| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Jan 2006 12:04 p.m. PST |
I have begat a child… due date July 16th. We are pondering different names. If its a boy it has to be given the names 'James Bede' [eldest son of the eldest son thing, going back at least 5 generations] although with something else bolted on the front. Joshua is favourite now I think. If its a girl its a bit more open. Our [nearly] 7-yr old Lydia Niamh suggests 'Pinnochio' for a boy, or for a girl 'Panther', 'Nicaea' or 'Sarah'. I like 'Talitha', wife doesn't, also 'Galilee' 'Nisha' or 'Llio' as 2nd names. We both like 'Emma' even though I have a cousin of the same name (who I never see) Any thoughts? |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Jan 2006 12:06 p.m. PST |
Oh and 'Grace' is popular, in fact Bec said 'Lets call her 'Grace Ann Cooper' after both my grandmothers, I said 'No, it sounds like a firm of solicitors.' |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 06 Jan 2006 12:07 p.m. PST |
Mini for a girl perhaps? – sorry, couldn't resist the joke, I'll get my coat…. Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS :-) |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Jan 2006 12:17 p.m. PST |
Lydia is already known as 'Mini Cooper' by her doting great-grandfather, so thats out… |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 06 Jan 2006 12:27 p.m. PST |
How about Cuchi Cuchi Coo(per)? |
| Brian98 | 06 Jan 2006 12:56 p.m. PST |
I always liked Abigail. Congratulations. |
| Andrew May1 | 06 Jan 2006 1:09 p.m. PST |
How about TheSecondChildofCooperSteve? Congratulations Mate! 
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| Rattlehead | 06 Jan 2006 1:10 p.m. PST |
Congratulations! That's awesome to hear! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Jan 2006 1:32 p.m. PST |
Oh dear Bill… I like Abigail. I like a big ale, but that's another story. Probably not wise as Abigail was a lass I used to fancy before I started going out with the wife… I'd love to know what weird recess of the brain my daughter keeps conjuring these names from… 'Panther' is actually pretty cool, I think if we were (eg) Black Americans we might be able to carry it off, but… We had about 4 miscarriages before Lyd, who has vacterl association, and then another after, the latter being when Lyd was old enough to get upset and anxious about Mummy being carried off to hospital (The mother of a little girl a church had dropped dead-literally- about the same time and it played on her mind.) Lyd at 6 has had to deal with issues of mortality way beyond the average kiddie for her years, she keeps cheerfully announcing 'This was nearly your first child, because you thought I was going to DIE!'. I'm sure she'll be a Goth when sh's older.
After the last miscarriage- all very early- they told us that there could be a connection between the recurrent miscarriages and Bec's factor C deficiency- ie tiny blood clots could have been destroying the embryos. So now she injects herself with fragmin every morning! I'm glad I'm a man! |
| Norscaman | 06 Jan 2006 1:49 p.m. PST |
Not to quote the elder Dr. Jones, but we named our dog Cooper! As far as the girl, I think that Elizabeth Cooper is destined to be an author… CONGRATS! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 06 Jan 2006 2:00 p.m. PST |
My older sister is Elizabeth Cooper… so that's out…
I met a dog in the states called Cooper. Doubt it was the same one though. Cooper is the 17th most common surname in the UK, and you would be amazed the number of names that don't go with it! When we were in the intensive care unit with Lyd, the couple in the incubators opposite were called Payne. Given they had twin girls, I asked if they had any names left for a 3rd child. Mother said 'oh, my family's complete, but if I had a boy I'd like to call him Kane!' "Kane Payne?" I said. "Ohhhh…I never thought of that!" To quote Homer, 'Doh!' |
| The Gonk | 06 Jan 2006 2:27 p.m. PST |
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| mweaver | 06 Jan 2006 3:13 p.m. PST |
Congratulations! (I didn't know we had a birth announcements board). |
| Gaijin79 | 06 Jan 2006 3:16 p.m. PST |
Will you be allowed to give out cigars, or is that against the rules now? |
| Neotacha | 06 Jan 2006 3:22 p.m. PST |
Congratulations, and good luck on the pregnancy! I hope all goes well for mother and baby, and big sister does NOT go all Goth in her teens. (Unless that's what you want.) So what if you have relatives with names you like? Use 'em anyway. |
 Gungnir  | 06 Jan 2006 3:26 p.m. PST |
No suggestions, but my congratulations! I hope you wil enjoy the coming time. |
| zippyfusenet | 06 Jan 2006 6:45 p.m. PST |
Congratulations Steve, and my respects to your lady wife. Like you, I'm glad I'm a man. It's so much simpler. |
