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Does your family like the name you've picked out?
If you dare to tell them, that is.
My MIL isn't crazy about it but that's just too bad for her, she already got to name babies and it's my turn! She keeps bringing up The Odd Couple, like anyone's gonna remember that show in a few years.
My mom just doesn't say anything about it...which I'm pretty sure means she doesn't like it. Oh well.
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Re: Does your family like the name you've picked out?
No one is going to remember the Odd Couple I mean jeez.
Both my DH and my side of the family love the name Talan for our baby boy, but now we just have to find a middle name...
Levi 4.21.10
I have shared names that are possibilities. I've either got positive feedback, or negative feedback....everyone has their opinion. It doesn't bother me that a parent doesn't like a name because I'm not stuck on anything yet (especially since we don't know the sex yet!) I like getting another persons viewpoint....but then if I really love a name and am adamant about it, I don't really care about what others think.
In the end, the parents give their opinions (because I ask) but they always tell me that it's our baby and it's our right to name our child whatever we like, regardless of what they think. I'm lucky.
We picked Lilette Rose. My family like the name.. but a lot of other people keep saying it's odd.. so I know what you mean. Just tell your MIL that that's what you like and all she's doing is making you feel bad about it (a little guilt trip never hurt anybody).
Same here!
I'm just not in the mood for having a name discussion with them or anyone else.. I don't want the why don't you name her ____ ? .... mmm
cuz we are her parents thank you..
so it's going to be a surprise..
meanwhile we make jokes about crazy names..
I had no idea Felix was from The Odd Couple....
and we're naming our little girl Liberty Rose, which both of our families love!
but I think they would love anything, they're all just so excited about her!!!!
Gah! I'm dealing with this too! And not just with the naming!
"you had your kids!"
Anyhoo, who cares if they like it, who cares if anyone likes it!? Thats why I don't understand these name poll posts
But fortunately they all loved the girl name
(not tat I'd care if they didn't 
)
My MIL doesn't really like the name we have picked-out, but she also knows we are on the fence about it. She doesn't like it because it reminds her of a kid from an old scary movie.
She looks at it as an opportunity to look names up for us. Which is totally welcome. Boy names are hard, we need all the help we can get.
We are planning on naming our DD Juliette Noelle which we both love and the only person to say something so far is my mom. She made the comment that it is to close to Julia which my sister who is due before me is using. I told her we had ours first and we aren't changing. Other than that people have loved it.
Red REALLY likes the name Mose. And everyone HATES it. Its actually pretty funny how much my family hates that name... so we just use it to bug them.
We haven't decided on a name yet. But in the end, their opinion wont really matter.
My family loves the name for the most part, but our friends kind of look at us weird, but my name is Rachelle and I have a last name of Peay and my middle name is Marrow, I have grown up my entire life with people calling me Rachel or Raquel and you would think that Marrow would be easy like Bone Marrow and Peay is pronounced pay so with the last name I want my baby to have an easy name. I hate always having to correct people, so our baby will be named Kayla Grace, simple yet beautiful.
And you know what we don't care who likes it because we are this baby's parents and no one is going to help feed or clothe our child so they have no input on the name.
Everyone BUT my sister likes our names. We have a long last name and so she thinks we should name our kids 3 letter names.
i can't blame her, i didn't like her name she originally picked for her son. BUT it was Hunter Deer... He now has a much more normal name.
Kinda... DH's parents are divorced. His mom and stepdad know the boy name and love it. DH's dad doesn't know because DH is a "the fourth", and his dad still thinks LO might be a "the fifth" (notta chance...)
My mom hasn't really said anything, but she thinks that the first name and last name should have a different number of syllables, and our girl name and last name don't... but she hasn't outright said it.
Their opinion doesn't really influence me though, I'm more concerned that DH and I will be able to agree.
My dad absolutely hates the boy name we've picked out... but I'm hoping he'll get over it when he learns that we're using his name as a middle name. My mom hated the boy name at first, too, and was evil evil MEAN about it, but she's gotten over it already.
They reacted so horribly to the boy name that we're not even discussing girl names with them. We haven't picked a girl name yet, but I'm sure they'd already hate everything on our list. Oh well!
ETA: My in-laws don't seem to give a crap what we name a boy, but for some reason seem really offended that we don't want their help with a girl name. :oP
My family really didn't like our name for DD #1, Riley. They tried to convince us to change it multiple times, but we were sold.
Thankfully, she's 4 now and they've all changed their minds
Everyone that we have told LOVES the name. Our lil man is gonna be Caiden Campbell. Hubbys middle name is Campbell and it goes SO well with our last name.
I love it too!