Making Decisions for your Pending Arrival

haha that’s funny about how you chose Eric! My partner and I canNOT agree on this topic. Either him or I have had bad experiences with someone with the name that the other person likes!

My husband and I just talked about it in the car one day. We threw around names we liked, family names, figured out how it would sound in both English and Dutch, and stuck it all together 😛

I kinda feel the same way though my span wasn’t as long, more like 5 years but it was different with more knowledge.

We had such a hard time with names! Gus (William Augustus) wasn’t named until he was 4 days old. 🙂

I had my daughter late in life, but still didn’t feel fully prepared for her actual arrival.

I knew what my son’s name would be almost 20 years before I had him. Really. 🙂

Thanks so much for the great info!

baby’s due July 4th and we’re set for a boy’s name, but stuck on a girl’s name! we cannot agree… hoping we find something soon.

I actually knew all my kids names before they were born, my first I knew even though I didn’t know that he was going to be a he yet LOL. I just knew in my heart I was having a boy and Gabriel Michael was going to be his name.

We have a name for our baby, but don’t plan to share it until he’s born. I just don’t want to hear unsolicited opinions about the name that may change my mind about it. However, my husband was saying the name in front of our girls the other day, and apparently my 4yo caught on and has been calling the baby by his name. I keep telling her she’s wrong and telling her other names, but it’s not working.

I never found out the sex, so my nurseries were very generic. I had them completed before arrival, unfortunately, the boys rarely slept in their own rooms so I basically had lovely laundry folding rooms! Names? I spent almost no time on names. When I was 38 weeks with my first bio child, I met a wonderful Scottish woman at Target, and she helped me pick out a bouncer. Her newborn was named Connall and I immediately fell in love with the name. I knew James would be the middle name for a boy, since my father, named James, had died that same year. When I delivered my baby boy, I was asked what his name was and I yelled CONNALL JAMES! With my other son, I had nothing until I was in labor. I liked the name Cullen and we chose Murphy because it was one of those days where Murphy’s Law seemed to be our life. Again, when the doctor showed us our baby boy, I said CULLEN MURPHY. The very next year Twilight came out and we get teased constantly!