never gets old for me, anyway). And we felt his leg lying across the front of my uterus. For a few minutes there was this skinny, long, hard section that came out from where his foot had been kicking me. We’ve felt his head, bum, and back on many occasions, so it was cool to feel his little leg. Although Justin hates when we poke on my belly and feel the baby. He’s afraid we’re going to hurt him.
The baby is getting much stronger. Yesterday was the first day that he was kicking me while I was standing up walking around. Or at least it was the first time I felt him doing it. I could feel it on the inside and the outside, which I found to be pretty impressive, considering all my stomach muscles were engaged as I was walking around.
Today he’s continued on with the kicking me while I’m up moving around. This little guy just loves life. I honestly don’t know when he sleeps.
He was kicking me really hard at one point this morning as I was sitting down and my class was doing art. So I called one of my students over (one I’ve taught for 2 years) and put her hand on my belly. She felt him kick, and seemed pretty awed by it. I’m sure that was the first time she ever felt a baby kick before.
The baby is getting much stronger. Yesterday was the first day that he was kicking me while I was standing up walking around. Or at least it was the first time I felt him doing it. I could feel it on the inside and the outside, which I found to be pretty impressive, considering all my stomach muscles were engaged as I was walking around.
Today he’s continued on with the kicking me while I’m up moving around. This little guy just loves life. I honestly don’t know when he sleeps.
He was kicking me really hard at one point this morning as I was sitting down and my class was doing art. So I called one of my students over (one I’ve taught for 2 years) and put her hand on my belly. She felt him kick, and seemed pretty awed by it. I’m sure that was the first time she ever felt a baby kick before.
Surgical Consult
I had a surgical consult yesterday afternoon. I don’t think I’ve blogged about this (mostly because it’s just TMI), but I’ve been having gastrointestinal issues since April. It started just as I was finishing my first round of injectables; in fact, it started on the exact day of my first IUI. It hasn’t really let up since then. Basically, the problem is loose stools that contain blood and mucous. I wasn’t too concerned about it for quite some time. I thought it would go away, but it hasn’t. Apparently it’s not going to! I first went to my GP about it. He couldn’t figure out what it was, so after a couple of visits he sent me to a surgeon.
The doctors all think I have some form of colitis. Either Crohn’s colitis or ulcerative colitis. Colitis is basically Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which is what I thought I had anyway, so this information didn't shock me.
He wants to do a colonoscopy. I'm not thrilled about that idea just in general (who would be?), but much less while I'm pregnant. It just doesn't seem right to me to have something shoved up there invading space while you're growing a human life. My first instinct was that that’s too dangerous. Besides that, I'm not willing to take the sedatives you need to take for the procedure while I'm pregnant. I told him that.
So the surgeon said "We can do it without the sedatives." WHAT?! Are you friggin insane? Get a colonoscopy with no sedatives?!? Yeah that's definitely not happening.
I said I'm not getting it done until after I give birth. He wasn't terribly impressed with my decision, and I wasn't terribly impressed with him that he thought I should risk my child just over some blood and mucous, and that he suggested they shove something up my bum (an EXIT area only) without drugs.
I asked him what we do if I DO have colitis, and he mentioned the drugs I would go on. I wasn't happy with that either. I don't want to be on those types of medications for the rest of my life. I know people who are on them and they don't seem to help that much, and they have really crappy side effects. Besides that, I won't take them while I'm nursing, pregnant or trying to get pregnant, so it'll be quite awhile before I'd even be able to take them.
After my appointment it suddenly hit me - why have I not gone to my naturopath over this? The thought had honestly not even occurred to me, despite the fact that I've been dealing with this since April. So I headed over to the store. They were all shocked that the surgeon wanted to do a colonoscopy while I was pregnant. First of all, it can puncture the bowel, which would put me into emergency surgery. It can also induce miscarriage. And the very fact that he suggested doing one without sedatives is insane. They made me feel much better about my decision to wait.
They also gave me a bunch of supplements that are apparently fine during pregnancy. Heavy duty (super expensive) probiotics (to super dose me for a couple of months, and then I can go on normal probiotics), L-Glutamine (which repairs tissues and mucous membranes), and Marshmallow root (which soothes mucous membranes). I'm going to take this stuff for a month, then go back and talk to them about how things are going. Hopefully the situation will have improved somewhat and I can continue with this regime.
I would rather deal with this whole colitis thing naturally. Colitis can’t be cured medically, but it can be cured naturally. I would much rather solve the problem, rather than mask the symptoms. I really don’t want to deal with this for the rest of my life. Apparently it can cause such bad problems that you need to get parts of your digestive tract removed… that’s horrible.
I really don’t know why this happened. It’s such an annoyance. I’m really trying to not let it bother me and stress me out, because stress only makes colitis worse. Plus, it’s not good for Bambino.
The doctors all think I have some form of colitis. Either Crohn’s colitis or ulcerative colitis. Colitis is basically Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which is what I thought I had anyway, so this information didn't shock me.
He wants to do a colonoscopy. I'm not thrilled about that idea just in general (who would be?), but much less while I'm pregnant. It just doesn't seem right to me to have something shoved up there invading space while you're growing a human life. My first instinct was that that’s too dangerous. Besides that, I'm not willing to take the sedatives you need to take for the procedure while I'm pregnant. I told him that.
So the surgeon said "We can do it without the sedatives." WHAT?! Are you friggin insane? Get a colonoscopy with no sedatives?!? Yeah that's definitely not happening.
