To pull rank over dh with regards to naming our baby? We just cannot agree on a girl's name.

[Tropicana]

We do not know the sex of our baby.

We have chosen and agreed on a boy's name, no problem.

However, we both struggled to come up with a girl's name that we really liked.

Now, I have decided that I really want to go for Caitlin, but he is not keen at all.

He wants Charlotte, which I think is okay but I do not want it. If I was to go along with it, I would always be thinking that I never wanted to call her that.

We just cannot come up with anything that we both totally agree on.

I have just asked DH what his response would have been if I had told him that we were going to use a name I liked but he didn't due to the whole pregnancy and labour thing, he said hewould probably dig his heels in because I tried to blackmail him.
You should really continue to try and find a name you both like.

Caitlin is a lovely name, but so is Charlotte, but will they get shortened to cat and charlie? You need to think of things like that.

Beware that if you are thinking of pulling rank your DH might have a plan up his sleeve too.

Mine disliked all but one of my suggestions, even the family names which I wantd. In the end we agread on Fleur, but then he told everyone and I went off it.
He never came up with anything else until we were on our way to the hospital and he suggested DD's name. I agreed as I quite liked it, even though I had thought I could get my way with the "i've just given birth" plan.

When we were getting the baby registered and he saw my mum's contact details on my passport he said "ooh I like Eleanor" - which was my first choice all along. GAH

Try and find a name you both like, I still feel a little sad that I didn't get my choices, but it isn't the end of the world.