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Getting waaaaay ahead of myself here I know! BUT...........

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ready4motherhood · 12/11/2006 12:22

Just wondered if anyone else is like me and DH and have been thinking about baby names?? We can't agree on girls, but boys we find easy... we could have a bunch of boys and agree on every name!!

I know I shouldn't be thinking of names when I am not even pg, but I can't help myself!!Anyone got any cool name ideas?? Promise I won't steal any of them I'd love to hear what other people are thinking... or am I the only one mental enough to think this far ahead??

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largeginandtonic · 12/11/2006 16:18

I meant 4 boys and 1 girl, good lord was that my subconcious trying to tell me something about this next baby! Eeeeek, my daughter will not be happy.

foundintranslation · 12/11/2006 16:18

We already have the names (boy and girl) for our not-yet-conceived (well, in fact conceived-twice-and-miscarried-twice ) second child more or less picked out... keeping them to ourselves though, sorry

largeginandtonic · 12/11/2006 16:16

My poor children were very neglected, the dts were lucky and had a neme as soon as they were born, dd had a name soon after but the last 2 ds's were about 6 weeks with no name. I say its never to early to start talking about the names!
Im due #6 in may and am thinking already, need a girl really as i have 5 boys and only 1 girl. Girl names are easy but im running out of boys!

I have a Samuel Joseph, Jacob Henry, Seraphim Tabitha, Jonah James and Hugo Rafferty Peter. Seraphim just gets called Phin and Hugo is always Hugs. I quite like Theodore for a boy but i know he would be called Teddy, then id have a Hugs and Teddy to yell in for tea

burstingbug · 12/11/2006 15:45

Ds1 is George Monty John and Ds2 is Joseph Benjamin Samuel.

katyjo · 12/11/2006 15:10

Helen what lovely names! I loved the idea of calling a little girl Maddy and I think Hugo is a fantastic name.

helenhismadwife · 12/11/2006 14:59

dh and I talked about names we liked before I was pregnant, we loved Madeline for a girl all the way through toward the end we also liked Beatrice but as soon as she was born we knew it had to be Madeline. For a boy we had Hugo William, and that was the same with 2nd pregnancy we couldnt agree a girls name at all then just a few days before she was born we decided we both liked Isabelle. So now we have Madeline Daisy and Isabelle Rose. Still love Hugo though and for another girl Ameile

GILL74 · 12/11/2006 14:22

We each made our own list of names we liked from baby names book. Swapped papers and scored out the ones we didn't like from list and ended up with a mixture of names we both could agree with, Innes was included in the final list, thankfully.

cece · 12/11/2006 14:07

My top tip is imagine standing shouting it in the park/street....

GILL74 · 12/11/2006 13:48

Just wanted to let you know my ds is called Innes (scottish variation of angus) goes great with surname.

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ready4motherhood · 12/11/2006 13:29

I love Hamish!!! We are not Scottish so it would be silly for us! But it a lovely name!!

I told DH that some names might not suit the baby when born. He doesn't believe in that so I will be showing him your post as proof that it does happen!!! Thanks

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katyjo · 12/11/2006 13:19

best to start talking about it now, we started talking about it at the beginning of pregnancy and we were still having trouble 9 months later. Although we did have a short list before the birth, none of them suited him, so had to come up with something else!! It is such fun trying to choose a name, my fav for a girl is Mia but didn't go with our surname and we had a boy called him Hamish (we are scottish).
XXX

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ready4motherhood · 12/11/2006 12:52

No, we are ttc our first child... so as you say we are thinking about it a lot!!

George is such a strong name!! I like it. But it wouldn't work with our surname.

I love Scarlett, but DH doesn't like it!! Don't think he'll budge either!

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BIGlilBUBU · 12/11/2006 12:29

oooo sorry ment to say those names not thoughs...

BIGlilBUBU · 12/11/2006 12:28

Ds is called George, id like another boy and a girl. Bobby for the boy and Lila for the girl. Love thoughs names...

LadyTophamHatt · 12/11/2006 12:26

Have you gots children already??

I think it perfectly normal to talk about names when your pre-kids. It's such a big thing that it's impossible not to think about it.
I know I thought about it alot.

We didn't talk about names without being PG again after DS1 was born though IYSWIM.

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