Any mental health people? Can a child remaining unnamed for 9 weeks have some affects?

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I’ve just found out this morning, before being taken in by my grandfather, I had remained unnamed for 9 weeks.

I am curious to learn what ramifications that may have, or if any of those may be lasting.

Is it psychologically important for a child to have a name early on?

I have 2 memories from 2.5 - I had pneumonia. The first is vague - feeling ill in white place. It manifested as dream for years before I mentioned it to my parents and the association with me going down with pneumonia whilst visiting a church with a striking white interior was made. The second was waking whist sleeping downstairs in the living room with my Dad - we had no upstairs heating in those days so I slept downstairs when I was ill - was a memory I identified myself.

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OP, sorry some people have been unpleasant. It's a reasonable question. As others have said, the lack of name alone would not harm the baby, but it sounds like it may have been part of a wider picture of neglect and that may well have done some damage.

Please seek real life support if you feel issues from your childhood are causing difficulties for you now. It is definitely possible to heal these early wounds, but many need help to do so.

A nine week old baby doesn't have a sense of self, an identity, an ego. They know absolutely nothing whatsoever about anything!
They don't even actually even know they exist?!
So of course it wouldn't affect someone negatively. If you hadn't been told you'd never know or feel any different so it's not a big thing.

I agree with this. We all need to feel fully loved and taken care of from birth, if you feel this didn't happen, of course you can feel upset.

Unless you have been given a name that causes you unkind comments or a lifetime of correcting spelling, I cannot see why not. And in any case, you could be given what I would call an unkind name when only a few hours old, so timing makes no difference.

I think it's part of a bigger picture.

A baby in a loving, caring family who just couldn't decide on a name and used a cute nickname...no.

A baby who didn't have that secure attachment in those first few weeks...which if you ended up in the care of your gf at such an early age it sounds like you didn't...I can see how. It's not the name per se, but the lack of attachement

Just because you don’t “start laying diwn” long term memories before 4-5 doesn’t mean your experiences before then—kindness, cruelty, chaos, love don’t affect you. Hell language learning has taken place, all your emotional griwth and education on intimacy has already taken olace. Don’t be so dismissive of this poster’s question.

Are you a seriously saying a baby isn't affected by the first 9 weeks? So it makes no difference if a baby is loved and cuddled and talked to and given affection? I don't think you've thought that through.

If you are looking for root causes for any mental health issues you currently have a look at ACE. Adverse childhood experiences and see how many resonate. As other posters have said it’s not the lack of name it’s what was going on around that. Wishing you the best

I agree that those things are necessary from birth. At no point have I said they were not, despite you and a couple of others seemingly reading it in my post.
What isn't necessary, and what won't cause trauma, is the lack of a proper name for 9 weeks. Which is what the OP asked.