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Original poster

To want to be pregnant again so I can choose a new baby name

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:22

I keep looking at the Baby Names thread and it's making me want another so that I can legitimately get excited about baby names again. DS is 11 months old and I'm not convinced that we need such a small gap (and that I can cope with another so soon). However I'm already picking out more names for boys and girls. This is a ridiculous reason to want another baby, isn't it?

It doesn't help that three close friends are pregnant again.

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WorraLiberty · 10/08/2012 23:24

Yes

Get a hamster

Grin
LindyHemming · 10/08/2012 23:24

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ColourMeWithChaos · 10/08/2012 23:25

One of my friends says I've got lots of kids because I'm so indecisive and wanted to use all my favourite names.

curiousgeorgie · 10/08/2012 23:26

Maybe you're looking in baby names because subconsciously you want another baby... Not wanting another baby just because you're looking in baby names Wink

AgentZigzag · 10/08/2012 23:26

It's a good a reason as any Grin

Can you tell us any of the names?

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:26

I don't want any pets, thank you for the suggestion though.

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:32

Well, I really like Claudia, Cecilia, Elizabeth, Agnes, Rosalind for girls. For boys, I really like Alexander, Charles, Hugh, Johannes. There are lots of other names I like but we were quite late in our "circle" to have a DC so were used by people close enough that I would think it strange to use them as well. Perhaps you're right, I do want another baby.

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WorraLiberty · 10/08/2012 23:32

Not even an ant farm?

You could use up quite a few names with one of those.

BertieBotts · 10/08/2012 23:33

Write a novel! Great way to use up names.

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:34

I feel itchy just thinking about ants. So no. But thank you anyway.

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GnocchiNineDoors · 10/08/2012 23:35

Name your shoes?

I keep thinking of baby names even thogh dd is only 7.5mo and we wont be ttc for another 3/4 years.

WorraLiberty · 10/08/2012 23:36

Lol at 'name your shoes'!!!

Sorry but I wouldn't even name a pair of crocs Agnes Blush

The other names are nice though.

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:37

If I named my shoes it would make me sad to chuck them out. I would have a house full of broken heels and nowhere to put anything.

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mothmedalisnotaverbmagnet · 10/08/2012 23:40

Me too, I've had to ban myself from looking at babynames. I have a whole family planned out - just need an extra ten years and a partner.

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:41

I also like Francis and Oscar for boys. And Ingrid and Hannah for girls. Do you really not like Agnes Worra? Neither does my DH, it's such a pity.

Can you give women's shoes boys names?

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kilmuir · 10/08/2012 23:43

YABVU.

GnocchiNineDoors · 10/08/2012 23:44

You chuck your shoes out? Shock at the thought.

Maybe name al of dcs cuddly toys?

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:45

I do when they break Gnocchi. And can't be fixed by the cobblers.

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:53

Why am I being unreasonable, Kilmuir? I am sure I am but need it explained to me.

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WorraLiberty · 10/08/2012 23:56

No there's nothing to like about Agnes...not in the past, not now and not ever!

Perhaps I'm an Agnephobe? Grin

kilmuir · 10/08/2012 23:58

now you know you are being silly. you can't create a life just because you want to chose a baby name. get a doll or make up a kinky name for your other half.

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CruCru · 10/08/2012 23:59

Perhaps. It could be shortened to Aggie. Do you like that better?

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CruCru · 11/08/2012 00:00

Well I do see your point Kilmuir.

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1944girl · 11/08/2012 00:04

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BreakOutTheKaraoke · 11/08/2012 00:05

I don't ever want more children. I do, however,want to be 5/6 months pregnant, name a child, and have that first 2 weeks with a tiny scrunched up little baby. Any way I can have both? Fake pregnancy bump maybe?