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Mrs.A&J
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Anyone scared to reveal name?
Mrs.A&J
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I don't want to tell people my girl name until we use it, just because I don't want people to take it. Anyone else feel that way?
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Re: Anyone scared to reveal name?
This is what I am afraid of too
We keep our names secret to make the birth announcement more exciting - which is also why we are team green. It's also convenient for avoiding hearing other people's opinions about our names... people are less likely to criticize a name if the baby is born. Hard to insult a newborn baby
So, no, not worried other people will "take" it.
we don't reveal names for two reasons: 1) i don't want to hear people's dislikes about a name choice my husband and i have decided on and love for our little girl(s) and 2) i don't want them to steal our name.
we just tell them we "haven't decided" yet.
this!
We'll tell because family's opinions really don't bother or sway us. My grandpa (who I love dearly and see every other day) said "you're kidding, right?" when I told him I was naming my daughter Hazel. He actually said "that is the ugliest name I've ever heard. You might as well name her Marvin." He's not known for tact.
If you share your names, you will get opinions. If negative opinions will bother you, don't share.
Other than myself, my boyfriend, and a handful of people on this site, NO ONE knew my daughter's name until I was in the hospital. I liked it that way. Then they couldn't put their two cents in and make me change my mind or anything.
And I completely understand where you're coming from. I mentioned to a friend that if I ever had another girl I wanted to use the name Mackenzie, and a month later she found out she was pregnant and baby comes and what's her name?! Haha. I kept telling her every name under the sun to try to steer her away but her mom kept saying "If you like that name then you use it," so I gave up and she got the name. It's not the end of the world though. It's better then the name she wanted (Kyah).
Whatever you decide to do, make sure that it makes you happy. It's your baby, not your parents or in-laws or friend's.
mm 2/17/11 * dd born 4/20/12 * bo 1/3/14 * edd 1/21/ 1/15
We are team green and we dont share for 2 reasons- 1 is that I just don't want to hear people's opinions. It wouldn't influence our choices, but it would annoy the sh!t out of me to have to hear my (or DHs) family criticize the name of their future grandbaby/niece/nephew. The other reason is that we aren't sure if we are going to be done having kids after this baby, and if we share our girl and boy names (not that we actually have a girl name yet), we are obviously only going to be able to use one of those names. If we happen to have another kid, we want to reserve the other name for our future kid.
We are both obsessed with our boy name, and dont plan to share it with anyone until (if) we have a boy. So if we have a girl this time, we won't be sharing our would-be boy name, so we can be sure it is still unheard of if we ever have a son.
Trying for #2 since July 2010
BFP 8/1/10, missed m/c, D&C 9/15/10.
BFP 1/8/11, chemical pregnancy.
BFP 3/4/11, measured behind all along, no more HB 4/18/11. D&C 4/29/11. HCG didn't drop, Repeat D&C 6/17/11; confirmed molar pregnancy 6/23/11.
Forced break, including two Hysteroscopies in October to remove retained tissue.
BFP 12/29/11! Betas @ 10 dpo = 85, 14 dpo= 498, 22 dpo = 7242
Heard HB 1/24/12. 144 bpm!
Luca Rose born 9/9/12! More than worth the wait!