With dd1, I kept raising the subject with dh for him to simply veto every. Single. Name. So at 38 weeks I told him he had the choice of discussing this with me or losing all say in the matter and that I planned to pick a particular name (which would have really really offended his mum). It worked and we had three names for each gender chosen within 2 hours. Which was lucky because I had been bluffing!

With dd2, we discussed names from about 20 weeks but couldn't decide on anything. So whilst we waited to go in to surf, we sat with the iPad cruising the births, deaths, and marriages registry! Funnily, a name I had suggested 4 times was one that dh suggested. Of course I quickly accepted! So we went in with 2 choices and an agreement that of neither suited, we would just name the baby "baby surname" until we could decide. We knew we were having a girl the second time around. Dh also had memories of first time around and wanted to avoid the controversial lol.

With both girls, we agreed that we wouldn't make the final name choice (from our list) until we met the baby so we could chose something suitable.