Duh? Only Tinky Winky. Not the others!
Thank you. I like Brigid. 
Mouse_Spouse likes Heather. Our last name is S. so we’re avoiding vowels.
“How about Heather Ivy S.?”
“HIS? No way.”
“Brigid Abby S.”
“BAS. No.”
“Heather Brigid S.?”
“HBS. Nah.”
“That doesn’t stand for anything!”
“Hanks Buffered Saline.”
:dubious:
“Sorry, honey. Bio-moment. Its a reagent.”
I thought that your mom wearing pants at her wedding made you gay. Spouse wore a kilt. Guess we’ll see what happens. 
Congratulations on your healthy, beautiful girl-mouseling! Don’t worry about the pink/princess/pony stuff- many, many girls love to play in the mud. I wanted to be a sword-fighting princess who killed dragons, and I played full-contact sports in the mud.
I’m sort of hoping for a girl, myself, but it’ll be months until we’ll have our gender-predicting ultrasound.
Congratulations again!
I suggest Blandina (patron saint of those falsely accused of cannibalism), or maybe Skylar?
Good luck to you and your baby!
As for Blandina, I thought you were joking! :eek:
Let’s see: Morrigan Blandina Durga S. A name that says “Don’t mess with me!”
Balb C. Maven?
Just think of it as a science experiment. Like raising a mouse, but with less dissection. 
Congrats on the healthy baby.
I say don’t beat yourself up over a little disappointment right now. The very first second you lay eyes on the little mouse once she’s earthside it will cease to matter because your brain will be blown with how wonderfully perfect she is. Honest.
Girly girl? My 3yr old daughter is obsessed with bugs, spiders, “big digging machines”, and dinosaurs right now. Yes, she wears dresses, but she also told me about her red motorcycle and matching helmet that she rides to work. It goes really fast. Girls are cool.
Just how does one buffer a saline solution anyway?
Sorry, I’m bad at names and have no children. But buffers, that’s something I know a little bit about.
Well, at least for the board the littlest mouse must be called Mini Mouse!
You think that’s bad? My husband’s and my last name is Kew. If we have a kid it’s going to be near impossible to find a name that doesn’t end up sounding like some phrase.
And Pha is right out.
Drusilla?
The ads say something about undoing circumcision damage. Yeah, you’ve got your hands full with Miss Mouseling, that’s for sure.
No dissection? Drat!
Fay Veronica Brigid Maven?
My little F1?
You can’t do much worse than your mom did, and you seem to have turned out OK.
Naming mistakes I’m trying to avoid:
Give a common name, but with an unusual spelling. Thanks, Ma. :rolleyes:
No androgynous names. Mother: Bobbi. Father: Kerry. Brother: Glynn.
No “K’s”! Me: Kim Aunts: Karen, Kristy Father: Kerry Cousins: Kelsey, Ken, Kathy.
YAY! Congratulations!
From a girl who grew up with the initials LES I commend you for thinking ahead about your child’s name. Now my initials are LEZ, but thankfully I don’t hang out with high schoolers anymore. However, the last inital rules out ever using a name that starts with E. Unfortunately for my husband, I will not waver! (One of his favorite girl names is Elizabeth.)
I didn’t realize until it was too late that my daughter’s intials are HO, if you leave out her middle name. Fortunately people are too busy calling her Hannah Banana to think of it. We figured Hannah Banana would be a shiny object to attract the attention of the sort of morons who call people names and we’ve been right so far.
First of all, congratulations - may the baby be born healthy, at a good time.
As for her being a girl, I have four words of advice: EMBRACE IT, ENJOY IT. Nothing against my boys (I have 3 of each) but the clothes that are produced for baby/toddlers girls are several orders of magnitude cuter than anything yet produced for boys. Yes, they are “girly-girl”…flowers, ladybugs, strawberries, lots of ruffles, pink pink pink…that’s not at all a bad thing, even if, as a little girl, you weren’t into Barbies. When they’re little, you want cute, and that’s CUTE.
When she grows a little bigger, don’t think of toys and games in terms of gender, just find something that looks fun.
Yay for healthy baby girls!
I’ve got one of each; The Boy, who is 16, and likes cars and loud stereos and dogs and cats and bunnies and flowers, and who has just pierced his lip (against my wishes - it looks ridiculous), and the mini-Marli, who is 8, and likes basketball and stuffed animals and Naruto and kitties and Vikings, and who is already growing boobs (against my wishes - stupid puberty).
Some told me girls were easier to raise than boys, others told me boys were easier than girls. What I found out was that they’re both challenging in different ways.
Although I do agree with cmkeller that baby girl clothes are way cuter than baby boy clothes.
Girl clothes are cuter all the way through. Beyond babyhood boy clothes only seem to come in black, brown, dark green, dark blue and, for some reason, orange.
Think about the most likely diminutives and nicknames, too. (And rhymes.) My mother’s name is Ruth and she hates being called “Ruthie”, so she refused to name me Grace to save me having to answer to “Gracie”. My given name is already a diminutive and the abbreviations of it aren’t annoying.
Oh, and Congratulations!!!
Gillian is a fantastic, brilliant, absolutely splendid name for a girl. Just so you know. whistles innocently
(Emily’s pretty, or Jessica or Rebecca…)