Oh, decisions!

So, we've settled on names for girl or boy. That much is great.

With that said, I will not list them here. For selfish reasons, naturally. I enjoy creative names and would not want them to become common. It sounds crazy, but I feel it is a rational fear. If you are directly interested, you're welcome to call or email me directly and I will inform you accordingly. However, this blog is far too public (even if there really aren't any people out there interested in my boring day-to-day pregnancy.)

Josh leaves in exactly one week. He will be gone until Thanksgiving. Hopefully at that time we can get another ultrasound to determine the sex so he can be there. He says knowing the sex will help him feel close and bond with the baby even while he is away since he is missing much of the prenatal development. He will come home again for Christmas and New Year's day. This unfortunately will extend his training until June. If I give birth in April, that's a lot of diapers and mid-sleep feedings all on my own. :/

So, since he is leaving and I will be responsible for carrying out our communicated will for the child and birth, we are trying to iron out all the wrinkles before he leaves (which is why at 9 weeks our nursery was set up, and why by 14 weeks, we have both names picked out and settled.)
Today, I've been looking up a lot of information on whether or not we should circumcise if we have a boy. I have decided I do not want to circumcise if we have a boy (mostly.) since I feel it is the child's decision rather than my own, and that most male animals in nature have sheaths on their penises. Why should I change this for my son? It doesn't seem to hurt other animals in the natural world, and I see no reason to force it upon my son. As far as I've read, most reasons for later-in-life circumcision are due to hygiene problems or religious decisions, both should be my son's responsibility.
With that said, Josh likes the fact that a circumcised penis is "normal" and "cleaner"-- both things I can completely understand. We've talked about this once before, but it's our topic of the night tonight and should be interesting. I've been reading A LOT about it this evening.

I mean, we've decided in almost all other aspects of this pregnancy and birth that natural is better... such as birthing through a midwife, natural birth without pain meds, breast-feeding.... why change now?

With that said, I was working on a load of homework tonight and realized just how much work I really need to put into my own discipline levels. Buckling down, we are! It's been a lazy day. Unfortunately, I got Josh sick. I had what I believed to be a HORRIBLE sinus infection, but now Josh is definitely NOT feeling well at all. Same symptoms, only he can actually take medicine to help, which is helping him some it seems.

Well, I suppose I should settle in with my bowl of ice cream for the night and relax! I'll try to work on photo uploads soon, whenever I figure out how.