I, too, am impressed that anybody has a name yet. First of all, we FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT when it comes to names. It's really upsetting. I get attached to all sorts of names and make lists and dh nixes them one by one in a totally cold and dismissive way. I have been through this with 3 children now (my m/c was a weird circumstance, something kept telling me I needed a name...and FAST!!!) and every time I ask him to please keep the nasty comments to himself and be gentle about it, but he just can't do it!
He's an AMAZING man and I"m so lucky I snagged him, but that is one of my pet peeves.
Anyway, one of the reasons this is so hard is because our criteria for names is as follows:
Must sound good in English
Must sound good in Hebrew (dh is Israeli and I am Israeli American)
Must be very unique
Must have a specific Hebrew meaning (thus far, we've combined words in Hebrew to make a meaningful and original name)
Must describe the child (using our vibes from the baby during pregnancy...and then confirmed upon meeting the child)
Our dd's name means, in English "G-d's Heart" and her middle name means "sheep" (named after my grandmother). Her first name also is related to the word for a lioness. And only after we named her did we learn that Lioness/Sheep is a throw back to the biblical account of how the world will be when there is complete peace, often translated as the "wolf laying down with the sheep". This describes dd to a "t".
ds's name means "My G-d's People" and his second name is "The Sun". It actually forms the sentence "My G-d's people are the Sun" if taken all together. It's both gentle and strong, just like him.
Anyways, I have NO idea what we will do. I have a name that I LOOOOVE that I just haven't even been able to get dh on board with. It's a nature/place name for a boy and I even tried to give it to my best friend, who considered it, but didn't use it. I also have a name for a girl that I have liked for about 12 years (well before I met dh) but the meaning in Hebrew just doesn't hold any significance for us. So, I have no idea what we will do.
DH wants to find out gender. I don't know how I feel about that. But if we do, that should make things quite a bit easier for us.
He's an AMAZING man and I"m so lucky I snagged him, but that is one of my pet peeves.
Anyway, one of the reasons this is so hard is because our criteria for names is as follows:
Must sound good in English
Must sound good in Hebrew (dh is Israeli and I am Israeli American)
Must be very unique
Must have a specific Hebrew meaning (thus far, we've combined words in Hebrew to make a meaningful and original name)
Must describe the child (using our vibes from the baby during pregnancy...and then confirmed upon meeting the child)
Our dd's name means, in English "G-d's Heart" and her middle name means "sheep" (named after my grandmother). Her first name also is related to the word for a lioness. And only after we named her did we learn that Lioness/Sheep is a throw back to the biblical account of how the world will be when there is complete peace, often translated as the "wolf laying down with the sheep". This describes dd to a "t".
ds's name means "My G-d's People" and his second name is "The Sun". It actually forms the sentence "My G-d's people are the Sun" if taken all together. It's both gentle and strong, just like him.
Anyways, I have NO idea what we will do. I have a name that I LOOOOVE that I just haven't even been able to get dh on board with. It's a nature/place name for a boy and I even tried to give it to my best friend, who considered it, but didn't use it. I also have a name for a girl that I have liked for about 12 years (well before I met dh) but the meaning in Hebrew just doesn't hold any significance for us. So, I have no idea what we will do.
DH wants to find out gender. I don't know how I feel about that. But if we do, that should make things quite a bit easier for us.
and girl names are so much easier! i am thinking pink (though i always wanted to raise another little boy!) but, my instincts have been wrong for both of my kids, in the past. 7 months, and we'll see though, right?
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I guess I could console myself with a pet cat....or goldfish... :P
