I am pleased to introduce my second child, a beautiful baby girl by the name of [name_f]Maren[/name_f] [name_f]Annalise[/name_f].
(pronounced: [name_f]Mare[/name_f]-in [name_f]Anna[/name_f]-leese)
[name_u]Eleven[/name_u] days early on the dot, she arrived at 3:47 PM on [name_u]January[/name_u] 11, 2014. Though we are still not quite sure why she came so early, you can bet that her mama is happy about it!
She is a sister to my son, four year old [name_m]Wesley[/name_m] [name_m]George[/name_m]. To be honest, we hadn’t settled on a name until dinner time the day she was born (okay, so not that long after, but with [name_m]Wesley[/name_m] we knew about a month prior). We had our shortlist narrowed down to two names: [name_f]Maren[/name_f] [name_f]Annalise[/name_f] and [name_f]Abigail[/name_f] [name_f]Katheryn[/name_f]. Ultimately, she just seemed more like a [name_f]Maren[/name_f] then an [name_u]Abbey[/name_u], plus I liked the flow of the name slightly better.
Since [name_m]Wesley[/name_m]'s middle name honors his grandpa, we wanted baby girl’s to be an honoring name as well. Hubby wanted the middle to honor me (which I thought was very cute), and since my name is [name_f]Anna[/name_f] [name_f]Katheryn[/name_f], we were pretty set on [name_f]Katheryn[/name_f] as a middle. That is, we were set until a genius berry gave me the wonderful suggestion of putting a spin on my first name and using that instead, pairing my guilty pleasure name [name_f]Maren[/name_f] with the name [name_f]Annalise[/name_f]. It was my favorite from then on, but it wasn’t until we held her in our arms that hubby gave into it 100%.
Her first name was just a name I had heard somewhere and loved. I think it suits her well.
[name_f]Maren[/name_f] has been in fairly good health, weighing 7lbs 6oz and 20 inches long when she was born (Not too shabby for eleven days early, huh? But I was three weeks early and was nine pounds, so…). There have been very few (and only extremely minor) health concerns with her so far, but the doctors seem to think she’ll be able to come home tonight!
We are so proud and overjoyed to welcome our second child to the world! Thanks to all the berries who gave me suggestions, you have no idea how much they meant to me!
