With Liebling, we started talking names over a year before he was born. Just on and off. At 14w pg we were on a long car journey and decided we had 4 hours of each other's comany so would pick the name. We were still struggling with a girl's name when he was born! We had one, just not set in stone and not "perfect", just one we didn't hate.

With Stormageddon, once again we have a boy's name picked (surprisingly easy - although it may change), but no girl's name. DH no longer likes the name we had for Liebling. So I have a list of about 50 names I really like and he can pick from one of those when we need to pick a name.

With both, DH and I both get to pick a middle name. My choice first. Middle names are family names (Liebs is named after both my grandfathers then DH's family name... although his first name is also my g-g-g-grandfather's name, girl's name would have been a family name I also have and then another from my side as DH doesn't like his side; Stormy is going to be DH's name then my dad's name as middle names or same as before for a girl). First names are fired off and we just agree what we like the sound of.

I wasn't too keen on DS's second middle name at first, but then I found out he's named after three breweries. Parenting win!