「ℴphelia → ωilkes」

It's difficult to believe that I have already gone through six months of pregnancy. Everything has happened so fast that I'm not even quite sure yet that I'm ready to become a mother, but everything is sneaking up so quickly with little regard for that. I'll have to learn fast, won't I?

She needs a name still. I've been trying to test out names for the past couple of months, with little progress or success. Every time I come up with a name I like, within a couple of days it feels like it's no longer right. It's so difficult to name someone who I've never even met. And all of these Russian names his mother is suggesting are atrocious--who would hate their daughter enough to name them Oksana---and Natayla is lovely, but I don't want my daughter to turn out to be a blatant tart like--- At this point, suggestions are welcome. Please?

I really had little notion as to all the work that is put into a child even before they arrive. So lucky that I've got my mother-in-law to at each turn make it so abundantly clear how unprepared I am at current to take care of a baby. She has been so instructive to me in such a short amount of time, which is rather good considering that if she keeps this up, I will deliver this baby five-six months early and be in a position where I will need to put all the valuable little gems of wisdom she's bestowed upon me to good use.

Also, she gave me the family's antique crib and I need to find a way to give it back before I have a raging Juliana breaking into my house to get it---not that it's not her fault that her mother is angry, but--I do not even want the thing

I would propose that you had all better get used to calling me Mrs. Ophelia Wilkes. For real this time.

Soooo then.