August 2017 Moms
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GTKY 7/31 - Name Questions
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1. Were you named after anyone?
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
Re: GTKY 7/31 - Name Questions
2. His middle name will be his best friends name (Derrik) <--- I wish DH was open to spelling it differently though
3. Honestly no idea. I feel like "Sarah" fits me well enough
Not after anyone, but after a song. So ... maybe that counts? Lol.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
DD's middle name is an English/Canadian version of her great, great grandmother's Croatian name (my mom's middle name is also a Canadian variation of that name). This LO, if a boy, will have my dad's name as a middle name, and if it's a girl, her middle name will either be my middle name or something as a nod to my dad.
We chose first names just based on what we like.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I actually like my name, lol, so I'd stick with what my parents chose.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? Nope. We haven't named any of our kids after family, friends, etc.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I love my daughter's names! She's Piper Savannah, and I'd be happy with either. I feel like my name is...boring?
2. Little guy isn't named after anyone. We are sort of shortening his grandfather's name for a middle name but that's more of a coincedence than anything.
3. I really like my name (Alysse). It was very uncommon as I was growing up. The only tough thing was I had a really difficult to pronounce last name so nobody ever got my name right, in any form. Also, I had a lisp, so that was that was fun for quite a while.
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
Nope. My name was going to be Tara Rose, but my mom got sick of it in the labor process and just picked my current name. My middle name is Gabrielle because got to have something Jewish in there?
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
Nope. I'm just giving him a good, strong name. Something that'll sound good when called at his college graduation or wedding.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
When I was younger I always wanted an American name; something easy to pronounce. Now that I'm older, I love confusing people by having an Indian first and last name while being the whitest person ever. So, long answer short, nope; I'm not creative enough to pick a name for myself.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? LOs middle name is my dads name. We figured we would do one name from my family for one kid and one from his for the other. DH is named after both of his grandfathers, but that wouldnt work for our kid (the names really do not mix well), so we chose one. His first name is a biblical name, but it was DHs favorite story growing up, so its perfect.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I wish I could pronounce my name with a spanish accent. My name originally is a hispanic name (though its been americanized forever), and now my last name is also Mexican, so if someone says it with the accent, its soo pretty.
Married: 7/21/12
BFP: 12/4/16 Due 8/8/17 -- Its a boy! Born 8/14/17
BFP: 5/19/19 and MC on 5/27/19
BFP: 6/24/19, MC on 7/24/19
BFP: 10/24, no heartbeat on 11/27, D&C 12/2
Officially diagnosed with Secondary infertility and recurrent miscarriage
IVF started Feb 2020
retrieval and PGT testing: 18 retrieved, 17 mature, 16 fertilized, 9 to blast, 8 PGT normal.
Transfer #1: June 14, 2020
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
DD is named after my maternal grandmother.
If this one is a girl, she'll be named with a nod to one of my paternal grandparents.
If this is a boy, the first name is a nod to DH and I's first camping location and the middle name is his first name.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I'm fine with my name now.
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Me: 34 / DH: 33
Married: Nov 2011
TTC #1: Jan 2013, BFP Sept 2013, DD: June 2014
TTC #2: Aug 2016, BFP Nov 2016, DS: August 2017
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? Yes, DS is Henry James after both grandpas and this LO will be Eli Ward. I always wanted to use Elizabeth or Eliza for a girl, but since I'm having 2 boys, DH came up with Eli as a way to still honor my Granny. Ward was her maiden name, so he's still named for her.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I like my name, simple, but not overly common. I was going to be AnnaBeth, but my dad said it was too long. When I married I dropped maiden name and kept my middle because it was more important to me.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
DD had my Moms name as her middle name. This little guy will have DHs dads name as his middle name. We still haven't settled on a first name (RCS is in 4 days!) but one of them on our list is my grandmothers maiden name.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I've always been fine with my name, can't imagine being named anything else.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? LO will have my dad's first name as his middle name
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I like my name, I couldn't imagine being called something else
2. Yes! She'll be named after my late grandfather (using his first name). A lot of old southern men have very feminine first names and end up going by their middle name, so it's not totally weird that we're using a male's name for our girl. Middle name will be Catherine, after Princess Kate---we just love her grace and elegance!
