Thinking about baby names...

We have already found a hospital we like in Hangzhou. It is called Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, named after a famous Hong Kong actor who donated a large amount of money to the building cost. The hospital is the first Internationally accredited hopsital (JCI) in China. They have several English speaking doctors and nurses on staff. We met with one doctor for a Q&A session about a month ago and were very pleasantly surprised to hear that they have a private birth room and midwives who can assist with the delivery. The only potential drawback is that if an emergency arises, the staff would have C-section as maybe their only fallback. We would really like to avoid having a C-section as that increases the risk that you will have complications with a future vaginal birth and thereby reduces the number of children you can have as C-sections are recommended to be performed only so many times...

We are going to check out at least one hospital in Shanghai the first week of November. We are going to Shanghai for a marriage conference, which our good friends, Buster and Amy Canfield blessed us by paying for the fees...Anyway, there is a hospital in Shanghai that performed the first water birth in China, Vikki would really like to use a birth pool as she did with Audriana again. So we want to give that one a look as well and maybe some other good hospitals in Shanghai.

Tonight we were thinking about baby names a little and wrote the following in my journal:

Girl names: Emily, Evelyn, Lydia, Alissa, Jessica; and the following for consideration as middle names: Elise, Anna, Grace, and Janae.

Boy names: Joseph Micaiah (there's a story behind that name), Eli, Isaac, Clay, Joshua, Landis, Micah; and middle names: Jeremiah and Aaron.

We probably won't be able to determine the gender of the baby prior to the birth. It's illegal in China to do so! Earlier, Jay felt as if it would be a girl. =)