tattoos honoring your LO?

Keribells

Do you or your DH have a tattoo relating to your LO? BF wants to get one with a cross, her name and DOB but to me the cross indicates it is in her memory...am I wrong?

Ideas for a tattoo?

agran

We're researching a memorial tattoo but don't plan on using  a cross.  I think a cross could symbolize being blessed if you wanted... not necessarily memorial but that's the first thing I think of too.  We're probably going to do her name and birthday in roman numerals.  But ours is a memorial tattoo. 

Nessia

Keribells:

Do you or your DH have a tattoo relating to your LO? BF wants to get one with a cross, her name and DOB but to me the cross indicates it is in her memory...am I wrong?

Ideas for a tattoo?

It could. By brother has a cross with my cousin's name who passed away a few years ago.

MrsMillerTime

Honestly?  The DOB signifies more of a memorial tattoo than the cross does to me.

mrs.wildman

MrsMillerTime:

Honestly?  The DOB signifies more of a memorial tattoo than the cross does to me.

Ditto.

My DD's name is a flower. I plan on getting that flower tattoo. Hoping DH gifts that to me for Mother's Day.

HSartteach

Anytime I or my co-workers put a cross on someone with names/dates, it was to honor their memory.  That's my former tattooist opinion.

AustinAggie01

The first thing I think of when I see a cross is, yes, honoring a memory.  I also think that with angels and wings.

amyinaustin

DH used to want to do a footprint and the DOB, but I steered him away from that.  My thinking was if we had 2 (which we now do), he'd have to do the same thing and find another spot on his body to put it on, and he only had a few places that he would consider getting a tattoo.

I'm trying to convince him to just get the zodiac sign for each girl somewhere on his body.  That's a smaller symbol so it would take up less real estate.

sozay23

MrsRosie:

What about her newborn handprint or footprint and her name or something?

This is what my husband did- her footprint with her name down one said of it and her birthdate down the other. I don't think the birthdate makes it a memorial tattoo, in fact most people comment on how much they like it.

ETA- the cross on the other hand would make me think it was a memorial tattoo. To each his own though!

Keribells

sozay23:

MrsRosie:

What about her newborn handprint or footprint and her name or something?

This is what my husband did- her footprint with her name down one said of it and her birthdate down the other. I don't think the birthdate makes it a memorial tattoo, in fact most people comment on how much they like it.

ETA- the cross on the other hand would make me think it was a memorial tattoo. To each his own though!

I suggested a hand/foot print tattoo but he rejected my idea- I think because so many do that these days? This coming from the guy that wants the longhorn symbol on his calf....go figure. Now if I can get a picture of DD with her hand in the hook 'em sign I might have a winner! lol