Brandi G. Parenting, Pregnancy, Raising Boys

Our Baby, The Cauliflower

Another week, another fruit (or vegetable). This week the My Pregnancy App filled me in that our growing sprout is officially a head of cauliflower. 

Something new I just noticed about this app is that it gives me a “days to go” count, right now I am at eighty nine days to go. Which confuses me a bit because the countdown I put up on here tells me I only have two months left. Oye, almost ninety more days… I can’t wait to hold this little boy in my arms and smooch his cheeks. I’m also having trouble waiting for us to jointly agree on a name. For Baby J we each made a list of names, compared and chose the one that we both had and liked. This time our name choices seem much more diverse so I don’t see our lists having many similarities.

As for the little head of cauliflower, he is right around 14 1/2 inches long and about 2lbs. That’s based on the average height and weight for babies around twenty seven weeks.

Major developments around this time include:

  • Waking up and sleeping at regular intervals.
  • More brain tissue development.
  • Opening and closing of eyes.
  • Maturing lungs, still immature for now, which could function (with a lot of help) if the baby were to be born this early.

That last development takes a huge weight off of my chest. You never know what can happen and having a 2lb baby who can hardly breathe isn’t something that anyone wants. However, knowing that this baby could officially stand a chance in that circumstance is nice.

While I wont be sharing the baby’s name once it’s official I suppose there is no harm in sharing some of the ideas floating around in my head. I like the kind of names that people don’t hear too often, which lead me to a list of:

  • Easton
  • Emerson
  • Cohen
  • Holden
  • Grayson
  • Graham
  • Carson

Time is flying by and even though we have plenty of time I can’t help but feel rushed to choose a name for this baby. Everyone keeps asking what his name will be and I feel weird not having an answer. The fact of the matter is, this is a name that our son will have to live with for his entire life. I don’t want to hurry up and choose something just so I can stop calling him the nameless baby…I want it to be the right name.

Regardless, nameless baby #3 is a cauliflower and I am a mom with some serious heartburn and achy hips.

Thanks for reading!!