Oddness

[johnny9fingers]

Firstly I've unlocked this entry for any on my f-list to see.

johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/206502.html

Secondly....

And in my dream my ancestors came to me and said that the child would be a daughter and I should name it for Parvati or one of her avatars.

Lalita.

So, if it's a girl child we will call it Lalita.

If it is a boy child Henry has the diminutive Harry and Hal, Ronald for my father and great-grandfather. Havelock is also a familial forename, but HRH may be pushing it a bit. Henry Ronald Gregson Barnes: four (or is it five?) generations from the House of Lords. Gregson comes from SWMBO's side.

All in all I'm beginning to hope it will be a girl child.

Comments

[fountaingirl.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS! (BTW, it's always daunting news, no matter what your age, no matter your past, and no matter whether/no it was planned -- it can be happy and daunting, but it's *always* a bit scary.(

[e4q.livejournal.com]

well, how lovely!

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

Congratulations - and good health to you all!

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Thank you all for your good wishes.

However Madame is still in the first trimester, which is always fraught with danger: added to which we're both pretty old (SWMBO is forty and I'm close to fifty) which adds to the concerns.

We wouldn't have gone 'public' with this information except we had told family members, and some of them have been less than discreet with this information: so despite the obvious dangers of an early miscarriage, were have decided that keeping such news entirely to family is inappropriate.