I just found an app called Kinder (by found I mean I was lurking the September board). Basically you swipe yes or no on baby names and your partner does the same, so you can see which names you both like.
We're still stumped on a boy name, and I ~feel~ like this is a boy so that's not good!
@doodlemom131 thanks for the recommendation, I'm going to check this out today! We're in the same boat, I just can't find a boy name I'm fully in love with that also works for my H (who is pretty easy-going about this stuff... really I just can't find a boy name I'm fully in love with, period).
@doodlemom131 we used that with our last baby and it was great! We had SO much trouble finding a boy name we both liked! He's hoping this one is a girl just so don't have to pick another boy name. 😂🤣😂
@doodlemom131 - I have a similar app called BabyName. No agreed on boy names yet but I think my husband won't really get into the name discussion until we know the sex.
@dancingnarwhal we used BabyName too - some of those names are ridiculous though
We have a running list of girl names that we love and no boy names, so this one will definitely be a boy. I can't reuse names from previous pregnancies though, so we start from scratch every time. UGH. My H has a boy name he loves (our brothers' middle names) that I hate so ... that's not going to work out.
We haven't talked names and won't until we hear the heartbeat and probably not until we know the sex. My DD was easy, I mentioned just a few boys and girls names I really liked before we knew the sex. He said no to some but never really commented other than that. We found out we were having a girl at the 20-week ultrasound and he immediately called our parents afterward saying things like, "it's a girl, and her name is Sutton!" ha... worked out for me!
Our boy was much harder to name. DH is the oldest of three boys and I swear every name I mentioned reminded him of someone he knew/disliked from their childhood... or one of them "wrestled" growing up so obvi that name was a sworn enemy or something. Either way, I think boy names are harder.
All of our names also end with an "n", so not that I'm 100% tied to doing that, I also don't want the 5th and final member of the fam to sound completely out of place when listing our names. I know, that's weird. I'm an overthinker.
I love talking names, but like several of you, DH doesn't see the point until after we find out the sex of the baby. Likely, we'll have difficulty agreeing on a boy name. DS is named Theodore Robert, and that's the only boy name we could agree on. When I was pregnant with DD, we chose one potential name per week and referred to baby by that name to see if it "felt right." DS was nearly 3 at the time and when we came to calling the baby Lucy for the week, he was sold. He refused to move on to a different name the next week. Fortunately that was one of our favorites as well.
The only thing that is certain is that regardless of sex, we'll have a family name as a middle, or a name that has significance to our family story.
Suggestions my 6 and 3 year old have made thus far: Waffle, Bacon John, St. Louis, Lucy 2.
@coastalmomma3 Love Waffle. My son named my daughter Monkey Juice while I was pregnant with her and was convinced that was really her name because everyone called her that after he said it.
@coastalmomma3 He does as a joke sometimes. He named her monkey juice after the Danimals yogurt drinks that have a monkey on the bottle. So she calls those monkey juices now which is cute
@claireloSC I love Sebastian! My husband and I can't agree on any boy names so we downloaded Kinder (as suggested above) and we only matched on two names. Josephine and Adeline so that's not helpful lol At least you have plenty of time. Is DD excited to have a sister?
@claireloSC this always happens to us! If we have a boy name, baby is a girl. If we have a girl name, baby is a boy. We have a ton of girl names this time around so this one is probably a boy. UGH.
Weirdly enough, I found most of the names I like by following this lady who makes felt pennants on Instagram @ eventidepennantco. They're super cute and tend to be less typical (but not ~*tReNdY*~) names.
@ladyk127 DD is SO excited, she kept screaming "We're having a girl!!!!". Bonus of the age difference is she really gets the whole process. @BourbonBiscuits Same thing happened to us last time! Had a boy name all ready to go, it was a girl and took me forever to convince DW of the name I wanted.
DD has a very classic name (like, 8th century) with a more popular nickname. So we're looking for other classic names but I don't love anything on the shortlist yet. Olympia (Pia for short) is growing on me but it's A LOT and we do have a longer last name too. We also have Fallon, Daphne, Evangeline, and DD's suggestion of Chrysanthemum (she has a flower name too). But not sure about any of those. I just knew with DD1's name and I want to feel the same.
Married DW 08.2013; AI 2x; IUI 6x; IUI #7 05.2015; DD born 2.2016 ; Reciprocal IVF FET #1 on 11.18.2020
@claireloSC I love flower names for girls! My good friend is Camellia (she doesn't do nicknames hah) and one of my husband's friends have girl named Calla (like the lily). I'm partial to Iris and Jasmine. But we have short Asian last name so that didn't work out.
@BourbonBiscuits - My favorite ridiculous suggestion it’s given us so far is Eggbert. We still haven’t picked a boy name yet so I keep telling my husband that’s what we’re going with if we can’t decide lol
@dancingnarwhal you just made me have a vivid flashback to a time in high school when my friends and I heard the name "Eggbertina" somewhere and thought it was the funniest thing ever and said we were going to give our future daughters that name. So for anyone out there struggling with a girl name, I offer that up as a solution!
