Since we're about half baked and the vast majority of us know the sex of our baby(if we want to)........
What's on your short list?
FN decided? MN? Got the whole thing locked down?
TW
M/C 06/09/2011
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
Re: Baby Name Thread - Take Three
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
James Robert III and we will call him James
Dating: 10/3/08 | Married: 12/27/14
TTC #1: August 2015 | BFP: 2/3/16 | EDD: 10/7/16
DD: 10/5/16
TTC #2: September 2017 | BFP: 4/28/18 | EDD: 1/7/19
DS: 1/9/19
Our front runners are still Caitlin Jean and Aaron Jack. We find out next week what we're having. People won't say "A-aron" forever, right?
Married: October 2014
Began TTC: April 2015
BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w)
BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w)
BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17
BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
I love the way that Kristen Elizabeth sounds, but I am not in love with the name Kristen (mainly because the "meaning" of the name is "Christian", which is boring and not very descriptive). I need your help figuring out other strong "K" or "C" names that don't rhyme with "Kelley". Also, it can not be Katherine/Catherine or Karen, as my DH had serious girlfriends by those names
Andrea -- FTM at 39!
Girl will be Josephine (great choice @ladystout08! I vote for Josephine ).
Boy, we have no idea. We don't agree on anything and I can't find anything that has that "spark" to it that makes me fall in love with it. DH's frontrunner is Michael. It's a perfectly nice name but I'm an 80's kid and grew up in an Italian area with waaaayyyyy too many Michaels and still constantly run into men my age with the name. I've never run into any kids with the name in my 12 years of being a parent, but it still feels so common to me because of my youth. But for now, it's the only name that we both haven't vetoed.
*TW loss and children mentioned*
Apr 17: IUI #1 = BFN
May 17: IUI #2 = BFN
Jun 17: IUI #3 = Late BFP (18 DPO) | NMC 17Jul17 @ ~6w
Aug 17: IUI #4 = Cancelled due to premature ovulation | TI = BFN
Sep 17: IUI #5 = Cancelled due to overstimulation (10+ follies)
Nov 17: IVF #1 = Cancelled due to non-IF related health issue | TI = BFN
Dec 17: IVF #1 = Puregon 200, Menopur 75, Orgalutran, Suprefact trigger due to OHSS risk | 22R, 18M, 16F, 10B frozen
Feb 18: FET #1 (medicated) = BFN
Mar 18: FET #2 (natural cycle) = CP (beta 1: 54; beta 2: 0)
EDD: 07Jan2019 Team Green
My Rainbow Baby Boy born 03Jan2019
Christina
Christine
Caroline
Celeste
Camille
Cordelia
Calliope
Kathleen
Kaitlynn
Kendra
Kendall
Keira
Kimber
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
@AshVA I love James Everett.
@tosh24 DS is Micah. It’s not quite as common as Michael.
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
We are having a boy so of course we don't have a name. Our short list is Isaac (although DD is Isabelle so still debating if we want two "I" names), Edwin, Elliott and Elijah. We haven't even talked MNs yet.
Married since 8/2017
Married: October 2014
Began TTC: April 2015
BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w)
BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w)
BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17
BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
Andrea -- FTM at 39!
Haven't had A/S yet, but NIPT said girl so we're locked in on Alessandra Rosalie. Pretty long, but soo many nickname options - we don't have any planned on yet, but figure they will come naturally.
My mom & sister have both planted the seed in my brain "well what if the test was wrong, and it's a boy?" so we've thrown around some boy ideas too just so we aren't totally at square one. (Can you tell I'm an overthinker?) We like Sebastian Carter, but aren't 100% sold on it. So hopefully NIPT test was right lol.
We pretty much knew going into this that our boy name would be Samson Foster and our girl name would be Violet Elizabeth. NIPT and A/S both said boy, so Samson it is! My husband really likes "strong" names and I liked Samson better than Ajax so that was the winner lol. Foster is my grandmother's maiden name. I chose that as the middle name in lieu of my own last name because it's prettier and flows better but I still have a strong emotional connection to it. I'm going to a BBQ with that whole side of the extended family in a few weeks and can't wait to tell them the name!