3. Nope, I like my name (Amanda), just don't call me Mandy (even though my parents do).
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? No. I looked up unisex names and this is the one we could agree on (Emery)
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I like my name! I always get compliments and it's rare, at least in my area.
My mom now swears this isn't true, but in a moment of weakness admitted it was after an actress on All My Children.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
DS's middle name is DH's name (long running tradition with the men in his family). This baby girl will have DH's maternal grandma's name and my recently deceased grandfather's name. This baby boy will have my maternal grandfather's middle name as his middle name.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I've always loved my name.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? Middle name will be after my mom's cousin who was her best friend and passed almost 2yrs ago. She was an awesome woman so I love that my DD will have that. I mean you want a strong, independent woman-that was my mom's cousin!
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I rarely go by my given name. Even when I was little no one called me Nicole- always Nikki. Which is funny since Nicole is one of my DHs favorite names.
1 infant loss
8/17: Our daughter was born
8/18: Our daughter kicked open heart surgery ass
2/19: We lost our son to Prader-Willi/Paradoxical Vocal Cord/ Noonans at 6wks old
4/26/2020: EDD for baby #3!!!
My middle name (Ruth) is the middle name of my great grandmother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, me, and my daughter. My grandmother likes to joke that "we're not a ruthless family!"
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
All their middle names are family names. Oldest DS's middle name is the name of the man who was the furthest we could trace into our family's geneology. DD's middle name was explained above, and new baby's middle name is Dean, which is shortened from
Deanda, my DH's grandfather's middle name.
First names were all random ones we liked.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I have enough trouble naming my kids...I'll stick with the one I have! It fits me!
My daughter was born about a week after my aunt passed away and I was on bedrest in the hospital during her ceremony of life. My mom and I decided to have DD's middle name Joliann to honor her in the same fashion.
This baby is the only one not named after anyone in our families.
I really enjoy my name. It is common and unique all at the same time and I always loved it growing up. I think it fits me.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? No, I just really love the name Olivia (first name) and my DH picked the middle name of Averie.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I always like Raquel since middle school days when in Spanish 1 class we had to pick out our "spanish name" for the year. But over all in all, I was fine with my name.
Nope
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
Eleanor is a variation of Helen, DH's deceased grandmother, and her middle name Lorraine is DH's late mother.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
My name is fairly generic but for some reason it's the hardest freaking name for people to read/pronounce/spell. My name is Christina with an A. Not Christine, not Christin, not Christy, not Christian. I'd pick something super easy and unmistakable lol
I was named after my grandmother who passed away when my mom was 12
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
We just chose names we liked and put them together as his first and middle.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
Honestly, I dont know. I like my name.
My grandmother's name was Christine, so they named me Kristen.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
We picked first names based on what we like. Middle names are after people. DS is Landon William (after my late Grandfather). If this baby is a boy, he will be Logan Blake (Blake is my DH), and if this baby is a girl, she will be Hailey Rose (after DH's late grandmother).
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I don't love my name, but it suits me. I did like that I was the only Kristen in my classes growing up and that it wasn't super common.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? If it's a boy, Leo Matthew, Leo is DH's mom's last name. Matthew is DH's bff he was visiting in Brazil when we met.
If the baby's a girl, Ella Claire, not after anyone. Just 2 names I like.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I like my name. Can't see myself as anything else.
My middle name is the same as my mom's and great aunt's, it is also one of the most common middle names out there so I am glad my first name is not common.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
We do first name as their own and then middle after family. DS is after my dad and DD will have something from my grandmother or myself depending on what first name we choose.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I have always loved my name. Now there is a major piece of technology with the same name, so in five years I may feel differently.
My mom says it was "inspired" by a friend of hers when I was born but that I am not named after her. Ok, sure mom!
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
No, both of our girls' names were just names we liked that sounded nice together. Rosalie has been the girl name we had in mind since before we were married, and Lilah just sounded so sweet with it!
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
As a child I hated my name because it was so common. So many Sarah's in school... I always had to use my last initial too. I remember distinctly wishing my name was Chelsea when I was in grade school, but now I like Sarah even though it's common for women my age. I think it suits me!
