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I know it sounds odd, but...........................

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morethemerrier · 17/09/2010 21:34

where you ever 'given' your babies name shortly after birth?

What I mean is with my first son there were circumstances that meant we knew he was a boy, and his birth may not have had a great outcome,on a very important day I was faced with a diificult decision and saw the name Alexaner no less than 3 times. We had a positive outcome so named our first son Alexander.

Our second son came 8 years later and the moment I saw him the name William popped up, having not been 'on the list', we ploughed on with our original choises,but youve guessed it,he ended up being called William!

Now, my strongest feeling came after a natural home birth with my daughter, and I can quite honestly say that having had a beautiful birth when I was taking her upstairs to bed being only an hour or so old, the last few steps the name Ella clearly was 'given' to me. By who,or what,I dont know, but I can only say that we then spent the next week trying to find a name that suited and each time I came back to Ella.

This was never on 'my list', and finally we settled on Eleanor Rose(my husband wanted a formal element), or 'Ella' as she is and always would have been.

Now, I cannot comment on the the origins but having subsequently looked up the name it actually means, the gift of beauty bestowed by fairies at birth,a beautiful fairy maiden!

So I wondered if anyone else had been, 'given' a name,because for me it was a definately powerful and defining moment,albeit on the stairs!

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morethemerrier · 17/09/2010 21:36

Should have said HOME birth!

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smilingserenely · 17/09/2010 22:27

with dd1 we were at church the day of our engagement and there was a sermon titled as far as bethany . i turned to my husband to be and said if we ever have a daughter we'll call her bethany. just over a year later dd1 arrived and she was bethany
ds4 was going to be hayden from 20 weeks on but as soon as he arrived the name gabriel popped into my head and he could be nothing else.

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Marjee · 17/09/2010 22:40

When I was pg dh and I could never agree on names. One day the name Oscar came into my head from nowhere and I loved it. I asked dh and he loved it too but we said we'd wait until dc was born (we didn't know we were having a boy and couldn't agree on a girls name either) to see what name suited. As soon as he was born I looked at him and he just looked like an Oscar, it suits him perfectly and I can't imagine him being called anything else. It feels like he told me his name before he was born as strange as that sounds

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mumblecrumble · 17/09/2010 22:49

We were pregnant and randomly reading or sitting or somthing. Emily came into my head and DH lovedit. She was EMily and that was it. We didn;t even know she was a girl.

Totally blieve it.

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BikeRunSki · 17/09/2010 22:57

I have always quite liked name Samuel. When I was pg my father in law was researching his family tree and found 5 generations of Samuel Surnames prior to his own father, all born a few miles from where DS was eventually born (even though the family had moved away in the interim). I had DS name stuck in my mind from the on = about 14 weeks pg - we didn't know he was a boy, but we never agreed on a girls name.

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LynetteScavo · 17/09/2010 22:57

AS soon as DS1 was handed to me I said "He looks like Daniel" (That Elton John song had jsut been playing on the radio)

DH refused to call him Daniel.

When I was pregnant with DD the name Jayden kept popping into my head, then DS2 , who was only 2 kept walking around saying "Jayden, Jayden".

I just couldn't do it, however.

With DS2, he was going to be called Hugo, but when he was born, he just didn't look like a Hugo, and by the time DH came back during visiting hours, a name had just come to me, and it stuck.

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KernowMother · 18/09/2010 23:13

Yep, with DS2, his name popped into my head after the 20wk scan. I didn't particularly like it, had never had it on any names list and in all honesty thought it sounded a bit too posh.

It wouldn't go away. When he was born we actually named him one of the other names on our list ... but while feeding him, he kept looking up at me and I swear he was telling me that was not his name.

DH came to hospital on day three and I had to say, we can't call him what we thought, he wants to be called the other name. DH thought I was a bit mad, but went along with it.

Low and behold, the boy is so right for his name it's unbelievable.

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Psammead · 19/09/2010 07:49

I found DD's name on the internet. Had searched and searched, many differeng sites, putting in our criteria for names to search for etc etc. Then one time, having again failed to find something nice, I glanced at the bottom of one site and there was a little section with a randomly generated name. It said 'have you considered Lucia?' I hadn't, I did, it's now her name!

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