[Closed] Today we will mostly be having a baby

I think that if you want to be shouting 'Roo! Roo! Stop it Roo!' in a slightly posh but ineffectual voice when visiting the park in a few years time you whould go for your choice 😉

Hope all goes well with the operation later.

Good luck. I am gifted with an unusual name it does now fit me but did mark me out at school l could never get away with anything as teachers and pupils always remembered who I was.

As will we. Mrs Benjamin's has just broken her waters everywhere and started contracting. Feeling a tad nervous!

Our local playground on a Sunday morning. One dad shouts ISAAC!!, 30% of the kids turn around

@geetee

Excited for you. For us the second was almost a bigger life changer than number 1.

I'm not so keen on those names for a girl ! i hope that's because you know what you are having ...

@benjamins

Thanks for sharing that, just had my breakfast 🙂 Good luck.

Both of you keep us posted.

How about Naylord ?... (kidding)
🙂

Congrats !, good stuff. Hope all goes fine for team GeeTee today 😀

EDIT:
Yeah, all the best to Ben, too !.
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Good luck to those about to become parents (again). Remember not to mention to the missus that it looks nice out and that you'd rather be riding.

Good luck to both ladies.

Fathers-to-be - remember you are now closer to the bottom of the domestic pecking order than ever before.

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good luck fella!

I thought Bradley as a name was on the cards...!

Jedediah?

Good luck guys

Billyboy don't kid around, it was one of my suggestions. I got a thing for old testament names. Must be the catholic upbringing I still can't shake off!

Good luck to everyone else having their lives changed today. Let's check in this evening and see how it all went.

Hi Greg, congratulations mate.

Good luck, I was the same with my second

I'm sure it will be all fine.

remember, it's never too late to change your mind.
I think Carl is a much under-used name these days, or Frank.

I was the same with my second

me too..

I like Methuselah, or Enoch or Stan

Congratulations. We had number 2 a fortnight ago now, and have stuck with random names from the far north/north west of Scotland. Which is unusual in Cumbria 😉

I like Reuben and she likes Isaac

My friends have twins called Reuben and Isaac. You never know..... 😉

Good luck!!!! 😀

Kronos do tell the names. Need inspiration in case we have deadlock.

Binners definitely only having one!

You never see a Burt anymore do you...

good luck neo-paternals!

Fathers-to-be - remember you are now closer to the bottom of the domestic pecking order than ever before.

So very true... 😐

Think I would go for Isaac out of them two.. I am not one to ask though, we called our two Meg and Rex 🙂

I worked with someone who's sons were (in order, eldest first):

Issac
Noah
Jonah
Joshua
Benjamin
Elijah

We have Lachlan (oldest @ 16 months) and Hamish (2 weeks)

We have Lachlan (oldest @ 16 months) and Hamish (2 weeks)

And evidently no TV in your house.... 😉

lol

We have a Ben & Joe
15 & 13 years respectively
I'd love to say it gets easier but I was taught never to lie 😀

Good luck to all, the smell of nappy sacks does go away eventually.

Probably too early to be talking about Vasectomies.

You guys can start a thread when you are ready, ie when the wife suggests you have one 😥

WE? You're there to provide moral support. SWMBO is doing the work 8)

Now push Mrs B, and crush his hand! 😀

Hope it goes well for you both.

Contractions getting more regular now, off to the hospital in about an hour. eek.

Topical joke : whats the difference between a midwife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Why not start each new kid's name with the last letter of the previous one, like a fun game? We did that.. sort of.. Meg and Gwen.. not deliberately tho 🙂

The second kid is way harder I think. Say the first one takes up 75% of your time, you still have 25% left. When you have another kid taking up 75%, you have a problem. That never goes away...

Molgrips you should work for a trade union with that level of optimism.

Ones like having a pet. Two's like running a zoo.

Goodluck Benjamins. Hope all goes well. We're sat here waiting to go to theatre now. I'm wearing my very fetching scrubs.

[b]molgrips[/b]
The second kid is way harder I think. Say the first one takes up 75% of your time, you still have 25% left. When you have another kid taking up 75%, you have a problem. That never goes away...

Good luck fella!!

Don't look over the screen... 😕 Really... don't 😐

Here's to all going well for all of you.

PS. If I'd had my way my youngest would be called Stanley (it got as far as to be his middle name but it was a lost opportunity to get this great name back into circulation... other than on tools!).

I might be oversharing but I'm just excited.

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It'll look better when you get the cut down wellies on... just how much mess are they expecting to make which requires the wearing of wellies!

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My two's names still make me laugh.

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just how much mess are they expecting to make which requires the wearing of wellies!

