To announce our babies name over Christmas dinner

[BJacks86]

Just is it unreasonable/disrespectful feel it will be a fun way to tell a lot of the family when they are together.

my family would be happy and my brother and SIL wouldn't see the baby till we think Easter - so thought it would be nice, make them feel more included - my kids are the only kids in my side of the family

Err, are you sure that your brother and SIL aren't TTC? Because, they might be finding Christmas difficult enough, without making Christmas lunch all about the baby. As long as you're sure they won't be upset, crack on but - as others have said - be prepared to receive frank opinions.

That's a bit of a stretch XXcstatic

It's a lovely name, but just mentioning it has opened up the puns. I'm sure that your family is far more polite than a bunch of MNers having a festive drink though

Officially naming a baby before birth can be a bit abstract to family and friends who the baby isn't tangible to yet. I found it a bit odd when a friend referred to her bump by the intended name, as it wasn't a fully fledged person to me, just a large abdomen- obviously completely different to her! When she went on to become 42wks pg, then went in to be induced, then that took some time, it became obvious that in the next few hours there was going to be a message to announce that baby Jane had arrived and the only the weight was left to be the only information not known in advance.

It would be awkward if you did change your mind after publicising the name. I'm always paronoid about people getting the sex wrong from scans. I have known someone be misinformed at a scan mid-pregnancy, but updated correctly at further scans.

Are you naming her after the Basque separatists?

very weird thing to do

Don't you need to wait until the baby is born and see what name suits them??? What if she doesn't look like "Etta"??

It is nice idea to include her on her first pre Christmas

Absolutely. I wasn't included in anything for my first 'pre Christmas' (which is definitely a thing), and I've had to have years of therapy as a result, as I feel that my parents just didn't want me enough

Pretty sure they aren't trying they got married in August - and they are planning on settling back in the UK in a couple of years and have said they don't want kids before then.

Obviously expect the criticism of any name ever because everyone on here has an opinion on every name - ever.

Thank you for the well wishes for the birth, looking forward to meeting her :) in the event she turns out to be a he it will certainly be a fun story!

@BJacks86 so many people have said they advise not telling people until after the baby is born so that it's too late for them to give an opinion in the hope of changing your mind. You haven't responded to this at all - I just wanted to make sure you had seen it.

As I've said previously, I haven't changed my mind at birth with my 2 DD's so would be surprised if I did, and only 5 adults of my family I was going to tell - not everyone I've ever met.

I know my family will react positively - the baby will be born in a week and a half. I've had bad reactions to my 2 DDs names and still used them :)

You've obviously decided to do this, OP, so I don't really know why you asked! If you think it will go down well with your family, then that's cool. Good luck with the birth - I've had two C-sections and they were absolutely fine; I am sure yours will be too. Etta is a nice name

If she turns out to be a boy OP you can call him Henry so almost the same!

Did you go for it, OP? How did your family react?

Just re read this- are you in fact expecting twins? 'babies'
Piggzin and Blanketz would be perfect
Did you 'announce ' ? Dying to know!

I did tell the family, and they were all enthusiastic and asked my DD's if they were excited about baby Etta etc. Established my Dad can't say the name without his teeth in, but he also struggles to say my other two DD's names on occasion - so no big issue :)

Glad they liked the name!

Are you naming her after the Basque separatists?

Yeah, I'm afraid that was my first thought. But I doubt very much that kids in school with him/her will know that, so probably not an issue. Unless they start killing people again.