WWVixen-Good luck and well wishes for the birth of your baby!!!!
I will be thinking of you, and hoping that you and the baby are doing well this weekend. When you are feeling up to it, stop by and let us know how you are.
barbygirl-yes, it is a big estimation. The estimation comes from a few different things, really-the past estimations and growth rates from my other two children, the ultrasound from 2 weeks ago of estimated weight AND frame (head circumference, etc.), and also how large I am actually measuring.
I don't know why it is, really...some gestational diabetics end up with normal sized babies...and others, well, we just make BIG babes.
While we are on the subject of names...the names of my two kids have meaning as well, which is why I am really scrambling and worrying about this little guy's name.
Our daughter is named Jasmine Natane (pronounced Na-TAWN-ee). We chose her name, because my husband is a really big music fan, and at the time, he was listening a LOT to an album by Type O Negative-and they did a cover of the old 70's song "Summer Breeze". Part of the lyrics, for those who don't know the song...goes "Summer Breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine of my mind." That album always reminded me of my husband and when we first were dating, so the name stuck.
My husband is half Native American (Sioux), and her middle name is a Native American word meaning "daughter".
With our son, he didn't want to show us his gender during numerous ultrasounds. I didn't find out his sex actually, until a couple weeks before his birth during one of the last size checks. The whole time DH "assumed" it was a boy, because that is what he was hoping for. He called my tummy "THOR" all of the time as a joke, because it was MANLY.
Thor, in Norse mythology, is the god of thunder. When we found out the sex of the baby I was scrambling for a name. I looked and looked everywhere, and at the very last minute found the name "Raiden" which is the god of thunder in Japanese mythology. So, in a sense, his name came from the silly nickname DH gave my tummy.
His middle name is Acheta (pronounced Uh-KAY-tuh) and it is a Native American name for warrior...it was a NA name like we gave our daughter, and it also sounded good with the first name.