When carlosg mk3 was born (breech with complications) my left arm looked like it had gone 8 rounds with a rottwieler 😯 lucky me I was wearing an old t-shirt.

Good luck to all the expecting dads XX and major respect to the laydees giving birth.

Wehey we have a boy. 8lbs 5ozs or 3.78kg basically the weight of a frame and coil shock to give you some context. No name agreed yet but mother and baby doing well.

🙂 Congratulations.

That's brill news mate. Congrats

Congratulations geetee !

Thanks guys. Was pretty stressful but all is well now.

Isaac is good, since if he's brainy you can call him Isaac, if he's cool you can call him Zak, and if he's a bad seed you can call him Ike. Sorted.

And congrats!

Has a wee boy last night at 22:55- sugars were low as he was a few weeks early but doing ok.
Called him Daniel cos we both agreed on that one! 6Ib 8.5 ounces.
Good luck to all the others out there.
Tired but happy.
Ps- already have one so was home at 2am, coupla drama with FIL then up at 6 with no 1 son. Sigh.

Get some sleep althepal and congrats. Northwind that's excellent thanks mate. Think you've just decided it for us. I wanted Reuben but I love the diminutives you've just come up with. Zak is cool. I wanted Zachary but mrs geetee would never allow it.

Isaac it is.

@althepal - congratulations.

I'm really looking forward to the grand kids, just not for a while hopefully. Mostly because I want my daughters to enjoy their lives free of that responsibility for a while and partly because I'm not ready for the title !

Congrats! We are on the way too, prob another ten hours tho!

Ah jeesus christ, someone listened to me. Wasn't prepared for that!

Congratulations Greg and Mrs. from the bunnyhops.

I love the name Reuben. Although as Martyn says above, we did discuss Bradley.
Isaac does seem to be very popular, number 35 on this list.
http://baby-names.familyeducation.com/popular-names/boys/ 🙂

Congratulations.
And you know that 'Five' or 'Soul' is the best name for a boy... 😉

Big hugs Bunnyhop 😀 I did lobby for Bradley but Ruth was not having a bit of it:

'I'm not naming our son after a bloody cyclist. It's bad enough being a bike widow without having our son named after one as well!'

Was the general gist of it.

bravo.

Congrats

Good work lad,
got to keep the strava times up now 😉

Woohooooo. Congrats!!! 😀

Congrats! Gti Junior presented himself the same way as I did, in an extended breech position, i.e. bum first with his legs folded up by his ears. Our Obstetrician was a very robust Scotsman who, when he discovered that he and Mrs Gti had dived many of the same sites in Scotland, decided to take a professional risk and gave us the choice: "Normal or caesarean? I'm off to have a curry, you have a chat about it and when I've finished we're going to get your baby out!"

Happily (I think God almost every day) his dimensional calculations were correct and Mrs Gti was able to deliver Junior, bum first, without too much trouble.

Daniel and Isaac......great names.

Many congrats and welcome to the club. Before you know it you'll be watching them play rugby and building them their first 26" wheel mountain bikes.

Congratulations to both.

jambalaya - Member

molgrips
The second kid is way harder I think. Say the first one takes up 75% of your time, you still have 25% left. When you have another kid taking up 75%, you have a problem. That never goes away...

This is 100% true

Gee thanks fella's (expecting 2nd in 2 weeks) 😕

congrats!!! 😀

coupla drama with FIL

You had an arguement? or did just have some whiskey.

Either way congrats and well done chaps.

Congratulations to all the new parents.

Congratulations to you all, its a wonderful time. Good names as well! My first is Daniel

Mr Benjamin's gave birth via the sunroof after 24hrs in labour! Baby Benjamin's 9.15lbs, he's massive. Overjoyed but a bit wrung out

just how much mess are they expecting to make which requires the wearing of wellies!

as stated elsewhere - don't look over the screen

I looked - it was quite a shock! 😯

My nephew is called Reuben,it did`nt go down well at school 😐

I actually meant congratulations on your happy event 😀

Congratulations all round.

Children are great. I love being a parent.

Congrats! Well done to the ladies involved.

I like Isaac, naming your child is really hard!

My boys are 'Rik' and 'stefan', we needed names that sound good in English and in Dutch as I am Dutch.

Rik was the first one in nursery able to spell his name, well before Alexander. I love his short name, he has no other names (apart from his surname of of course). Not come across another 'rik' or 'stefan' in any of schools I work in yet.

I think people do make judgements based on names, really important to get it right.

Simone

Baby Benjamin's 9.15lbs, he's massive

Thank the lord for c-sections.

Have you considered: "Nicolai" or "Helius" yet? 😉