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Do you still love your DC's name

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Fifibluebell · 13/11/2013 13:39

Or would you pick something different if you could go back?

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notso · 13/11/2013 14:10

The one I love most is the one I was least sure of, it was DH's first choice and I was in shock after a very fast unassisted birth so just went with it!
DS2 I love although I always shorten it despite not liking the short version whilst pg.
DD and DS1, I love because they are my DC's names although if I was having them now They would be called different names.

Thurlow · 13/11/2013 14:08

I like it, but more because she has grown into it. She's called by a shortened version that I never really thought about much before she was born, I kept talking about the full name even though I knew she'd be known by the short version, god knows why I did that.

I couldn't imagine her being called anything else now.

Willabywallaby · 13/11/2013 14:08

Yes still love my boys names, only ones I know with them, but not unusual.

Bowlersarm · 13/11/2013 14:04

I would change one of my DSes names. I liked his name at the time, but if I was naming him now I wouldn't chose it. There are one or two popular names I wish we had used-we were so keen on having something not too overused that we dismissed them, but they are lovely names hence the popularity!

ctrlaltdel · 13/11/2013 14:01

I do really like DD's name but I still prefer my first choice name which we couldn't use as it was BIL's (now ex) girlfriend's name at the time DD was born. I wouldn't change it now but I still wish I'd chosen it at the time instead.

Meringue33 · 13/11/2013 13:55

Yes! 10 mo and still love it. Everyone comments on how unusual and lovely it is. I am tempted to lie about it sometimes as don't want it to become a really popular name by word of mouth!

BobaFetaCheese · 13/11/2013 13:53

I love ds1 name.
Ds2 no, doesnt suit him. He's 3 months and we've changed it once already, nothing suits him because he's an Old Man Baby!

Just hope he grows into it.

Cataline · 13/11/2013 13:51

I really love my Ds's name. Still don't know anyone else with the name and it's so very 'him'! Grin

Mim78 · 13/11/2013 13:50

I still love the name of my DD, 5.

BitOutOfPractice · 13/11/2013 13:42

Still love both of mine and they really seem to suit them.

Interesting isn't it? Do you think people grow up to suit their name? Or do we instinctively give them a name that will suit the person they will become?

Anyway, I would pick both names again

CrocodileScream · 13/11/2013 13:41

Still love them! DS' name is the best boys name in the world. With DD I might be a little more confident with going against the grain than I was then but I love her name and I'm glad we went with it.

Middleagedmotheroftwo · 13/11/2013 13:40

Neither of my DDs have my first choice of names - like everything else in a marriage, they were a compromise.

Having said that, I dn't dislike them - but they are not what I would have picked left to my own devices.

SPsDoesntLikeChaffingFishnets · 13/11/2013 13:40

I still love it and it suits him though he does get called a different similar name by accident.

Rosencrantz · 13/11/2013 13:40

The name become the child. I love my child, and their name is the linguistic manifestation of them. I couldn't not love the name, the two are too hard to separate now.

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