gender reveal and a name

On friday we had our anatomy scan. The sonographer was really great and explained everything to us as she was doing it. She did all the measurements first before getting to the gender. The baby wasn't being completely corporative and kept wiggling away during measurements. Everything seemed good from her perspective. She did say that the our Dr will most likely have us come in for another scan because the way the baby was laying she couldn't get a good view of all four chambers of the heart. We did not get any pictures of his profile. She said if we come back she will get some better pictures for us.

So then the fun part. She asked us what we wanted. I told her I would be happy either way, but was hoping for a boy. After a couple minutes she said, " I think those are boy parts". She looked from a different position and it defiantly was a boy. She said if it turned out to be a girl to make sure to come and tell her because she needed to quit her job.  :) We are really excited to be having a boy. We went straight Pottery barn kids and Gymboree to buy a few things. Eric handed me a handful of things at gymboree before I even went through one wrack of clothes. This kid is bound to have a clothing and shoe obsession like his mommy and daddy.

baby dancing on my bladder

Besides actually being able to buy gender specific things I was really looking forward to giving our little guy a name. We had two boy names picked out (Austin and Channing) and one girl name. 

We had a pretty difficult time picking out the name at first! I thought we were never going to agree on one! I love unique names! My name is fairly unique and I loved never having to share a name with someone else in my school or work. Eric, on the other hand, likes unique but our unique names were not sitting well with the other.

We both pretty much agreed on Austin from the beginning. It is a name that I have always loved and since Eric grew up in Austin he had an immediate love for the name as well. I think there were several days I spent looking at names on line. Going one page after another finding nothing. Let me just tell you  how annoying these name sites are. There are so many names like Abadukrahman that would never be an option. I could not get them out the search no matter how I searched. Or when you click on unique names. To me a name does not constitute a unique title just because you change the spelling ( allison to alyson or kennedy to kenneedie). Seriously, are you kidding me! I think on about the 100th time of going through names I came across Channing. Let me tell you, yes I am a Channing Tatum fan. Bottom line he is hott and I don't know to many women that think other wise. Hearing his name I was never like, " omg, I love that name I am so going to name my kid that". I have no clue why this day the name set well with me. I told Eric about the name. He liked it but wasn't in love with it. Eric is really into the meaning of names so I looked up the meaning. Apparently it has two meanings, a church official and little wolf. Once I saw little wolf I new Eric would now fall in love with the name. I casually told him the meaning of Channing. My scheming paid of and he magically loved the name as well. 

Even though we had two boy names picked out I think we both felt that if we had a boy his name would be Channing. If we have another son we will name him Austin. So we decided on a first name. Deciding on a middle name was complete hell for me. Nothing was sitting well.

Alexander

William 

both were middle names at one point, but it just didn't sit well with my heart. We had picked a few others, but they only lasted a matter of seconds before I again changed my mind.

Middle names I liked Eric didn't and visa versa. I liked

Weston and Tyler

he was very blah about the names.

He liked Gunner and some other name that I forgot as soon as he said it.

I was blah about using them for middle names. 

We both liked Phoenix but immediately decided it sounded way to hippy. 

Then about three weeks ago a miracle happened. I mentioned a name that I thought he would turn down immediately. He actually said he really liked that name. WOOHOO!! We picked a middle name that actually set well with me. That I could see our baby being. This was a huge relief for Eric. I think he was getting a little irritated with my non-commitment to a middle name.  

So we will be naming our little boy.

Channing Hunter Kerr 

I  hope you all love this name as much as we do. And I sooo

 just realized we used two gender neutral names. Weird!  

baby announcement

I have spent weeks and weeks trying to come up with a creative way to announce our Pregnancy to those we had not told yet. I found several cute ideas on Pinterest, but didn't want to just copy the idea. I ended up using a phrase I found on Pinterest but changed the idea up some.

I really wanted to include something with my furry baby. I had several ideas I played around with but Toby just wasn't in the picture taking mood. I finally got him to just lay down and this is ended up being our favorite. :) thanks for the booties Katelyn!!!

We also had our second Dr's apt today. I was really excited to hear the babies heart beat (which sounded great) and we also received another ultrasound. It is pretty amazing how much a baby changes in just a short amount of time. He (we think it's a boy) no longer looks like an alien baby.

I also found out that I am a carrier of Group B Strep (GBS). I was told that 30% of women are carriers and as long as I receive the antibiotic when I go into labor everything should be ok. I am not too sure how I feel about this seeing how we have family experience with GBS that didn't go so great. I am   doing my best to keep a positive attitude and not worry and stress over it.  Not like that will do me any good anyway.

First Ultrasound....9 weeks

The day finally arrived. The day I had been waiting for. And now that it was here, I was dreading it. I got into my usual nervous phase, where I don't talk, ignore anything anyone is saying to me and just want to barf...all day. We were leaving at 2:00 to head to the Dr's and I swear the morning dragged on and on and on. When we finally got into the car, it took everything I had in me not to vomit all over. I was so freaking nervous!!!!


So we get to the Dr's check in and wait. And wait some more. And yes, wait even longer! I know we didn't wait very long, but to me it felt like forever. I was nervous that there would either be twins ( thanks to my mom and her string test) or there would be nothing. I was ready for the worst. I was ready for an empty uterus and that no baby alien lived inside of me. I was ready to find out I had some rare disease that produced pregnancy hormones, but no baby is created. I was prepared to find out that my uterus wasn't actually a uterus... it was just an empty basketball court or something crazy like that. But then I saw it. I saw this black empty space and a wiggly alien looking baby. I immediately said, " aww look its moving its little arms and legs". It sounds so lame to me that those were my first words about our baby on the screen. Like I was looking at a sweet little puppy or something. The ultra sound tech then showed me the heart beat on the screen. She told me I wouldn't be able to hear it today that she wouldn't be using a doppler to calculate the bpm (which was 164). LAME!!! I was looking forward to the chance of hearing the heart beat, but at least I could see the little bean moving around. The tech did a few measurements and snapped some pictures. She said the baby was measuring 9 weeks 2 days which would put me right on track of my due date, Feb. 15th 2013.  She said everything looked really good and they would do another ultrasound at 20 weeks. Ugh!!! 20 weeks seems way to long to me. I'm hoping I will get another before then. I would like to see the change the baby goes through. If not I guess I will live. :)