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What would you call your baby if your dh had no say?

91 replies

magicmelons · 18/08/2011 17:19

Dh ruins all of my baby name plans here is my list if he had no say for a Ds I would have a Hugo or a Jesse we mostly agree on girls names but I love Fleur and he despises it.

What would you call your baby if you had free rein?

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Huffythetantrumslayer · 18/08/2011 20:17

Dh vetoed every name I came up with. Git. He came up with ONE name! Which I did like and is now ds name. I did sneak one of my names in as a middle name though Grin

MrsRhettButler · 18/08/2011 20:08

Desiree and Simone :(

I'm still grieving Desiree, dd2 due in two weeks and we still can't find a name we agree on!

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 18/08/2011 20:04

Loving Atticus and Horatio. :)

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 20:01

I've just shown DP this thread....

He actually said "tell you what, look at him when he's born and see what name comes to you and call him that" I said "and if I still want to call him Caspar?" And he said "then call him that"!!! Shock

MN I love you!

Happygomummy · 18/08/2011 20:00

DS could have been Adair.....

tassisssss · 18/08/2011 19:58

I liked Toby and Angus but ds doesn't

Also liked Freya but it was silly with our surname

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 19:58

And I love Cecil and Cecilia. :)

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 19:57

Desserts That's what I'm worried about. :( I don't hate the name, it's Nathan btw. It's just the more I hear it the less I like it.

Then I start getting angry because I keep thinking well this pregnancy has been hellish the least he could do is give me a decent say on the name. MIL agrees!

twentypoundsover · 18/08/2011 19:53

for boys:

Crispin
Hugo
Thurstan
Siegfried
Torquil
Atticus
Horatio

for girls ... I got my way :)

PotteringAlong · 18/08/2011 19:50

Maggie. One day ... :)

DessertsInReverse · 18/08/2011 19:47

pink4ever sebastian , tristan and christian were also vetoed by dh for ds4

but i managed to sneak an equally wonderful name past dh as he missed the birth ds arrived too quickly

i also would have loved dd4 to be agatha but dh used the words over my dead body . he wouldn't even consider cecilia as an alternative to cecily ,he just kept singing the blasted simon and garfunkel song but now he loves and wonders why we didn't use it Angry

schrodinger don't compromise on a name you hate i did this with dd4 as dh vetoed everything i suggested , it caused no end of arguments which festered until after i 'd called her baby for 9 months. i loathed her name that much , dh finally agreed to a compromise and we changed her name . although i now love her name i still feel lingering resentment towards dh for the manner in which he completely ignored my feelings and foisted a name i hated on our dd . choosing a name you hate will only cause heartache for alll concerned .

superjobee · 18/08/2011 19:46

i liked esme for the bc, emmy as a nn but nooo :( but i did say no to everything he came away with, he choose a boys i liked and we settled on a girls, luckily its a DS we are having as i was uncertain on our girls name as i liked erin and esme so much

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 19:39

Didn't sound harsh at all. :)

And I really have no idea, it seems I can't compromise on any other name as anything he likes I hate as they are all far too common or strange.

I mean, there's been Jesus, Zeus and every bloody Greek name you can think of. Angry And he told me he would get bullied for Caspar!

Exact words, "you can have it as a middle name". I just don't know how to compromise properly with him as his suggestions are either so bland or surreal.... :(

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magicmelons · 18/08/2011 19:28

Didn't mean that to be as harsh as it sounds Schro Blush

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magicmelons · 18/08/2011 19:27

Super I LOVE Esme, its my cousins name though although nobody calls her it they use a nn instead. It would definitely be on my list Sad. I wouldn't associate it with Twilight not like Edward or Bella.

Schrodinger why are you compromising with a name you don't like, that's not a compromise. We compromised on DDs name, chosen by dh after she was born, really wasn't sure about it at first but love it now.

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potbellyqueen · 18/08/2011 19:14

DS - Valentine and DD - Tallulah. Clearly I shouldn't even be allowed to name the pets on my own.

TidyDancer · 18/08/2011 19:06

For a DD, it would've been Clementine or Sunny. The former he believes to be pretentious (he is clearly wrong Angry) and the latter doesn't go with his surname (we will be getting married so gave the LOs his name so we could all be the same one day).

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 19:02

Trillian, your name just makes me want to answer everything with 42. Hmm

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 19:00

Trillian - My DP wanted to call DS JESUS... Fucking seriously!

Us women should choose the names. :o

pamplemousserose · 18/08/2011 19:00

Merlin and Isadora

TrillianAstra · 18/08/2011 18:57

Some lovely awful names on here (perhaps us women should never choose names alone)

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rachel234 · 18/08/2011 18:51

Some lovely names on here (perhas us women should choose names alone) - I particularly love Cecily, Cillian, Rufus and Thaddeus!

superjobee · 18/08/2011 18:48

ha! DP hates me for this because im the one saying no to every single name he came away with!! poor bugger we spent forever and ended up with a nice normal name for this fat baby :) i hate almost all baby names..

only names i wasnt allowed off my lists were:

frances
brodie
callan
edward

and for girls

natalie
erin
emmy
esme
sinead

pink4ever · 18/08/2011 18:47

Ds1-Tristan,christian or sebastian
dd-Agatha,cecelia,clodagh or clothilde
ds2-cillian!-cant believe someone else on here wanted it!

DD would have been Aoife(which we both loved) if it hadnt been for inlaws deliberately mispronouncing itAngry

SchrodingersMew · 18/08/2011 18:42

I'm fuming about this actually!

I've had a horrid pregnancy, in and out hospital constantly and he's just sat on his frigging laptop designing and playing video games the whole time.....

Yet we have a name planned that he likes and I don't. Angry

Love Cecily btw!