Just came back from my second visit to the clinic, where we got the hear the heartbeat of the baby! According to the midwife (or in this case, midman) all is going perfectly well. The results of the bloodtests they had done on me a couple of weeks ago were just fine. My bloodpressure was a little high, but that is because I’m always super stressed when I have to go anywhere that vaguely resembles a hospital. And I lost 400 grams in weight. Which I just really can’t help and where I have no explanation for except that I was sick last Sunday and I couldn’t hold anything down.
M. joined me this time and I suppose that too had a little to do with my nerves. Somehow I’m more at ease when I’m on my own. Speaking of M. we have one issue that comes up over and over again and I really don’t know how we will ever be able to get around it. It’s the name of the baby. No, not even its firstname, the lastname! I want to give it mine, he wants to give it his. Neither of us is willing to give in. I’m hoping he will be so thrilled when the baby is born that he won’t care anymore, that he agrees that I deserve to give the baby my name because of all the work and pain had I had to go through. Pretty please?
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hyphenate it!!! My sister has a neighbor who’s name is both her mom and dad’s.
By Stasha on 04.17.08 8:08 pm | Permalink
It’s very uncommon, here at least, for a baby to have the mother’s name unless she is single. It’s almost an unwritten law. Men are very dominate when it comes to ‘carrying on the name’. I would agree with Stasha — hyphenate it if it’s that big a deal. I don’t know your SO, but it could cause permanent relationship problems. He may feel that you don’t see your relationship as long-term and are making plans to keep this child more a part of you than him. I really don’t think it is unfair of him to want to use his last name, but if you wanted to hyphenate it I would hope he’d be willing to do that.
By Arleigh on 04.19.08 3:45 am | Permalink
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