Baby girl has arrived...

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bradybratpack · 25/06/2016 06:34

And we have to finalise her name by tomorrow (hospital regs here!)

She arrived on my mum's birthday so I thought it would be nice to somehow honour my mum with her middle name? This is slightly complicated by the fact that mum strongly dislikes her name (Angela), and my DN has Angela as her MN, so we thought a similar but not identical MN might work? Would love your thoughts...

Eloise Angeline
Eloise Angelica
Or avoiding grandma's name entirely and going with:
Eloise Beatrice

Opinions very gratefully received!

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1horatio · 26/06/2016 17:19

Eloise Beatrice Angelica is nice!
I personally think Eloise Angelice Beatrice flows better, but it's really lovely the other way as well :)

BretonTop · 26/06/2016 21:33

What did you decide in the end OP?

1horatio · 26/06/2016 21:36

Eloise Beatrice Angelica is lovely!
Eloise Angelica Beatrice is also really nice.

1horatio · 26/06/2016 21:38

Darn it... What the heck did I do here? Time for bed, I think.
Anyhow, all these options are lovely.

ProfessorPickles · 26/06/2016 21:40

Looking forward to hearing what you went with
Congratulations!

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bradybratpack · 26/06/2016 22:30

The birth certificate clerk took pity on us and agreed to pretend that she'd 'misplaced' the paperwork on order for us to be discharged from hospital without filing the name! We now have until tomorrow (Monday) lunchtime to go back with the finalized name. In the meantime, we're home and two very overexcited little boys are all over their new baby sister... she'll get used to noise and chaos quickly!

DH and I are still flip-flopping between Eloise Angelica and Eloise Beatrice Angelica (he likes one, I prefer the other) so please keep the opinions coming!

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calzone · 26/06/2016 22:34

Go with the 2 middle names.

It honours your family but she won't ever use them all until she gets married.

Frazzledmum123 · 26/06/2016 23:08

I wanted to honour my man with s middle name for my daughter but wasn't keen on her name so went with something I preferred. I've always regretted it to be honest. They only go by the first name the majority of the time anyway so personally I prefer the very first option xx

Frazzledmum123 · 26/06/2016 23:09

Stupid auto spell, that should have said nan not man!!!

1horatio · 27/06/2016 17:45

I personally feel like you should absolutely go with Eloise Beatrice Angelica. Your DH gets the name he loves and you get to honour your DM, it honestly sounds like the perfect solution to me. And if your children have their dad's last name honouring your family with a middle name is just really nice. Plus, even if that's not the case, Angelica is a really nice name! :)

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