3rd Trimester
Those not sharing baby's name.
Do you get a hard time about it?
We have told everyone it's a surprise and they haven't made a huge deal. I feel like those closest to us have been very polite and respectful. It's people we barely know or see who make comments.
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Re: Those not sharing baby's name.
My mom keeps saying "but you can tell meeeeee! I won't tell!"
We haven't had complaints from anyone, and many say they wish they'd done that. We get more whining about us not finding out the sex than not telling the name.
Instead of telling people it's a surprise, we just say we haven't decided yet. It avoids all the hasseling.
We tell everyone we will pick from a list that we are taking to the hospital.
Everyone asks us the name, and we're not sharing it with anyone. Our families have been curious, but not mean about it. I know it drives my mom & my mil crazy!
With everyone else I do feel a little rude when I say we're not sharing, but we haven't been harassed too badly.
They'll know soon enough!
My mother and MIL have both driven me nuts asking about the name. My mom has tried the old guilt trips -- "you don't love me" and "what if I die before the baby is born? You'll feel so sad you didn't tell me." Needless to say, my mother is insane. All she has succeeded in doing is irritating me. My MIL, who lives in PA, spent the entire Thanksgiving weekend trying to guess the name. Fun... my friends and strangers have been fine not knowing.
We havent shared either and its the people ?I work with that are giving me the most crap about it. ?NOT YOUR DECISION.
DH wants to tell our parents for Christmas so we made them a puzzle....we put one letter of his name on a notecard (6 letters in all that spell his name) and sent them to the parents in a card they cant open until Christmas. ?They have to figure it out
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we do the same thing. We're not 100% decided on a name anyway so it's not quite like we're lying to them.