Anyone STILL not have a name? (or has been in this situation before?)

[beanbean]

Our poor baby is still nameless. Today is my due date.

Anyone else in the same boat, or has anyone else been through this and named the baby after he/she was born? Please reassure me that we will choose the "perfect" name after we meet her...!

[starry_mama]

OMG, not in your DDC, but with Julian, he didn't have a name until he was 2 or 3 days old. DH and I have trouble making decisions.

[beanbean]

Originally Posted by starry_mama

OMG, not in your DDC, but with Julian, he didn't have a name until he was 2 or 3 days old. DH and I have trouble making decisions.

Was the name on your "short list" or did you think of it after he arrived? Is it a perfect fit for him now?

[mollybird77]

That was how we were with our dd. We had two names on our "short list" (Camille or Chloe). When she came out, those names just did NOT fit her, and we were screwed! Completely randomly dh called her "Sarah" a few hours after she was born. That name wasn't on our short list OR long list, but it totally felt right. The name suits her perfectly today (it means "princess" in Hebrew, and that she is!).

[pilllowhead]

We intentionally didn't think or talk about it too much this time. The day after she was born the name Greta came into my head and it just seemed to fit. I know it comes to some people in a dream or through siblings, try to keep yourself open to influences!

[painefaria]

When we were thinking about names we had a few that we liked. We were set on one, we were sure DS was a girl. When HE arrived we "asked" him what he liked. He cried at the other two names that we suggested and "smiled" at Holden Christopher. So we have our little Holden!

[starry_mama]

Originally Posted by beanbean

Was the name on your "short list" or did you think of it after he arrived? Is it a perfect fit for him now?

No, his name wasn't on ANY list! We hadn't thought of any girl names, and I liked Sebastian for a boy and DH liked Rowan. Somehow he ended up Julian, and we are so happy! He is *such* a Julian.

[MamaJenese]

Elliot was nameless for days! Nothing on our list seemes to be his name.All of the sudden it just came to us. It is for sure his name! I love it and could not imagine calling him anything else!

[TurboClaudia]

not in your ddc, but our first child was "baby" for 3 weeks after he was born because the right name had not yet come to us. our second was also "baby" or little one or the small one for 2 weeks until the right name surfaced.

[Panthira]

We're in the same boat, and have no name picked out for our soon-to-be-born baby. We did have names for the last 2 babies picked out before they were born, but this one just doesn't 'click' with anything.

[jessjgh1]

We had no names picked out and did not know the gender- yikes! We had a list of about 7 names each that we both like... but no idea about what ones we might really use. We had not even discussed them in a while and I was 5 days overdue.

We ended up having a girl and that was a shock to dh, and something I barely let my self hope for, so even though we had a list of girls names he wanted to revisit the name list anyways. He kept saying I really didn't think much about girls names since he didn't think she was a she. And then he was just throwing out random names... I was thinking, oh no, this is going to take forever!

We ended up with a perfect name (I think) that honours all of our grandmothers (3 living!!)- between the first name, Rebecca, starting with the letter of my grandmothers first name (although she's formally Irene, I was instructed to always call her Rene) and it is also the first letter of my deceased grandmother's last name. The middle name also starts with the same letter A from her middle name 'Agnes'. She passed away just before Joshua was born. Adalin is a combination of my dh's grandparents names, who are both alive (one at 98 years).

Of course, dh's dad's family is Jewish, so we are a bit backwards on the honouring tradition, but dh said not to worry about that .

My dh's family hasn't had a girl in over 70 years, 3 generations, so they are pretty excited.

Dh and I just spent our first morning thinking about the names and came up pretty quickly with something we were both happy with... even though th e middle name is prounounced/spelled differently than when I first thought of it
and dh keeps yelling at me for pronouncing it wrong....

I think the nameing was the best part of my dh staying to 'help' out overnight. We got to wake up together around 6 am with Rebecca and talk about the baby. At about 2am when he complained about me turning on the lihgt (so I could see to nurse) I just about sent him home.

Rebecca Adalin with a soft a and lin like the name Lynn.

Jessica

[dctexan]

Lurking from Aug DDC - no name for little one and we aren't even stressing about it anymore. We have a list, the list is coming with us to the hospital, and we will either pick something from the list or the babe will tell us his name. Dh and I are fine with this arrangement - everyone else seems to think we are crazy.

[riomidwife]

I had my baby for ten days before we settled on a name! And even then we only made the decision because we had to file the birth certificate within ten days or it would have been a huge hassle. Still don't have a middle name though- we're waiting until something quite meaningful comes....So we will have to amend the BC for that but it won't be such a big deal. The right name WILL come. I favor waiting until you see the baby anyway to name him or her. That makes more sense to me, especially if one particular name doesn't for sure stand out as THE one.

[phathui5]

Ds3 is 3 days old now and still doesn't have a name.

[manitobamama]

We hadn't really committed to a name other than a boy's name that I wasn't too fond off. Since this is our 5th girl dh was really thinking it was a boy. So he said I could pick the girls name if he could have his boys name. I was a bit worried and hesitant to make that deal. At first when she was born we didn't talk about her name we were to happy just to adore her. But the minute dh said it's another girl I just knew her name would be Emerson. Ironically I liked Emerson for the short name of Emery but she's not getting called Emery by anyone even me. My dad is calling her Emmie but we are all calling her Emerson. The sisters weren't fond of the name but I think it's growing on them. DD1 wanted Ryan and dd2 wanted Rain so we put it all together and I think it works pretty well Emerson Ryann Rayne.
My crazy thoughts now are that since we don't have her registered yet (papers aren't here yet) I would rather spell her name Emersyn... I really like Emersyn Ryann Rayne.... BUT we sent out all the email and announcements as Emerson. Do you think it's too late to change it???????

[newmommaamy]

I think it is definitly not too late to change the spelling if you haven't submitted the legal paperwork yet. Just send an email with another cute picture and a name change- everyone will be glad to get another photo

[manitobamama]

Originally Posted by newmommaamy

I think it is definitly not too late to change the spelling if you haven't submitted the legal paperwork yet. Just send an email with another cute picture and a name change- everyone will be glad to get another photo

That is what I was thinking! Now I just have to bring it up with Dh!