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 21:34
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