| nycjadie | 07 Jan 2006 5:04 a.m. PST |
Is this the third head? Congratulations! |
| Goldwyrm | 07 Jan 2006 7:20 a.m. PST |
Congratulations!! I see that "Mini" was already suggested so I'm tapped out on names. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 07 Jan 2006 12:52 p.m. PST |
Thankyou for all the kind comments. Neotacha- No, I don't object to junior going Goth, if she ever tried to do it to shock Dad it wouldn't work… I used to sculpt for ALCHEMY which experience pretty well eroded any capacity to be shocked, which may explain why I've gravitated so contentedly to hostel work as a day job. Incidentally some friends of ours went to a service at the arty UK Christian festival GREENBELT run by a Goth vicar… it started quite promisingly with the chap exlaining how he went goth after a close friend died in his teens… then it turned into a bog-standard High Anglican mass that went on for three hours, the only apparent goth component being the altar piece of a coffin and a noose. Gungnir- After going through the mill with Lyd- who in addition to multiple internal problems nearly died at 5 weeks and we were warned she was at severe risk of brain damage, blessedly not the case- I did one of those 'calculate your stress level tests' and went clean off the scale, implying major risk of breakdown- we would absolutely love to have a 100% healthy birth which we can just take home and enjoy… Don't think we'd see much of Son of Steve anyway, looks like Lydia will do all the mothering necessary! |
| Tom Bryant | 07 Jan 2006 9:30 p.m. PST |
Steve, how about for a son Winston, Arthur, or Horatio. For a daughter why not Victoria, gwenivere (SP?), or for a truly classical name Boudicca. Seriously My prayers and best wishes go to you, your lovely wife and family. May everything go smoothly for you all and your new bundle of joy. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 08 Jan 2006 12:34 p.m. PST |
Hmmm… Arthur's not bad but I suspect we'll go for something Hebrew for a boy. Horatio is right out. I can just see Bro-in-Law's face, and him saying "Horatio Fellatio?" And I'm not greatly enamoured of either Churchill or Nelson. Mother-in-law had a dream where it was a boy called William (after her father) not a bad idea although it would also be 'after' Willam Tyndale… I do like Jennifer (Guinivere) but doubt She will go for it… I like Gaelic and Welsh names, I'd possibly go for Llio (Welsh for Linnet) for a second name but She claims she can' pronounce it. |
| CooperSteveatWork | 11 Jan 2006 5:16 a.m. PST |
13 week Scan this morning. Junior looks quite cute, very wriggly… and no obvious signs of anything missing! |
| zippyfusenet | 11 Jan 2006 11:22 a.m. PST |
CooperSteve: I suspect we'll go for something Hebrew for a boy. Phineas Ba'asha Cooper? Melchizedek Ishba'al Cooper? Elimelech Jerubbabel Cooper? I'm sure you'll be wise enough to name your son with discretion, Steve. A man needs a mighty bushy beard to support some of those names. It's too much of a burden for a little boy. They don't name kids the way they used to. And there's a reason. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 11 Jan 2006 12:40 p.m. PST |
Well, no I wasn't planning on Shear-Jashub, Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz, Bigthah or Darkon. I think Og had a rough deal in the name stakes too… |
| CooperSteveatWork | 13 Jan 2006 5:29 a.m. PST |
Apparrently at 13 weeks Junior can hear, so big sister is now going to add incessant chat to the continual tummy rubbing… |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 18 Jan 2006 10:37 a.m. PST |
And today it started making itself felt! |
| Sane Max | 26 Jan 2006 4:54 a.m. PST |
I would go with PraiseGod Barbonne, (Barebones of the Barebones Parliament) who named his firstborn son 'IfChristHadNotDiedForOurSinsWeWouldBeAllDamned' Barbonne. (iirc) Its catchy, unusual and is guranteed to ensure the child grows up with a keen interest in Religion. Amusingly, he changed his name to something shorter and became a major league Capitalist Bloodsucker under the Hanoverians. Pat |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 26 Jan 2006 2:46 p.m. PST |
Yup. Nicholas Barbon. He invented fire insurance. Think it was originally 'IfChristHadstNotDiedForTheeThouWouldstBeDamned' Since he changed it can't think his interest in religion was that keen… Lydia was a good NT name but couldn't resist a good pagan name like Niamh for the 2nd name… I like Freya but think I'll stick with something Biblical. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 03 Feb 2006 2:39 a.m. PST |
It kicked me last night! My foetus kicked my hand! Oh joy! Our daughter is 7 today too! Great cause for celebration given her knife-edge survival in infancy… Now our main worry is they might take the motability car off us because she's too well… |
