Here's today's positive. I'm bored w/ taking pregnancy tests. Sure, there is a little satisfaction in comparing the test to the one you took the morning before and seeing if the line is getting darker....but I already KNOW the line is going to be there plain as day, and I'm not in a state of I'm-seeing-imaginary-pink-lines-disbelief anymore.

DH told his parents yesterday. My mother-in-law supports our ideas on natural birth with a midwife outside of a hospital. She said she's fine with it as long as I don't use a birth tub (rolling eyes now). She was really happy for us. We IM'ed eachother for quite a long time last night, talking about baby names, plans, etc. She doesn't like our name ideas, but that didn't really bother me. While I don't want to give my child a crazy name just for the sake of being different that I know will get him/her teased by other kids, I just don't like the idea of giving my child a cookie cutter name.

The entire time I was in school, there was only one other girl who shared my name. It's not an incredibly uncommon name....in fact, I hear it more nowadays than I did back then....but I appreciated not being a Jennifer or Jessica (again, no offense). I want my child to appreciate that he or she is not a Joshua or Jacob or Madison or Emily (those are some of this year's top 10 baby names). But rest assured, I'm not going to choose "Apple", "Moon Unit", or "Pilot Inspektor" or anything like that.

The Social Security Administration's Popular Baby Names page is an interesting visit. You can type in any year since 1880 and view the most popular baby names of that year.

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