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For those who have had names picked for
| Sun, 09-24-2006 - 7:41pm |
a while. Do you think they will stick when you have a child??
I just got a positive test yesterday and on a mini road-trip DH and I were talking names. We both agree with what I had in mind, so that's it. All sort of anti-climatic. I don't want to be the couple that argues for months about it, but we both like our names and were set. Has this happened to anyone???
I just got a positive test yesterday and on a mini road-trip DH and I were talking names. We both agree with what I had in mind, so that's it. All sort of anti-climatic. I don't want to be the couple that argues for months about it, but we both like our names and were set. Has this happened to anyone???




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I'm sure you're not alone. It didn't happen that way for me, but many people have names picked out long before they're even pregnant, and they stick with them.
I mostly just wanted to say congratulations! Have a H&H nine months!
We hope to have 3 kids. So we have picked out 2 names that I know will stick when we do get PG. The third one keeps changing so I don't know for sure but we do have 2 in mind. If things go how we want them to we will have 1 boy, and 2 girls(LOL yeah I know its not likely that happens) Bryson Gage, Shelby Kay and for now Brooke Cheyenne. Bryson and Shelby are set in stone. So I know those won't change. I like that we already have names picked so we can avoid all that name comflict.
Dawn
Hey congrats, I am just over 4 weeks, so we should be due around the same time! With my first DS it was so easy, but we have been talking names, and so far nothing has stuck! Good luck, and have a happy healthy pg!
Michelle
Congratulations!
Gammy
I, unfortunately, have never been able to do this. We never have found out the gender beforehand, but even then we can't narrow it to 1 boy and 1 girl name. With each of my children the name we chose was different than the one we took to the hospital as the front runner. I am always surprised at people who come to a decison on this before they see the baby, it has just never worked for me.
Congrats!!
With DD#1 DH and I agreed for both girl and boy names very soon before she was conceived. With DD#2 we decided collectively about half way through. With this our first boy we are in semi agreement but no definite choice at all (for a boy we actualyl had been in agreement if this we re a girl.)
I think it makes it harder because this is our first and probably only boy (after having two girls --we agreed on boy's names for both past pregnancies, but now that he's actually coming ...! )
Karen
I generally can't get dh to discuss names much before we find out the gender (then he only has to go through lists for one sex LOL), but after that we generally settle on THE name sometime in the third trimester -- well before D-day, though. ;)
I think it's actually EASIER for the name to stick once you've been decided on it for that length of time, because you have the chance to bond with it as you constantly use it to refer to your child, if that makes sense. By the time they're born, you don't have to wonder "Does she look like a Cora (or whatever?" because she just IS Cora. It's already part of her identity.
Sure, if you went to the hospital undecided and tried to see if she "looked more like" a Cora or an Ingrid, you might go back and forth between the two or think she just looks more like one than the other, but when you choose a name ahead of time you do all that back-and-forth thinking before the baby's born, so you usually don't have that problem once the baby's here.
Oddly enough, I understand that a lot of people take a few names into the birth and choose afterwards, and that's great that it works so well for them, but I could never do it. For one thing, although I can see a baby looking like a "cutesy" name like "Lizzy" (a nn) or "Foo foo Bunny" (didn't someone post a name like this from a local hospital lately? LOL), most newborns don't look like their "adult" names right away. I couldn't look at an infant and say "Oh, he's such a Herbert!" or "She looks just like a Gertrude!" And since you're not naming someone who will be wear onesies for the rest of their life, you probably wouldn't want to go the cutesy route.
Second, none of my girls looked anything like they did as newborns after a few weeks, especially Abigail (since she was 10 lbs. 10 ozs. at birth and very swollen from the tough delivery). Two weeks later you wouldn't have known she was the same baby. So I could have decided she didn't look like an Abigail and went with something else, but she sure looks like an Abigail now. ;)
~Kelli
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