Oh baby

[jethrien]

Last night, I dreamt I was pregnant. I was two or three months along, and Chuckro suggested that maybe I should start looking for an OB/GYN or start taking prenatal vitamins or something. I told him I'm sure it was fine, I didn't see any doctors or take any vitamins at all for the last baby, and it came out fine! Speaking of the last baby - did he remember what we did with it? I remembered we had managed to settle on names - Gabriel if it was a boy, Cowan if it was a girl. But I couldn't remember which it had turned out to be, or what we'd done with the baby afterwards. And it occured to me that maybe getting pregnant again two months after having the first one hadn't been the best idea ever.

Also, baseball was involved somehow.

I can't decide whether this dream means my subconcious thinks I want babies right now, or whether it thinks that babies are a terrible, terrible idea. But Chuckro says I can't have any more until I stop losing the ones I already had.

Also, he vetoes Gabriel as a name. Strangely enough, he didn't have any remarks on Cowan. (Cowan? Is that even a name? WTF, subconcious? Where do you even come up with this crap?)

Comments

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

I love it. I hereby bequeath all the weird baby dreams to you. I'm too old for that stuff anyway! Along with them, you can have the walking down the aisle toward the wrong groom dreams, and the onstage without knowing my lines dreams. The horrible dead bear on the highway repetitive dream I won't saddle you with.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The wedding dreams did pretty much disappear within a couple weeks after the wedding. Haven't had one since.

I did have one about being onstage in an opera, and only knowing a little bit of the aria I was supposed to sing.

Umm...I don't know what to do with the bear thing. Bear?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Cowan is a last name (there's a financial firm called Cowen & Company), or Rowan is a viable name...

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Do not name a child Rowan. Mr. Bean jokes for life.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

See, I don't think Mr. Bean will be relevant enough to our children's generation.

My objection to Gabriel is because of "Anything Goes", which will still be performed in high schools 10, 20, 50 years from now. "Blow, Gabriel, Blow". anyone?

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't fear, anyone who is quoting musicals from the 1930s will be in no position to make gay jokes at any one.

Cowan! What is best in life?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The problem is when the kid's high school actually performs the musical, and anyone connected to the performance or who has friends connected to the performance hears the song.

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about how it was pretty small odds that in those 4 years, they'd be doing that musical, at a school where the performance arts are popular enough to matter and the people who'd want to make fun of them are in the audience and then I realized two things. One: pretty much every good name has been in a movie or show at some point (I refuse to let Guys and Dolls ruin Nathan. .. or Sky), and two: I am putting way too much thought into analyzing a hypothetical dream baby's future life.

So, take that, Gay-briel, I'm ignoring you now.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

My high school did it. I think Chuckro's also did. Ivy did it at summer camp. I think the odds are pretty damn good that our kid might run into this play.

It's not having a name in a musical that ruins the name. It's having a song title telling you blow. Especially when the next song on the list is "All Night Long".

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

We did Anything Goes, you know--my freshman year.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

I've been in the pit orchestra for Anything Goes...twice. Once with my town's summer theater festival (1999) and once with the Georgetown Law school's theater group (2007). Anything's possible, especially Anything Goes. :)

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Well, of course baseball was involved:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex

[deltagrl.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's pretty crazy/awesome.

[feiran.livejournal.com]

I happen to like the name Gabriel. :)

[beastin.livejournal.com]

That is a totally awesome dream sequence, but I have to say... I also like the name Gabriel.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I actually really like the sound of the name Gabriel - but I don't think I could ever name my son that. It sounds pretty and girly, it has the sound "gay" in it, it's uncommon enough to be weird...I just feel like it would be similar to sending my seven year old out onto the playground with a target taped to his back. It's unfortunate that the opinions of other seven year olds is something I feel a need to consider, but my kid's already got a decent chance of being a bespectacled, clumsy, smart little nerdling with big hair. I don't need to add to the reasons to pick on him.

[beastin.livejournal.com]

Point taken. Should I have children, however, I think I will try to keep them out of public school systems rather than try to make them more appealing to the rest of the little savages.