I said I'm not getting it done until after I give birth. He wasn't terribly impressed with my decision, and I wasn't terribly impressed with him that he thought I should risk my child just over some blood and mucous, and that he suggested they shove something up my bum (an EXIT area only) without drugs.
I asked him what we do if I DO have colitis, and he mentioned the drugs I would go on. I wasn't happy with that either. I don't want to be on those types of medications for the rest of my life. I know people who are on them and they don't seem to help that much, and they have really crappy side effects. Besides that, I won't take them while I'm nursing, pregnant or trying to get pregnant, so it'll be quite awhile before I'd even be able to take them.
After my appointment it suddenly hit me - why have I not gone to my naturopath over this? The thought had honestly not even occurred to me, despite the fact that I've been dealing with this since April. So I headed over to the store. They were all shocked that the surgeon wanted to do a colonoscopy while I was pregnant. First of all, it can puncture the bowel, which would put me into emergency surgery. It can also induce miscarriage. And the very fact that he suggested doing one without sedatives is insane. They made me feel much better about my decision to wait.
They also gave me a bunch of supplements that are apparently fine during pregnancy. Heavy duty (super expensive) probiotics (to super dose me for a couple of months, and then I can go on normal probiotics), L-Glutamine (which repairs tissues and mucous membranes), and Marshmallow root (which soothes mucous membranes). I'm going to take this stuff for a month, then go back and talk to them about how things are going. Hopefully the situation will have improved somewhat and I can continue with this regime.
I would rather deal with this whole colitis thing naturally. Colitis can’t be cured medically, but it can be cured naturally. I would much rather solve the problem, rather than mask the symptoms. I really don’t want to deal with this for the rest of my life. Apparently it can cause such bad problems that you need to get parts of your digestive tract removed… that’s horrible.
I really don’t know why this happened. It’s such an annoyance. I’m really trying to not let it bother me and stress me out, because stress only makes colitis worse. Plus, it’s not good for Bambino.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
My Tummy Moved
Last night I saw my tummy move for the first time! I was just sitting in bed watching TV and my belly was exposed because the baby had been kicking, so I was feeling him. Suddenly he started kicking me to the left of my belly button over and over and his little foot kept bulging out.
It was soooooo cool. I almost started crying. Unfortunately, Justin was in the garage training a client, so he didn't get to see it:( If th baby had just done it 10 minutes earlier, he would have been there. He and Bambino have horrible timing with each other.
I realized that I could have seen my tummy move a long time ago if I had only looked (instead of just felt). He wasn't even kicking me that hard compared to how he sometimes does, but I saw every little kick. Sometimes he kicks me so hard it actually startles me, so I'm sure if I would have been looking at my tummy during those kicks I definitely would have seen them!
After the kicking I saw some movements going across my belly on a couple of occasions. I didn't think I would see this until way later.
Take THAT, anterior placenta!
It was soooooo cool. I almost started crying. Unfortunately, Justin was in the garage training a client, so he didn't get to see it:( If th baby had just done it 10 minutes earlier, he would have been there. He and Bambino have horrible timing with each other.
I realized that I could have seen my tummy move a long time ago if I had only looked (instead of just felt). He wasn't even kicking me that hard compared to how he sometimes does, but I saw every little kick. Sometimes he kicks me so hard it actually startles me, so I'm sure if I would have been looking at my tummy during those kicks I definitely would have seen them!
After the kicking I saw some movements going across my belly on a couple of occasions. I didn't think I would see this until way later.
Take THAT, anterior placenta!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wonderful Name News
I got some amazing news this weekend from my husband! It made my entire weekend (despite the intense discomfort I was experiencing).
We no longer have to use "Salvatore" in our son's name. That's his dad's name, and Italian tradition is that Salvatore should be our son's first name, but there's no way that was happening, so it was going to have to be a middle name.
I really don't like that name, and it was embarassing me in advance that that was going to be part of my baby's name. It's just so flippin Italian. However, my husband was insisting that we use it as a middle name, no matter how much I protested. (I'm serious, it was really upsetting me.)
Well, this weekend he was hanging out with his mom and dad and they mentioned that maybe we'd use the name Samuel instead of Salvatore (not that my dear husband told them how much I disliked the name... or at least I hope he didn't). Apparently Samuel is the English version of Salvatore (who knew?) and if we use that as a middle name, they will still see it as us honoring his dad.
I was so excited! Samuel is a normal name!!!! I felt like a weight was lifted off my chest!!
So we have Bambino's middle names picked out (Samuel James). We just haven't landed on his first name yet.
We no longer have to use "Salvatore" in our son's name. That's his dad's name, and Italian tradition is that Salvatore should be our son's first name, but there's no way that was happening, so it was going to have to be a middle name.
I really don't like that name, and it was embarassing me in advance that that was going to be part of my baby's name. It's just so flippin Italian. However, my husband was insisting that we use it as a middle name, no matter how much I protested. (I'm serious, it was really upsetting me.)
Well, this weekend he was hanging out with his mom and dad and they mentioned that maybe we'd use the name Samuel instead of Salvatore (not that my dear husband told them how much I disliked the name... or at least I hope he didn't). Apparently Samuel is the English version of Salvatore (who knew?) and if we use that as a middle name, they will still see it as us honoring his dad.
I was so excited! Samuel is a normal name!!!! I felt like a weight was lifted off my chest!!
So we have Bambino's middle names picked out (Samuel James). We just haven't landed on his first name yet.
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