So excited to see the name Lachlan come up. That is our boy name. Lachlan Alaric. I also loved the name Ellis, but that was going to be the boy name when I had my last babies (when I wasn't sure yet if boy or girls). Ended up with twin girls and that was with my Ex husband so I don't feel it right to use that name with my now husband! lol. My husband is Scottish so we wanted something from that culture.
For our girl name, we agreed on Adriel (pronounced add-ree-el). It is more supposed to be pronounced A-dree-el, but we like the softer beginning sound. Adriel Elora.
Me: 45yo, DH: 47yo 3 Daughters (singleton @27yo, ID Di/Di Twins @34yo) Protein S Deficiency (Blood Clotting Disorder), MTHFR & VIT D issue 5 MC's: Blighted Ovum-D&C @ 9wks; Natural MC @ 7wks; Blighted Ovum-D&C @ 9wks; MC boy-D&C @ 9wks & Chem PG in 2019 Tubes were tied after my Twins (and now I am old). Remarried and want to give my DH a baby!
IVF#1 OE June 2019 - ER 6/15/19, 24R, 21M, 20F, 7 6DBlasts Frozen for PGS Testing, RESULTS of PGS 4 abnormal girls, 2 abnormal boys, 1 indeterminate girl FET#1 OE August 23, 2019 (transferring 1 indeterminate girl & 1 abnormal boy) - BFN IVF#2 November 15, 2019 - ER 9R, 9M, 6F, 2 5dBlasts (fresh transfer) and 1 6DBlast frozen for PGS Testing, FRESH Transfer: November 20, 2019, 2 5-day blasts transferred!! BFP 8dp5dt on 11/27 - 12/2 on FRER, BETA #1 12/2 - 11.93. BETA #2 12/4: 4.41 ~CHEMICAL PG ******************Starting Donor Process June 2020: Egg Donor Cycle and Fresh Transfer of 1 embryo in Czech Republic - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19 October 2020. Split Cycle at UFC with a friend (Andrea) I met on the Bump who was also supposed to go to Prague too DE Retrieval9/26/2020, 26R, 24M, 12 split Cycle, 9 Fertilized + 1 "questionable", PRAYING FOR AT LEAST 5 BLASTS 10/1/2020: 4 5DBlasts (AA, BB, BC, BC), 10/2/2020: 3 6DBlasts (BB, BB, BC) FOR A TOTAL OF: 7 BLASTS!! THANK YOU GOD!! PGS RESULTS: 5 NORMALS! DAY 5: AA BOY, BB GIRL, BC BOY / DAY 6: BB GIRL, BC GIRL DE FETOctober 29, 2020 - CANCELED DUE TO FLUID IN LINING DE FET November 16th, 2020 (transferring an PGS normal Hatching AA Boy)
Well, I'm getting impatient for H to be ready to discuss names, so I'll post here to discuss with you all. For girls I like: Rosemary, Willa, Cordelia, or Pearl. For boys: Desmond, Ezra, or Milo. Middle will likely be a family name TBD.
@coastalmomma3 we’re like 95% set on Willa, love that name! I like your other choices too.
Anyone else struggling with a middle name? Both my family and H’s family always do family names for middle names, but there just isn’t one we want to use (mostly due to not wanting to honor someone on X side and have the equivalent person on Y side feel left out). Picking a middle name just because we like the sound of it doesn’t feel right to us either though, so we’re trying to come up with something significant but that isn’t explicitly naming in honor of anyone, and it’s tough!
DD wants to name baby Luna Rose if it's a girl. I loved it, then realized it's a local candle companies name 😅 We agreed to make the middle name rose instead of Marie and it works out well because it's my favourite aunts name. So we are still thinking Freya Rose or Henry Michael. I keep wavering on Henry but MH really loves it so I think we will stick with that.
@the_most_happy We gave my daughter my middle name. I took my husband's last name when we married, and the kids have his last name. It was my way of passing something down to her.
We've also been looking at middle names that have meaning to us as a couple. For example, if we don't use Pearl as a fn, we may use it as a middle. It's a reference to a poem that my husband wrote for me while we were in college. We've also considered June as a middle name in a nod to our anniversary month.
Checking back in, we found out through the NIPT we are having a girl. We have a few names we like but leaning toward Emilia, just can’t think of a middle name.
I love Emilia (and she's one of my favorite characters in Shakespeare ), but I had a student that totally ruined it for my own use. With a multi syllable first name I'd probably go for a shorter middle. Suggesting....
@coastalmomma3 my sister also recommended Rose so I’ve added it to my small list. I was thinking Grace but SIL is a bit rude and said it’s “basic” and then started coming up with other first names. I just sat there, afterward told DH that she was rude and he agreed. But other than her negative attitude DH didn’t seem to care for Grace so I’ll run Rose by him.
Re: Great Big Name Thread
We're still stumped on a boy name, and I ~feel~ like this is a boy so that's not good!