Abandoning the biblical theme, we love Mairead, Siobhan, Roisin, and Caoimhe for girls. We can't agree on any boy names though
I'm not sure if Owen James sounds right so I'm trying to think of other middle name options but I keep coming back to James.
@jgil85 if we had used Owen it would have been Owen Robert. I think James works great there too, though (my DS1 is Simon James).
@wkuandrea I like Kristen Elizabeth! Other options for K or C names...
Christine/Christina
Charlize
Chloe
Kateri
Clarissa
Carla
Claire
Cora
BFP April 24, 2018 | EDD December 29, 2018
Our short list- Flynn, Finnegan/Finn, Ethan, Atlas
His mn will most likely be Brian.
Married: October 2014
Began TTC: April 2015
BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w)
BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w)
BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17
BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
@haycole I love Landon! DH veto'd it so we won't be using it, but I like it
Our short list for boy names is Jackson (baby Jack ), Camden, or Harrison. I don't really like Harrison anymore, but DH isn't as fond of Jackson or Camden anymore...so we're kind of SOL. We've read through thousands of names and none really stand out. If we did Jackson his MN would be Allen (DH's MN) and he'd have the same initials as DH. DD has my middle name, so that would be cool.
Married: 8/11/2007
DD: Born 2/3/17
BFP#2: 5/3, EDD 1/10/19
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
My husbands approach to naming- basically ignore that we need to talk about it until the baby’s about to come out- is going to bite him in the ass here. At this point I’d possibly compromise and give the kid my maiden name as a middle name (it’s also a solid first name now that I think about it!) but right now the passage of time is just making me more resolute. You don’t get to shoot down everything I think without offering suggestions!
Since we are 95% sure it's a boy, my front runners are:
Nathaniel (Rui/Li)
Zachary (Rui/Li)
Alexander (Rui/Li)
Carter (Rui/Li)
We are a mixed race family (DH is Chinese, I'm white), so we are pretty set on having a Chinese middle name. My DD's name is Lily Mei, which I love because my MN, my mom's MN, my grandma's MN, and my great grandma's MN are all May. I got to continue the MN tradition but also honor DH's culture by using the Chinese form. For the middle name, I like Rui or Li. Rui (pronounced similar to "Ray") is part of DH's Chinese name, so that would be cool. I also like Li because it flows and means strong.
*TW loss and children mentioned*
Apr 17: IUI #1 = BFN
May 17: IUI #2 = BFN
Jun 17: IUI #3 = Late BFP (18 DPO) | NMC 17Jul17 @ ~6w
Aug 17: IUI #4 = Cancelled due to premature ovulation | TI = BFN
Sep 17: IUI #5 = Cancelled due to overstimulation (10+ follies)
Nov 17: IVF #1 = Cancelled due to non-IF related health issue | TI = BFN
Dec 17: IVF #1 = Puregon 200, Menopur 75, Orgalutran, Suprefact trigger due to OHSS risk | 22R, 18M, 16F, 10B frozen
Feb 18: FET #1 (medicated) = BFN
Mar 18: FET #2 (natural cycle) = CP (beta 1: 54; beta 2: 0)
EDD: 07Jan2019 Team Green
My Rainbow Baby Boy born 03Jan2019
ditto on “playing along” w his BS on the first kid. Just don’t want to deal with all the back and forth this time (meaning me having to suggest 50 names and him shooting me down). I found a name that I really like and you don’t have any better suggestions so why can’t that be enough? He just told me that we would not be using Cash under any circumstances so I said we will just use my maiden name as a last name for this kid then. That works w me. Don’t really feel like compromising rn.
DS 05/29/2013
M/C 02/14/2017
M/C 06/05/2017
C/P 03/01/2018
BFP 05/17/2018 EDD 01/27/2019
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
We can't agree on a girls name so we are waiting until the anatomy scan next week to see if we even need to discuss it.