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iteachk
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I'm not going to tell you my kid's name, OKAY?!?
iteachk
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Ugh. We went to a big party today for someone in DH's family. There were over 100 people there, and I was chatting with a group of them. Not only did they all touch my belly (without asking) but they wanted to know what we're going to name her.
Me: We aren't saying. We don't want any opinions.
Them: That's no fun. What letter does it start with?
Me: Not saying.
Them: Does Kate know? Let's go ask Kate!
Me: (Lying) No, she doesn't.
Them: Just tell us. We won't tell anyone. Please, please, please?
FFS, people, let it go. 
We finally left b/c they were pvssing me off.
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Re: I'm not going to tell you my kid's name, OKAY?!?
You guessed the name!
LOL. I've considered that. But I'm always skeered they're going to get me something cute & monogrammed before she's born. Though if something were monogrammed with Nevaeh, I'm pretty sure I could sell it on ebay in about 5 minutes.
Problem with picking a really ridiculous name and telling people that's what you're going to name your kid is that sometimes they take you seriously...
Also, I hate that question. And I hate that we told some of our friends what our front runners were early on, because they've decided what THEY think the name shoudl be, and it gets brought up all.the.time.
I thought my mother was the only crazy one who did this. Granted at least you are PG.
My MIL really wants to know too. She knows better than to suggest names or bug me about it, but she does say things like, "I want to shop now & get Baby's initials to hang in my nursery, so just tell me the 1st letter." (Don't get me started on MIL's "nursery."
) She was mad b/c I wouldn't tell her. She would freak the eff out if she knew that MY mom is the only one who knows the name. Ha!
We did the same thing.
med-free birth x2, breastfeeding, baby wearing SAHM
My BFP Chart
How the heck are you almost 39 wks? Eeek!
Go for it! How cool to be team green. I wish I had the patience to do it!
My XMIL gave me some heck about the name I chose for DD. She was very rude and kept saying I should just choose a "normal" name like Joseph. After I reminded her several times I'm having a girl, she said, "Well I am still hoping for a boy because I just don't like girls."
MILs can be a pain in the butt.
That is SO annoying. We ended up just deciding to share our name, so we haven't gone through that, but I just don't understand why people can't respect the fact that some people don't want to share names.
I've never pestered friends on names when they clearly haven't shared them and jeez, if I was flat out told we're not telling, I'd let it go.
For me, the question I've been getting for the past 2+ weeks is when is Baby O. going to arrive? One, let me get to my due date, people (which I have now) and two, if I knew that I could probably make a lot of money with access to that kind of info. Now I just wish she'd arrive so people would STFU already, ugh! I just keep telling people she'll get here when she's ready, but I wish I had the nerve to be snarkier and maybe manage to shut some people up.
I hated it because people are such assholes about names. When we mentioned that we were trying to decide between two, people wouldn't leave us alone about it, like "You should pick X, X is a much better name, Y sucks, you should not name your baby Y"
Of course, the Y name is the one we're going with now. Other people can suck it.
I don't know that it's a UO... Basically I don't have a problem either way. Share your name or don't. I can understand some people not wanting to share but for us, we didn't really find it to be that big of a deal. Everyone's different, I guess.