Are you telling anyone LO's name?

Lexi169 · April 2010

Are you telling anyone such as friends or family what you have finaly decided on naming your LO?

We are not telling anyone but my best friend our baby names. We are only tellin my best friend because she always has amazing advice and I couldn't keep the secret from her any more. We aren't telling any one else the baby names because they all ready know they are twin and they are girls, we need to save some kind of surprise for then they get here!

Alyssa102 · April 2010

We told everyone!

bootcampbride · April 2010

Nope. It took us a long time to pick names and I don't feel like listening to anyones opinion on them.

BelhurstBride · April 2010

If asked we do share our selected names.

annasi83 · April 2010

My sister knows what it is, and my Mom is pissed about it. It's ridiculous! You are better off NOT sharing with anyone. It's such a headache.

shortms6 · April 2010

We're not telling a soul until she's here. I don't want people's opinions.

CandT · April 2010

Dh and I decided to only tell our parents. I told my best friend but that was it. The other day DH asked if I had told anyone and I said just "B", what about you and he said oh I've been telling everyone! OH well, I'm still not telling!

3littleladies · April 2010

I shared on here, but we're keeping it from friends & family. They all know it's a girl. Figure the name could be our element of surprise.

halfpintlbk · April 2010

Yep! We told everyone and I had several things embroidered so DH couldn't change his mind!!

Brags0607 · April 2010

We only told our parents & siblings. Although we are looking at names again & might change our mind!

Aprilmomx2 · April 2010

We have shared our two choices but honestly, next time I will NOT tell people.....Now I get why people don't share...I am shocked at teh amount of peole who have comments on the names we like...I have heard LOTS of names I would never pick for my baby but if that is what they like, more power to them.....

avada_kedavra · April 2010

we didn't tell anyone for a while, only refered to her as "g". a couple people guessed, and i can't keep a straight face, so yeah, it was all downhill from there.

shandars · April 2010

We have told everyone who has asked. It has been nice, because the peoplw who have asked are the ones who wanted to suggest names to us, so since they know we have a name, they haven't given us any more suggestions

slc2b · April 2010

We have told family and close friends, but not announcing it to random people who ask or more casual friends and acquaintances. I really just don't care to hear unsolicited opinions and want the name to be somewhat of a surprise.

TXgrlnFL · April 2010

We told everyone. I wanted to be able to call her something besides "the baby" and I'm horrible at keeping secrets.

samk213 · April 2010

We only told my sister. Our original plan was to not tell anyone. However, my sister and I are due on the same date and since we found out we're having a boy (and they don't find out the sex) and we had a name picked out, I told her, only because I would have been super disappointed if she had her baby first and chose the name we chose. This is her 6th baby, she's named a couple of her kids names I would have chosen and given one of her children my middle name, so the probability was high that we'd like the same name for a boy. However, we told them and it's not a name they have chosen for a boy. I hate that I felt I had to even tell, but I would have hated it more if after 4 years of IF the name we love was taken from us. Just another way IF still affects my life.

naturegirl417 · April 2010

Nope. It took DH and I forever to decide on names we loved, and now we don't want anyone's bad reaction/opinions to sour it for us. The in laws are really upset by this, but they'll deal

StephanieDM · April 2010

amypohl:
We have shared our two choices but honestly, next time I will NOT tell people

This. We told everyone our name choice and we got a lot of rude remarks, people going so far as to say they HATE the name. It really upset DH and I that our family and friends couldn't be respectful of our choice. Next time we will not be telling anyone - we'll just lie and say we're not deciding until birth so no one gets offended.

Mrs. Reckling · April 2010

We told everyone

Pocky873 · April 2010

We have only told family and our closest friends. Other people have been asking me left and right (especially on Facebook), and I just tell them that we'll make an announcement after she's born.

suzshack · April 2010

No.

I'm sure most people would be positive about the names, but honestly we haven't 100% decided & I don't want to deal with anyone else's criticisms..

ali_bl-nov05 · April 2010

We told everybody... it actually was on our baby shower invites so it is vox populi by now

JenCrabbe13 · April 2010

We told people as soon as we knew the gender. I ran across someone who is a month behind me and they said that they weren't telling anyone the name of the baby. They are also not finding out the gender. She was real weird about it. It came across that she didn't want to tell anyone due to someone may steal the name.

Mrs.Beasly · April 2010

Alyssa102:
We told everyone!

This!

Meztli · April 2010

Yeah, we told everyone, and while there are some people that we can tell don't care for it so much......we really don't care! lol. We like it, and would have named our first this if he had been a girl.

scoutkate · April 2010

We tell everyone who asks. We haven't gotten any negative comments. Her fn and mn are family names so I didn't expect any negative comments, but I've been surprised that no one has really given their two cents about her nickname (Betsy), since it's very old-fashioned and not too common nowadays. But everyone tells us they think it's super cute, and if they're lying, we don't know it. I don't care either way--we like it and that's all that matters!

mrsjenni · April 2010

I see no point in keeping baby names a secret... so yes, when someone asks, we do share our name.

decoglam42 · April 2010

We haven't told anyone yet but we have decorated the nursury and my little mans name is front and center on one of the walls. We are still waiting on bedding and a shade for the window to be delivered and I don't want to keep everyone out of the nursury when they come over so I think DH and I have decided to have a nursury/name reveal as soon as the nursury is completely put together, then they can say whatever they like but we aren't changing it!!!! Stick out tongue

BFab11 · April 2010

ali_bl-nov05:
We told everybody... it actually was on our baby shower invites so it is vox populi by now

this.

usfgirl97 · April 2010

We decided not to tell anyone. We didn't tell anyone our first child's name either and liked the anonymity of it, so we decided to keep the name a surprise again. We also didn't feel like hearing anyone's comments, positive or negative.

mysticporter · April 2010

Nope, no one. Surprise to share when she is born, plus who knows if we'll change our minds.

stgn01 · April 2010

shortms620:
We're not telling a soul until she's here. I don't want people's opinions.

MermaidNM · April 2010

We have not fully settled on a name for either gender, but we are sharing what we have with those that ask.

My friends had a baby 6 months ago, and they did not tell anyone the names and it hurt my feelings a little. I got over it, but it made me decide that I would rather deal with the comments than keep it a secret.

Eckowalski · April 2010

We aren't telling anyone and people get seriously offended by this - as if it was any of their business! I don't want to listen to everyone's take on the name we selected and their suggestions for alternate names.

boyscout8 · April 2010

Nope. I'm tired of listening to everyone else's opinions when it comes to how I do things. I'm just going to name her what I want and call it good. They had the chance to name their babies, and now it is my turn.

MrsW722 · April 2010

We haven't told anyone. We have narrowed it down to 2 names, and when anyone asks we just tell them that. Apparently we aren't very creative, because most everyone guesses at least one of the names. Oh well.

wannabmommy · April 2010

We don't even have a name to share yet!!

heatherf307 · April 2010

I didn't want to tell b/c I didn't want to hear people's negative comments, but DF can't keep a secret to save his life, so we ended up telling everybody. Still got a few negative remarks, but they'll get over it.

mrsjohnny · April 2010

The plan was only to tell our close family - but my DH is too excited and tells everyone he can : )

carole&clark · April 2010

Eckowalski:
We aren't telling anyone and people get seriously offended by this - as if it was any of their business! I don't want to listen to everyone's take on the name we selected and their suggestions for alternate names.

This exactly. MIL is pissed but I don't care. She keeps making snide comments about how she would get things monogrammed if she knew and blah blah blah. When the baby is born, just say, "here is your grandchild, ----!" Too bad if she hates it.

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