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What do you do when you can't decide?

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mortifiedmama · 27/12/2018 16:51

DH and I have fairly different views on names and are struggling to find one we both like, let alone one we both love!

So do we go for one we both think is 'ok' or pick one that one of us loves and the other dislikes?

There's no middle ground and we've exhausted all lists and books. Literally been through thousands and thousands of names.

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Onemorefireball · 27/12/2018 19:10

Those are quite different names aren't they? Imo Caroline is quite boring, not too keen on Iris but like Eden.

If you were both ok with Poppy what about Daisy or Willow? I know Poppys with those as sibling names.

Crimbobimbo · 27/12/2018 19:05

I got to the final say. I did the hard work being pregnant and giving birth, so if we didn't agree I got the last word.
Probably not a popular opinion on here.

OliveOrTwist · 27/12/2018 19:05

We waited until the baby was born Smile

MikeUniformMike · 27/12/2018 19:02

Caroline is lovely. Carrie is sweet. Eden will be called Ede and IMO will date badly. Iris makes me think of a very old lady.

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mortifiedmama · 27/12/2018 17:54

My favourite is Caroline, which DH cannot stand. He likes Iris and Eden. I'm meh about both. The closest we've come to agreeing was Poppy, but a friend had a girl a few weeks ago and called her Poppy, we now won't use that. We both quite like Ada, but neither are in love with it.

DS was really easy, we had a boys name from before we even planned kids!

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happytoday73 · 27/12/2018 17:47

my husband and i had very different views on names....for us this worked: a short list of names that one parent loves (& other could live with) and see what baby looks like name wise on arrival......
In reality after long hard labour husband let me pick first born from short list (middle name already agreed which was his dads) and i was happy for my husband to pick our second off short list.... thought only fair!

MrsFoxPlus4 · 27/12/2018 17:35

What sort of names do you like? Maybe we could suggest somr

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