Baby name question for 2nd time moms

AECARTER · January 2010

This is my first baby and my hubbie and I have found out we are having a little girl. Since we have found out I have fallen for a name and I keep wanting to call the baby by it, but know that we still have about 20 weeks to go and I do not want to get myself attached to the name. I think there could be a chance that it could change, but really don't want it to. I think the my husband also likes the name, but I may be more attached then him.

My question is how many of you second time moms stuck with the first name you found that you loved?

BlueRidgeMama · January 2010

It ended up being her middle name.

GinEthansMom · January 2010

Yeah, we did. We kept the name a secret just in case we changed our minds and it was sort of special. But, we loved Ethan from the start. We tried out a handful of other names but Ethan just stuck. We also reserved the right to change it when we saw him but he was totally born an Ethan.

Mom_E224 · January 2010

When I was pregnant with DS #1 S/O suggested the name Ethan. We both fell in love with it after he picked it and it stuck! We went through a few middle names, but the first name didn't change. especially since that is one of the only names we could agree on and we both absolutely loved it.

Raffes484 · January 2010

We went into the Big U/S with a name for each gender, when we found out DD was a girl her name was Madelyn from that day forward.

mrsjenni · January 2010

For DS we talked about boy names that we liked and then, when we both decided on one, we shook on it to make it official. That way we knew that it wouldn't change and we could tell everyone that it was 100% his name. I then started calling him Carter before he was born.

For our baby girl, we knew the name before the big u/s (it was our girl name for #1) so we called her by her name when we left the u/s Actually, DH thought she was a girl the whole time, so he's been calling her "Brynn" since we got the BFP.

If you both love the name, then I'd make sure you're both in agreement that the baby's name won't change. It will make you feel better once you make it official

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Mrs.V · January 2010

For a girl, we had 2 names and were going to wait to see what the baby looked like and then decide. For a boy, we had one favourite name and then a few others that we were thinking about and again, planned to wait to see what the baby looked like. As soon as he was born we both thought our favourite name (Lucas) suited him so we went with it!

auslyn804 · January 2010

We did not. Well....I didn't. I was set on ds's name from the minute I found out I was pregnant but dh was never on board. I didn't call him by that name but I KNEW we were going to use it. At 36wks I changed my mind, or maybe dh finally changed it. It became his middle name instead.

DH refuses to talk about names for the same reason you state. He thinks there is just too much time to change your mind and says he will start talking about it when we're around 30ish weeks. Hopefully this baby will have a name before she's born.

Mike's Wife · January 2010

We picked out a boy and girl name right after my 1st trimester. We were team green and went to the hospital with those names and named DD the girl name. So it stuck.

ANJ410 · January 2010

We picked DS's name waaaayyy before we started trying to have kids, like back when we started dating in 99 (he was born in 07). So we knew if we were to ever have a boy that was definitely going to be his name. As soon as we found out the sex at 18 weeks we started referring to him by name. It really helped us bond with him and it gave him an identity instead of just some faceless notion of a baby.

This time around I had my heart set on a girl name, but DH was just not on board with it, so we held off on referring to her by name until we came to a 100% agreement, which we did last week. Now that I know her name, again I feel it has really helped with bonding and given her an identity.

L's mommy · January 2010

We stuck with the name that we chose before we even started having kids. It is difficult finding names that both people really love without having to compromise. Once we had found one we both agreed on, we had decided that would be the girl name no matter what. We had a harder time with boy names, but had one prior to our u/s.

This time we found another one we really liked but the mn was a debate for awhile. We will definitely be sticking with the name we chose. I have been referring to the baby by that name since we found out the sex.

Good luck deciding!

Sept_Bride'07 · January 2010

his name is written on his big u/s pics, we were very sure of the name. it didn't change. we're sure this time too, i can't imagine changing it.

CaitlinJ22 · January 2010

GinEthansMom:
Yeah, we did. We kept the name a secret just in case we changed our minds and it was sort of special. But, we loved Ethan from the start. We tried out a handful of other names but Ethan just stuck. We also reserved the right to change it when we saw him but he was totally born an Ethan.

same here

JessMil10 · January 2010

Didn't stick with it at all but it didn't really bother us. She was supposed to be Audrey Grace but we were never 100% sure of it. After she came out she became Brooke Lynn.

KeepingItLowKey · January 2010

We didn't discuss names until after she was born.

rxqueen918 · January 2010

We had a theoretical discussion when we were dating, DH mentioned that he liked a girl's name that no one else ever seemed to like. Funny enough it was a name I had heard a while back and thought was pretty, so we had our girl name picked out before we were even married and although the middle name changed a couple of times, that's what DD ended up being. Thank heavens DD was a girl because we didn't find out the sex ahead of time and it took us the entire pregnancy to come up with a boy's name that we only sort of liked. This time we were going to wait until we found out the sex at the big u/s to come up with names, since DH no longer likes the boy's name we picked out for #1 (thanks MIL/FIL!). However, they were unable (more like unwilling because we were preventing them from getting out before noon on Christmas Eve) to determine the sex of this one, so we have to discuss both a boy's and a girl's name. It will probably take us so long to agree on one of each that no matter what, that will be the name when Baby is born.

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