2. The plan right now is to name this LO after my grandmother (first name)
3. I have no idea what I'd change my name to, so I'm happy with it
#1 - DD: 7/5/12
#2 - DS: 5/21/14
#3 - EDD: 8/25/17
I was named after two great grandparents who passed away before I was born. We traditionally use the first initial of the name to honor someone who passed away.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
My grandmother passed away last year so we'll be using either a first or middle name starting with C to honor her. I've had a girl's name picked out for a while and DH didn't object, but we have only had 1 discussion on a boy's name months ago and didn't decide on anything. We really need to settle on a name or at least have a few options to pick from soon because I have a feeling that we're having another boy.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I don't mind my name and have no idea what else I'd rather be called.
- Nope
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
- First name for this one no, I dreamt it right after the anatomy scan- Izaiah. Was never even on our list previously. But middle name yes! DH is Jason and he's gone by J his whole like and hates when people spell it 'Jay' because there's no y in Jason lol so this LO middle will be Jai. DH would prefer just a J but we compromised.
Also DS1 is Oskar Skott after my grandfather and dad respectively and DS2 is Leon Austin after my other grandfather and DH's favorite nephew respectively.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
- I always wanted to be a 'Leah' for some reason. Never really liked my first name.
Together: January 2002
Married: May 2008
Baby: August 2017
Clearly we like to rush along at lightning speed...
No.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
We haven't decided on a name, but all our favorite variations have some family roots between either the first or middle names. It's tradition in my family that you should name your child after a beloved family member that has passed away. You don't have to use their name, even just using the same first letter is ok.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I love my name! My parents choose wisely for me! It suits me perfectly and I loved growing up with a unique (for the time) name.
Together: January 2002
Married: May 2008
Baby: August 2017
Clearly we like to rush along at lightning speed...
2. Baby named after anyone? Yes. To me it is very important to use a family name for a middle name (personal opinion) so this one will have my fathers name as his middle.
3. Another name for me? My name is just Abbey. I always wished it were Abigail for more formal occasions.
2) LO's middle name will be the same as mine. Which, along with being mine, my mom's, and my cousin's, is also MIL's and SIL's middle name!
3) I don't think I could picture myself with another name... maybe Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock
but in all seriousness, I do like my name, I haven't met many others with it and I love that my parents weren't afraid to tell me that my dad chose it because of a car.
2. His first name after my husband. And his grandfather. And his great grandfather.
One middle name is my dad and brother's name. Other middle name is my mom's maiden name.
3. I prefer my nickname to my whole name. Sometimes I accidentally ignore people when they call me by my full name since I'm not used to it.
My middle name is my grandmother's first name.
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone?
DH and my dad are both Charles, although DH goes by his middle name. We're team green and really like Charlie for either a boy or girl, so it's a strong possibility.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be?
I dig my name. I've always like the name Lucy too.
Married: 10.15.16
DS BD: 8.20.17
TTC #2 1.1.19
BFP #2 7.3.19
EDD #2 3.13.20
2. Are you planning to name your LO after anyone? Yes, we have always used family middle names. This baby will have my FIL's name as a middle name.
3. If you were to pick your own name, what would it be? I don't dislike my name at all, and I think it suits me, but just for fun if I had to pick a different name I might go with something super gaelic, weird spelling and all, like:
Aoibheann
Eavan | Say: eve-een
Aoibhinn means ‘lovely’, the name is also sometime a diminutive of Eve – ‘little Eve’.
DD#1: 5/29/12
DD#2: 1/14/15
Baby #3 on the way due 8/19/17
2. Nope! We were trying with the middle name but it just didn't flow. It's also one of my sister's kid's middle names and she already used my daughter's middle name (Rose from MY name!) before me. Ugh
3. I truly love my name. I didn't even change my maiden name to my middle after getting married because I love my 3 names so much. I love my married last name too!
Together: January 2002
Married: May 2008
Baby: August 2017
Clearly we like to rush along at lightning speed...
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Me: 34 / DH: 33
Married: Nov 2011
TTC #1: Jan 2013, BFP Sept 2013, DD: June 2014
TTC #2: Aug 2016, BFP Nov 2016, DS: August 2017