How do you handle the Nickname?

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How do you handle the Nickname?
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Thu, 07-13-2006 - 12:09pm

We are pretty settled on Therese Margot if our baby is a girl. Theresa is my mom's MN.

HOwever, we are thinking of using the nickname Tessa. But DH has some reservations about using a nickname as a name.

So, those who have name one thing and use a Nickname from day one. How do you do it? What did you put on your birth announcement? How you you introduce the baby? Do you explain each time that the name is Therese but the nick is Tessa? DH is worried that people will just call her Therese and not the nick--especially in school and stuff if the formal name is on the forms.

I don't think it's that big of a deal, but he is pushing for just naming Tessa instead of Therese since that's what we'd mostly call her. But I really want to honor my mom (who is seriously ill--it would be such a nice 'gift' to give her at this difficult time).

Anyone have experience with this? Suggestions or advice?

By the way, our pick for a boy is probably Gabriel (Gabe) and he doesn't have any issue with this nn, but he feels Tessa is just so different from Therese in spelling and pronunciation with I understand. sigh.

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Mon, 07-17-2006 - 5:11pm

All of our girls have nn's Jessica is Jessi, Brittany is Britt, Sarah is Sar pronounces S-Air) Emily is Emmi.. I knew from before she was born that Emmi would be Emily on her b-cert, but we would call her Emmi.. so we have called her Emmi from the start. we put her whole name on her announcements and tell everyone we call her Emmi.

our 2nd dd and Emmi are names in Honor of my father who died when Britt was 4months old My dad's Name was Sylvester Voly (pronounced V long O LEE) I took Britt's Middle name out of Sylvester since I knew I was having a girl.. dad hated the name Sylvia My mom wanted to name me that he said NO!. Britt's name is Brittany Tyler Dianne and our youngest is a version of my maiden name because I knew we were not going to have a son to carry on either of our names.. so her name is Emily Keitha Colleen

Good Luck..

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