One more month

Vintage Birth Control Ad


My last month of birth control started yesterday.  We have originally planned on throwing it away this up coming December and officially starting to try for babies, but I really feel that it is going to be a very long road and have changed my mind.  So it just so happens that there are no more refills left on my bc prescription this month so I decided just to go with the "flow" and not to go to the gyno to get any more after this.  I really just want to see if I can even have a period without bc.  Last time I was off for a year and did not ovulate once.  So we have decided to give it til December, then when I have a gyno appointment I can tell her that I have been off for 6 months and haven't ovulated. Rather than having nothing to say other than we want to start trying.   So we will be using other forms of bc til December and just see how it goes with my cycle.

We picked December as the official "start date" because it is a safe enough distance to finishing our PhD's.   We think we will be done late summer 2013... so if the heavens open up and I get pregnant the first time, we will be done with school by the time baby is ready to be here.  I really dont think this will happen, but we want to give it the old college try before we move onto adoption.


Baby Name of the Month: Neville

So it has been a while since my last post... basically because school is busy.  It is that time of the month though.. and I dont mean menstration.. I mean Baby name of the Month.  today's name is








Neville 


Because of a certain book, Neville has a very british old world feel to the name, but it is actually french in origin. 


Ok I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan…. and yes, that is what is most appealing about this name, its associations with a hero coming into his own.


Neville Longbottom sort of bummbles through his first years of school and is somtimes a source of humor.. but he remains loyal and brave.  He comes into his own later in the series and plays a large part in saving the world.  He is truly a chosen one and a young handsome hero.  Which only draws me more to the name. 


As for the name itself, I have a love for brit sounding names and love the uniqueness (not chart topper) yet familiarity of the name. He has never charted in the US top 1000 names even after all the books and movies about him, which makes him even more appealing.  One major thing I love about Neville is that he is nickname proof, as mentioned before, I prefer names that stand alone and dont have any traditional nicknames.  I also think it could be used to honor family in my case… Neva is my grandmother’s name and one of my middle names.. so I think a boy named Neville could be a family link.. so it has a little bit more meaning than just a fantasy book. … 


Overall I love Neville, but is it too much to name a child after a HP character?