We conceived DS a month after DH's father died in rather extraordinary circumstances and he was born 4wks early 2 days before our first Christmas without him so he has always been our miracle baby and yes naming him after his Grandfather was always a given. Funnily we always sort of "knew" we were having a boy. Having said that my hubby's name is robert and his dad's name was robert so we wanted something a little different. Alexander is the other male name used in the family so we decided on a take on Alexander - Xander and his middle name is Robert Alan after his Grandad.

My Nana (Joy) passed away when I was 34wks pg with DS and I always planned on calling my daughter after her but my cousin beat me to it so she became Ariya Joy and temperance was another first name we were playing with just before she was born and well we figured DS had two middle names so why not :-)

I think both Carla and Carlos are lovely names! And it's great for kids to have a story behind their name