25w0d - "I just know..."

I find it a bit strange when people claim to "just know" things about my pregnancy. I know that the people who care about me are excited and all, and I know that this behavior of theirs comes from a place of love, but it's still a bit weird to me.

For example, when we started to tell people we were pregnant, a bunch of people just knew it. I knew it was their way of saying they were happy for me, but it was still very, very strange. Some pointed to things like, 'oh, you were sick a lot' as a clue. But the fact is that I have been constantly sick since summer of 2007, so they were full of crap :-P.

Then people 'just knew' what gender of baby we were having. Some assigned confidence values to it. I got a "it's definitely a boy" and "I'm 90% sure it's a girl". I thought, well, one of them is probably right (or else poor Acorn will have a tough time). But it was bizarre. People just knew what we were going to have. And the ones that were right really felt like they were psychic. It was really, really funny.

Now that we know we are having a girl (or at least that is what the sonogram indicates), we are working on names. We have not shared any of our final names with anybody. Hell, we have only narrowed it down to about the top 30. There are no real final names. There are some friends of ours who 'just know' what name we are going to go with. Again, it's bizarre. We don't even know what name we are going to go with. We don't have it narrowed down to even a type or ethnic background or anything like that. So it's strange that people have guesses that they are confident in.

For the record... when it came to pregnancy, I personally 'just knew' I was pregnant almost a week before my period was due. But only because my body reacted really, really weirdly to a night of heavy drinking and debauchery. And even then, I didn't think to test for a few more days, when my skin broke out. I thought, well, something is VERY different. For gender, I referred to my baby as 'her' from the beginning, until I started dreaming I was having a boy. Then I was pretty sure I was having a boy. A few days before my ultrasound I dreamed I was having a girl. So I didn't know jack. And as for names, well, since finding out I was having a girl I did have one dream that I had a boy and I knew his name. The girl dreams I have had never reveal a name to me.

Anyway, I know it comes from a place of love. So I am trying not to find it too weird. But it kind of is, you know?