BBB Baby Blog

Yesterday Iritana and I were in the hospital to find out why she was having tummy pains all through the day... (all checks indicated she and the baby were healthy thankfully) As we were sitting in the waiting room waiting for our names to be called Iritana grabed my hand and pushed it against the lower part of her tummy; "I felt the baby kick" she said! Just as my fingers touched her skin ... I could CLEARLY feel the baby give me a high five!!! HOW WICKED WAS THAT, the first time I felt the baby myself!!! Whoop Whoop!!! so exciting :) It is all getting so real now, we are both over the moon happy! Not too much longer for us to get the 19 week scan (this Thrusday) and then we will most probably find out if it is to be a boy or a girl!!! Wheeeeee exciting times!!! :) Love Tana & Bo

Kia Ora e te whanau, pehea ana koutou... we really are getting closer to D-Day... so I thought that we would kill half an hour going over potential names. After rambling through my entire family tree - I think that we have decided that our little bubba will have a Maori first name. Tracing through my ancestors, I came up with a few names... incredibly un-pronouncable to Mr Boyard Engels! I started delving a little deeper into my fathers tribe... the names got even trickier for him to say - lets say we have almost decided on a boys name... and probably a great name for a girl. So I thought, if anyone had suggestions - Bo, thought it would be too cruel to name to baby after him. I have always thought that I knew what I wanted to name my little girl, then again if the father cant pronounce the name... we might just have to re-think it. It turned into a great laugh session thinking of names... its far away, but we are definately trying to check of a few things on that huge list! I have...

Had an appointment with the midwife today... 30 min drive later! A strong healthy heart beat, she could actually feel the baby inside my tummy! She was able to push in the right place and I could feel it too... how amazing is that? And what? I could hear the baby kick, and a lot (I might add)... heres waiting until I will be able to feel that. 1 hour worth of paper work later - I have a million more blood, swabs and tests to undergo at the pathology clinic, all routine of course. I now have a GP, Obstetrician, Midwife and Midwife team all keen to take care of baby and I... how lucky? We are going into week 16 and on Friday July 3rd, we have booked our next anatomy scan to tell what the sex of the baby is. This time it will be at a private hospital, and we will be able to get a cd of all the pictures, instead of a scummy print out. From there, with 99% accuracy... we should be able to tell the sex of our baby! If you believe in 'old wives' tales then continue to believe we ...

What it is going to be?!? A few more weeks and we can do the scan that will tell us if we can expect a boy or a girl. We have just done some "old wives tail" tests and guess what... it is going to be a boy!!! Behold You have a 69% chance of having a boy. And you have a 30% chance of having a girl. And Here's Why... You are carrying the extra weight around the hips and bottom, so it's a girl. The hair on your legs is growing faster during pregnancy, so it's a boy . Boys are carried low. You are going to have a boy . Sleeping in a bed with your pillow to the south indicates that you will be having a girl. Your feet are colder than they were before pregnancy. You are having a boy . You refuse to eat the heel of a loaf of bread. You are having a girl. Dad-to-be is gaining weight right along with Mom-to-be, which means that you'll have a boy . The maternal grandmother has gray hair, so a boy will be born. You didn't have morning sickness early in pregna...