Baby name vent

[Charlotte91]

Baby names are sooo hard!! I had beautiful names picked out for my future children.
Then I meet a guy with a sucky last name. So, nearly all my names went out the window. The names that didn't go out the window were things like his sister's name, ex's name and bed buddy's name. So, out the window they went.

DH had a boys name picked out for years, and I liked it. We were on holiday and he turned around and said "What about Hannah?"....."OK. Cool." and that's how we got Hannah.
Our boy's name we haven't kept for this bub because I learned later that DH and his ex had always said that if they had a baby they would use that name....

This time, the girl's name took some convincing but we love it so much. We heard it when DD was in hospital and we've always remembered it. It's not very common at all.
The boy's name took a while and it started as one name, then suggested a different version of it, then something slightly different. The middle name started off as a joke, but now quickly fell in love with it.

[Sunny Love]

DH had a boys name picked out for years, and I liked it. We were on holiday and he turned around and said "What about Hannah?"....."OK. Cool." and that's how we got Hannah.
Our boy's name we haven't kept for this bub because I learned later that DH and his ex had always said that if they had a baby they would use that name....

WHOA! I'd have more to say than ......!! Could you use still though, with the past being the past?

[Charlotte91]

WHOA! I'd have more to say than ......!! Could you use still though, with the past being the past?

The past is well and truly the past, he knew after 18mos in that relationship that it wasn't going to work out. But he stayed with her for another 18mos, living 3 hours away. Long story, but I just don't want to use that name.

I really prefer the boy's name we've got picked out this time anyway. It's a name DH and I came across and fell in love with together.

[Sunny Love]

I cant wait to see your BA charlotte and discover 'his' name!
Thanks for replying too, I hope I didn't offend in the process of my question :/

[Jellyfish]

About halfway through my pregnancy with DD2 we had decided she was "April". DP loved the name, I was only a like but since I got to pick "Imogen" (DD1) with noone else to weigh in and it was my in love name I thought it seemed fair. As time went on though, I was less and less keen on April and suddenly, pretty close to her birth, Aubrey popped into my head and I loved it... lucky DP did too. So you never know when THE name will come!

[Nai]

I'm so glad we didn't have boys! We had our girls names chosen and set early on but boys names were up in the air and we had a couple that we liked but didn't love.

We thought we had DD2's middle name sorted but then a friend had a baby before us and named their daughter the exact same first and middle names we were going to use completely coincidentally! So we had to choose another - DD1 ended up choosing it and it was the name of our OB I think it works even better that what we were going to use!

[Heaven]

I hear you! We don't have any boys names that we love! With the girls we had their names picked from very early, that's what they were going to be, we didn't even have any 'backup' names. But we have never had a boys name definitely picked out!! Maybe I won't have any boys. But I feel like it needs to be something I love too like the girls were. Boys names are soooo hard!!

[forshelby]

I named DS at 9 weeks pg.... My first inkling I was having a boy was that I couldn't come up with a girls name I loved as much as my boys name. I gauged peoples responses when I suggested the name. I expected my mum to hate it, and was surprised when she said 'OMG, that's perfect.' There were a few moments when I questioned the name.. whether it was too 'out there', but when DS was finally born, and I looked at his little face (for several days lol), I just knew. He wasn't a Heath, or an Owen. He was Axel, clearly!

Good luck