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June 2012 Moms
Discordia1030
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Nursed without dairy, egg, soy, peanut, treenut, fish, shellfish or beef for over a year.
Currently tandem nursing dairy, egg, and shellfish free.
DS born via emergency c/s after 20 hrs of labor. DD successful VBAC!
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Who is choosing names to honor family?
Discordia1030
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I know we have and I've seen others posting about it too. I just did a blog post about our choices, so I was just wondering how many others were too!
Nursed without dairy, egg, soy, peanut, treenut, fish, shellfish or beef for over a year.
Currently tandem nursing dairy, egg, and shellfish free.
DS born via emergency c/s after 20 hrs of labor. DD successful VBAC!
Learning Liam
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Re: Who is choosing names to honor family?
If we have a boy, the mn will be DH's, and FIL's mn.
If we have a girl the mn will be similar to grandmother names on both sides.
We like honoring family with names, but still giving LO the opportunity to create their own identity with a name that is theirs. On my ILs side, there are 3 Audreys and it can get confusing.
We might be. Right now we are struggling with boy names and are kinda stuck on Easton (DH's grandfather's middle name was East).
But if we don't go with that, then no, we aren't.
Camryn Elizabeth: MIL is Carmen and my mom is Elizabeth
I have a few other family connections for the next name ideas but I am SO not there yet.
Boys MN will be Martin after DH's grandfather
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Little Dude: 16 Apr. 2009 | Little Doll: 10 Jun. 2012
We are giving our little girl the middle name of Franchesca, who was my aunt and God-mother that passed away this past May from ovarian cancer. She was much more than a aunt to me--having been one of my best friends, closest confidants, and basically a 2nd mother to me. There is this awesome story that when I was born, the first thing my mother was was "you were supposed to be a boy!" followed by "oh my god, you look like your Aunt Fran!" I can only hope and pray our little girl carries some of the amazing characteristics and spirit that my Aunt did.
Okay- getting sentimental- sorry
Not us. I don't understand sticking the kid with a middle name that they'll never use, and saying it somehow "honors" the person. If it were me (and this is just personal preference) I would want to be honored by something more tangible or meaningful.
Also, I don't plan on having enough children to cover all my bases. Deciding who was special enough to get naming honors is drama waiting to happen with those who would wonder why we didn't choose them.
We did/do. DD1's middle name is my mother's name (as well as my middle name).
DD2's middle name is DH's grandmother's name.
This one will have either first and middle names of both my grandmother's, or if a boy, will have my maiden name as a middle name - which is a tradition on my dad's side.
If we have a boy, I would love to use Augustus (my late grandmother's mn was Augusta) or Everett (H's grandpa)
Girls, however, we might try to use a mn that honors someone.
I really loved the idea of naming our daughter after my two grandmothers (I am/was super close with both). But, it just wasn't working for us so we opted for giving her the middle name Sophia (after my dad's mom who passed away) and we'll honor my mom's mom in another way.
Our girl name is Elle. I wanted something with an E, because my grandmother was Edith and DH's grandmother was Emily.
As for a boy, we are still working on that. We would like to come up with a middle name that means something, but I just don't like any of the names in our families. That is horrilbe huh?
Well maybe it will be decided for us tomorrow, when we go to our a/s!!!
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Its totally not for everyone.
However, it "honors" the person by using their name, or a variation of it. Maybe to those using them, that in itself is meaningful, although I completely get where you're coming from.
And just to add, in Jewish faith, you don't honor the living, you honor the deceased, so that helps make it a little more drama free
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Currently tandem nursing dairy, egg, and shellfish free.
DS born via emergency c/s after 20 hrs of labor. DD successful VBAC!
Learning Liam
Our boy's name middle name is after my brother has passed... and our girl's middle name is both my mom's and DH's Grandmother's names.
Our LO's middle name is from my best friend in college, Lauren, who passed away from leukemia in 2007. I know she's not family, but she was like a sister to me, that's for sure.
We had trouble with this situation, though. I knew that, no matter what, if it was a girl, her middle name would be Lauren after her, but the DH's mother passed away the same year (2007 was a really tough year for us) and he wanted to honor her and if it was a girl, he wanted to name her Lisa (after his mom). Well, honestly, I don't like the name Lisa and the DH's sister wanted the name if her little boy had been a girl. We agreed that we would do Lauren since I didn't get a chance to build a relationship with his mom (we started dating in January 2007 and she passed away in June).