| CooperSteveatWork | 04 Feb 2006 4:54 a.m. PST |
Wife has started announcing she likes 'Molly' and 'Phoebe' I'm saying, 'Whatever, because it's a boy, but Molly Cooper? Phoebe Cooper? I think not.' To which she says, 'Cooper's a rubbish, common name, it doesn't go with ANYTHING, I wish I'd stayed Haddon…' How the heck can someone say 'You can't call it Galilee or Talitha, they're rubbish' and go for Fee-Bee? |
| CooperSteveatWork | 10 Feb 2006 10:04 a.m. PST |
We had days of angst because she didn't feel it kick… then I suggested she look in the Big Pregnancy Book and it said that you aren't even supposed to be able to feel them at 17 weeks. Then she put on tighter trousers and junior was felt in earnest… |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 14 Feb 2006 3:48 p.m. PST |
Still wriggling like a good'un! |
| CooperSteveatWork | 18 Feb 2006 7:38 a.m. PST |
Next scan on Wednesday… and we find out if its a boy or a girl! We're taking our daughter too, its the first scan she'll have seen… |
| CooperSteveatWork | 22 Feb 2006 5:09 a.m. PST |
20 week scan- boy! Daughter very disappointed… |
| CooperSteveatWork | 23 Feb 2006 9:36 a.m. PST |
Incidentally the modern scans are amazing. They have a sort of x-ray effect so you can see the limb bones, skull, ribs etc, they can home in on the limb bones to measure them precisely…
Junior seems to have perked up about the baby brother issue… |
| CooperSteveatWork | 15 Apr 2006 9:23 a.m. PST |
Daughter's cardiologist gave us a scan, just as a precaution… basically an excuse to play with a super-duper scanning machine.
The heart is indeed fine, it was the first time I've seen a scanned heart that looks like a heart as opposed to a pulsating grey bit…
Then she had a more general look about, and let's just say when the Almighty handed out the masculine accoutrements, Junior was right at the front of the queue… Shame it's not my genes, or indeed my side of the family…. it last surfaced in the early 1970s when brother-in-law drew every maternity nurse in Coventry to his crib side, where the official diagnosis was that he would 'make some girl very happy'. |
| CooperSteveatWork | 13 May 2006 8:04 a.m. PST |
'William' would also be for William Thorne, first Labour MP from working class origins, pioneer of the 38 hour week, bosom chum of Marx and Engels, and my wife's ever-so-great uncle… But that will wait for any no.2 son that happens along… |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 24 May 2006 10:17 a.m. PST |
Unexprectedly we got a '4-d' photo at today's scan. It's liking having a black+white pic of our unborn's face… we agree it's quite eerie- feels like 'cheating'! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 26 May 2006 1:56 p.m. PST |
Hairy  too. Looks much like Daddy's baby pics from the 70s |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 26 May 2006 1:56 p.m. PST |
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| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 09 Jun 2006 1:30 p.m. PST |
Little dear is still breech! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 12 Jun 2006 5:00 a.m. PST |
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| CooperSteveatWork | 19 Jun 2006 4:37 a.m. PST |
He appeared to turn Friday night. Hurray! |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 27 Jun 2006 1:55 p.m. PST |
We got stuck in a lift at Great Ormond Street the other day. I had visions of how much fun it would be if she went into labour… |
| CooperSteveatWork | 03 Jul 2006 8:10 a.m. PST |
We went out for a curry Saturday night. My wife didn't give birth, but I felt as if I was later! |
| CooperSteveatWork | 08 Jul 2006 7:02 a.m. PST |
Another curry. No joy. He appears to grow visibly every day now, Bec has more than doubled her own depth with him and is very fed up… the midwife assessed him a few days ago as being engaged up to his eyebrows and 'he's a big boy, isn't he?' My wife said he must be a ten-pounder, and the midwife just sed. |
| CooperSteveatWork | 08 Jul 2006 7:02 a.m. PST |
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| Old Slow Trot | 09 Jul 2006 1:57 p.m. PST |
David or Robert sounds like a good boy's name,or if a girl,wonder how Linda or Elizabeth would fit her. Best wishes to you and your family,Coop. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 13 Jul 2006 11:54 a.m. PST |
We do like David but that's bro-in-law's name and he'd be forever known as 'Little Dave'. Not keen on Robert. Funnily enough my Grandfather was always known as 'Bert' even though his name was James Bede, no idea why. And my other grandpa was Herbert! Elizabeth is my older sister, 'Linda Cooper' is a bit 'up-and-dow-un' among other reasons… |
