My daughter is three months old and I just cannot get used to her name. While I was pregnant with her I had this belief that the perfect name would just come to me as that’s what happened with her older sister.
This just didn’t happen. Me and dh couldn’t agree on a name and in the end we compromised on one that we both liked but neither loved. Subsequently he has gone off the name we gave her but still couldn’t think of anything else.
That perfect name has now come to me and I can’t see her as anything else! Dh also really likes it and I have massive regret that I didn’t consider it before she was born. The name I want to give her can actually be considered as a nickname for her current name but I don’t think it’s a natural derivative so am unsure of just using it as a nickname.
I know it can be changed on her birth certificate up until one but would I be stupid to do that? Part of me thinks she will grow into it and I’ll get used to it… but the other part of me thinks I’ll forever regret it if I don’t change it.