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oh, crap. think we've guven dd the wrong name. or poss just sleep-deprived fretting....

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phdlife · 18/05/2009 20:14

ever since forever, dh and i wanted to name a dd M. But when I was 37 weeks and we were looking for boy names I found the name A for a girl, and thought, that's it. dh liked the name but tbh we were so wound up about boys' names we didn't really have a proper convo about it.

When they asked us in hospital, dh said, you tell them, and I said A, so A she has been fpr 5 weeks now.

But from 1 week on I have intermittently thought she should've been M, mostly when i am stupidly tired (as now!). Partly I don't like that A seems to be more common than i thought. Partly it suddenly seems to me that A's are blonde, which dd never will be, amd M's are dark. Partly i feel i cheated dh out of using his fave name at last.

soon as i began worrying I talked to him about it and he said we could tack M on as a second middle name, so then we could use it if we wanted. but I don't see that we would. If she was going to be called M which is no shorter and sounds similar to A, rhen why nit just name her M?

dh thought after 1 week it;d be too weird to say we'd changed our minds and part of me agrees. but part of me has a weird superstitious conviction that Names Matter and it's important to get it right. how do i do that when my brain is fried? wwyd?

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MoChan · 18/05/2009 20:29

You must change it if you're not happy with it. That's all I really have to say. You have to be happy with it.

MmeLindt · 18/05/2009 20:22

Change it now if you really are unhappy with it, before it gets really difficult.

Isn't there a time period after the birth that you are allowed to vhange the name? A year or 6 months? Sure I read that somewhere

thisisyesterday · 18/05/2009 20:19

i don't think it's a problem to change her name now if you want to.

decide which one you really, really want and then change it if it's M

tigana · 18/05/2009 20:18

My sister was called by her middle name until she decided in secondary school to go by her first name. Family call her by her middle name, all her friends call her by second. She survives.

FIL and his 2 brothers are all called by their middle names ( their mother gave in to family pressure with 1st names, chose the middle names she liked...then called them by middlenames )

does any of that help at all..?

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