23 weeks and 3 days - Jota

A few days before the embryo transfer, I turned to my husband as we were going to bed and said, “If this works, we need to come up with a name that either starts with an ‘H’ or a ‘J.” He just looked at me and asked why. I explained that I thought it would be fun to nickname the baby with those letters in the Spanish alphabet – call the baby “Hache” (pronounced “ah-chay”) if we chose an H name, or “Jota” (pronounced “ho-ta”) if we chose a J name. He shook his head, told me he was not on board, and we went to bed. (To his defense, I was mostly just having fun. He’s Dutch/Irish and I’m German/British – it’s not like we have a rich Latino background. I just took a lot of Spanish in high school.)


Well, I’ve still taken to calling the baby “Jota” to irk him, even though we don’t even have any J names on the list. :)  So, as I promised yesterday evening, here is the 3D picture of Baby Jota (the 2D ones were a little fuzzy and/or involved the baby standing on his/her head):