Is anyone not discussing names w/ their DD/SO until their ultrasound?

mama31

DH & I haven't really discussed names.  He doesn't even want to talk about it until we know the sex of the baby.  I think once we know the sex in a couple weeks we are never going to agree, especially if it is a girl.

mama31

Oops I meant DH not DD.

evaazalea

DH would not even humor me until the big u/s, it was so annoying!

krissyh21

When I was figuring out DS name, that was how my H wanted to play it. He said why bother arguing 2 sets of names then just one. He had a point. We finalized DS name 2 months after finding out. H and I had completely different tastes on names.

anna7602

We're not even TTC again yet, but we discuss girls' names all the time. We used our very favorite one with DD and have no idea what we would name another girl. I can't imagine only having 40 weeks to decide, much less 20!

damabo80

Yeah, but because we've been burned before. We wanted to make sure that this baby had the potential to be taken home (everything checked out at the anatomy scan) before we went crazy and giddy with the name conversation.

Naming dead babies is different than naming live, take home babies. You don't have to worry whether it sounds OK, or if anyone will make fun of them on the playground. Instead, you can pick names that have special meaning without worrying how they sound.

Clerk9

DH & I had a boy's name picked out, but could never agree on a girl's name, so we raised the white flag until after we found out the sex.  Of course she's a girl, & we still don't agree, but everything's been quite civil.    

I don't see why you can't casually toss some names around before finding out the sex...it doesn't have to be knock-down drag-out at this point & sometimes letting a name "sit around" for awhile causes you to feel differently about it...

GL! 

vanessrose

thats a touchy situation....I am 17weeks and will find out May 2nd what we are having...if its a girl we have a name choosen already...but if its a boy...different story..My fiance is a JR and not crazy about naming my son Robert Bruce ____ the 3rd... he didnt want to before we got pregnant and now with him families influence I think he is leaning more towards it...so we agreed not to talk about a boys name unless we are having a boy...

Nanna

We never discussed names until after we found out the sex.  I didn't see the point in doubling our work!

Quizzle

We threw around names and discussed it and even decided on some... but after we found out the sex all of a sudden we started questioning everything and adding more to the pot because it was all of a sudden REAL.

We did go with the first name we picked out in the end, though. 

ChefSarah22

We've been narrowing down some names for a week or so now.  We have 4 boy names and 3 girls names picked so it hopefully won't be as much work once we do find out what we are having.  DH wasn't overly excited about discussing anything until recently.

chankins14

We throw out names to one another all the time but we won't get serius until the u/s.

naflmj

DH refused to discuss until our ultrasound last time. This time I told him I'm picking the name so I am pretty set already

Kml9876

We haven't really talked about names because we figured if we wait another week than we only have to think of either boy or girl names.

TUGOsQueen

Nanna:

We never discussed names until after we found out the sex.  I didn't see the point in doubling our work!

This. I would think about them but we never really talked about it until after we knew. He never even wanted to hear suggestions until then.

bananers

We aren't TTC for a few more months. We have had a couple casual conversations about names in the past and quickly realized we have different taste. I have a feeling this is going to be a touchy subject when the time comes, so we probably will put off discussing names until we know what we're having. No use arguing over something that is not even an issue!

718gemini

Clerk9:

I don't see why you can't casually toss some names around before finding out the sex...it doesn't have to be knock-down drag-out at this point & sometimes letting a name "sit around" for awhile causes you to feel differently about it...

That's the way I feel about it.  DH and I have been casually chatting about names since before we were TTC.  It's been fun, and at least we now have an idea of each others' tastes.  We already have forerunners for either sex, but who knows if we'll end up actually using those names when the time comes around. 

I don't want to find out the sex beforehand anyway, so waiting for that's not an issue.... and even if we were, we'd have a head-start with the next kid, if it turned out to be of the other sex than this one.