We have a running list of girl names that we love and no boy names, so this one will definitely be a boy. I can't reuse names from previous pregnancies though, so we start from scratch every time. UGH. My H has a boy name he loves (our brothers' middle names) that I hate so ... that's not going to work out.
Our boy was much harder to name. DH is the oldest of three boys and I swear every name I mentioned reminded him of someone he knew/disliked from their childhood... or one of them "wrestled" growing up so obvi that name was a sworn enemy or something. Either way, I think boy names are harder.
All of our names also end with an "n", so not that I'm 100% tied to doing that, I also don't want the 5th and final member of the fam to sound completely out of place when listing our names. I know, that's weird. I'm an overthinker.
The only thing that is certain is that regardless of sex, we'll have a family name as a middle, or a name that has significance to our family story.
Suggestions my 6 and 3 year old have made thus far: Waffle, Bacon John, St. Louis, Lucy 2.
At least you have plenty of time. Is DD excited to have a sister?
Weirdly enough, I found most of the names I like by following this lady who makes felt pennants on Instagram @ eventidepennantco. They're super cute and tend to be less typical (but not ~*tReNdY*~) names.
@BourbonBiscuits Same thing happened to us last time! Had a boy name all ready to go, it was a girl and took me forever to convince DW of the name I wanted.
DD has a very classic name (like, 8th century) with a more popular nickname. So we're looking for other classic names but I don't love anything on the shortlist yet. Olympia (Pia for short) is growing on me but it's A LOT and we do have a longer last name too. We also have Fallon, Daphne, Evangeline, and DD's suggestion of Chrysanthemum (she has a flower name too). But not sure about any of those. I just knew with DD1's name and I want to feel the same.
For our girl name, we agreed on Adriel (pronounced add-ree-el). It is more supposed to be pronounced A-dree-el, but we like the softer beginning sound. Adriel Elora.
3 Daughters (singleton @27yo, ID Di/Di Twins @34yo)
Protein S Deficiency (Blood Clotting Disorder), MTHFR & VIT D issue
5 MC's: Blighted Ovum-D&C @ 9wks; Natural MC @ 7wks; Blighted Ovum-D&C @ 9wks; MC boy-D&C @ 9wks & Chem PG in 2019
Tubes were tied after my Twins (and now I am old). Remarried and want to give my DH a baby!
IVF#1 OE June 2019 - ER 6/15/19, 24R, 21M, 20F, 7 6DBlasts Frozen for PGS Testing,
RESULTS of PGS 4 abnormal girls, 2 abnormal boys, 1 indeterminate girl
FET#1 OE August 23, 2019 (transferring 1 indeterminate girl & 1 abnormal boy) - BFN
IVF#2 November 15, 2019 - ER 9R, 9M, 6F, 2 5dBlasts (fresh transfer) and 1 6DBlast frozen for PGS Testing,
FRESH Transfer: November 20, 2019, 2 5-day blasts transferred!!
BFP 8dp5dt on 11/27 - 12/2 on FRER, BETA #1 12/2 - 11.93. BETA #2 12/4: 4.41 ~CHEMICAL PG
******************Starting Donor Process
June 2020: Egg Donor Cycle and Fresh Transfer of 1 embryo in Czech Republic - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19
October 2020. Split Cycle at UFC with a friend (Andrea) I met on the Bump who was also supposed to go to Prague too
DE Retrieval 9/26/2020, 26R, 24M, 12 split Cycle, 9 Fertilized + 1 "questionable", PRAYING FOR AT LEAST 5 BLASTS
10/1/2020: 4 5DBlasts (AA, BB, BC, BC), 10/2/2020: 3 6DBlasts (BB, BB, BC) FOR A TOTAL OF: 7 BLASTS!! THANK YOU GOD!!
PGS RESULTS: 5 NORMALS! DAY 5: AA BOY, BB GIRL, BC BOY / DAY 6: BB GIRL, BC GIRL
DE FET October 29, 2020 - CANCELED DUE TO FLUID IN LINING
DE FET November 16th, 2020 (transferring an PGS normal Hatching AA Boy)
Anyone else struggling with a middle name? Both my family and H’s family always do family names for middle names, but there just isn’t one we want to use (mostly due to not wanting to honor someone on X side and have the equivalent person on Y side feel left out). Picking a middle name just because we like the sound of it doesn’t feel right to us either though, so we’re trying to come up with something significant but that isn’t explicitly naming in honor of anyone, and it’s tough!
We agreed to make the middle name rose instead of Marie and it works out well because it's my favourite aunts name. So we are still thinking Freya Rose or Henry Michael.
I keep wavering on Henry but MH really loves it so I think we will stick with that.
We've also been looking at middle names that have meaning to us as a couple. For example, if we don't use Pearl as a fn, we may use it as a middle. It's a reference to a poem that my husband wrote for me while we were in college. We've also considered June as a middle name in a nod to our anniversary month.
Emilia June
Emilia Pearl