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Actually, my mom's side is Jewish and her father passed away at the end of 2010. I have been playing with Leo (my grandpa's name) as a contender for this child, but then I realized that if I don't want the drama from DH's side, it's probably best to make it a blanket statement - no family names. It seems when DH mentions a boy name, I say "that's your dad's middle name" as a reason why we can't use it. So probably not fair to turn around and say "but I love this name from MY family!"
That makes sense. Although, FWIW, I like Leo!
Nursed without dairy, egg, soy, peanut, treenut, fish, shellfish or beef for over a year.
Currently tandem nursing dairy, egg, and shellfish free.
DS born via emergency c/s after 20 hrs of labor. DD successful VBAC!
Learning Liam
If it's a girl, we're giving her the middle name Marion after my maternal grandmother who died last June. She's the only family member we feel compelled to honor since she was always there for me growing up (then DH when he came along). She was always generous, kind and loving.
Everyone else is the family would have to do a lot to live up the legacy she left behind. By giving our baby her name, we're honoring her memory and hoping LO takes on all those qualities that made her so dear to everyone who knew her.
We're honoring with middle names. DS's mn is my brother's name and DD's mn will be DH's mom's name. That one was hard because I wanted to give her my mom's name who has/will still do everything for my kids but I had to be fair since DS had my side. Rumor has it that DH's bro was upset that DS wasn't named for him since he named his fist son after my husband. Luckily my mom understands and culturally it's not a tradition for her/us but for my DH's culture, it's a big deal to name after a family member.
If it's a boy then we're putting the middle name as my maiden name which is now a common boy's name(I told DH this before I got PG and there is no negotiation on this!)
If it's a girl we're struggling. I want my middle name or a great aunt of mine. I really don't want to name after my IL's. He picked a name out of thin air and I said no I want it to mean something.
The first name we chose is Robert, and it is my grandpa's name.
My husband is torn on the middle name. Robby would be the 6th generation in his family to have the middle name James, but we don't have anything to do with his family because of some really horrible things that happened. He doesn't know if he wants to give Robby the middle name James because of the family tie.
Remembering Robby
We didn't. Well, not really. DS has DHs first name as a middle name, and DD and I share a middle name, but that's it.
When pregnant with #1 we considered honoring a family member but there really was no one we wanted to honor. I was never close to my grandparents and 3 of DHs grandparents are still living. He mentioned wanting to use his (deceased) grandmothers name but it's Nina, pronounced Nine-Ah, and I couldn't get on board. Using the name of one of our parents seemed too complicated b/c obviously I'd want to use my parents and DH would want to use his parents, but we didn't want feelings hurt. And what if we said "we'll do your mom/dad this time, and mine next time" but then never had another LO or the opportunity to use the name.
Yeah, it was just too complicated once we realized we didn't really like any names or have anyone in mind to honor.
I talked to my father about possibly giving LO the middle name of Stanley if he turned out to be a boy. My Grandpa Stan, Dad's Dad, passed away in 2009 and he loved my DH so much, but never got to see us engaged or married. My Dad said no way, Grandpa actually hated his name, so he wouldn't want you to do that.
So I understand what your father said!
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Our son's milddle name will be after my husband's grandfather. My husband was very close to him. As for the first name, it is original, but everyone keeps asking us who it is after
We will be honoring our family's names. We have 2 options
1) Sophy Joan (Sophy = DH's mother's name)
2) Mia Joan (Mia = DH's grandmother's name)
MN-Joan = My grandmother's name, my mom's mn, and my mn
If we had a boy, I don't think we would do family names, we just have some really unattractive male names (Rodney, Yang, etc.)
DS is named using my husband's middle name as first name and my deceased father's middle name for his middle name.
If this one is a girl, we will probably use DH's deceased mother's middle name for the LO's middle name.
We both lost a parent when we were young (me 4, him 10).
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Saoirse's middle name is Genevieve, after my grandmother who passed away a few years ago. Oddly enough, DH picked it and he never even met my grandmother.
If this one is a boy, it will be named after DH and his father. Not my first choice but I understand it means a lot to them.
Both times (as in the future if we have more) I avoid "M" names because MIL will think it's in honor of her and I hate her.