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to change my DDs Christian name this late in the day??

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AllAboutFace · 25/03/2010 10:45

I think I already know the answer to this but here we go....

DD is 6 months old. She is not Christened, but obviously has a Birth Certificate in her name as it now. I hate her Christian name, I won't mention it as it would be too obvious to anyone in real life who saw it, who I am.

It's not a very common name. When she was born DP and I hadn't agreed on any names! I was happy to leave it a week or two, but DP and families were pressuring me to give her a name. Although DP disagreed with most of my suggestions. The only one he liked was her current name. I agreed, honestly, for a quiet life - I felt a bit shell shocked after a difficult birth. She is our first.

I know I could have changed it when I had to register her. But again, at that time, didn't have the strength to argue, I had PND and was pressuring myself to be ready to get back to work (I still haven't gone back yet by the way!), and was having a hideous time with DP and his pushy parents. I did bring it up, but DP refused point blank - his main reason being that his aunt had embroidered her name onto a towel she had sent as a gift!! Aarrrgh. He also assumed that it must be my PND.

DP, DD and I are all back on track now, but I still don't like her name. There are couple of others DP agrees are lovely and we could change it to (he's calmed down a bit too). I do feel stupid though, just socially. I know my family would support the decision to change her name, but DPs won't. And I worry what friends would think..... Am I being unreasonable? I really don't know anymore!!

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Condensedmilkaddict · 27/03/2010 08:14

Olivia, to be fair the OP didn't want to name the name. We pushed her into it...and she did make a point of saying that it wasn't the name as such, it was more the emotions associated with it for her.

Be a pretty tough world if we all liked the same name.

lockets · 27/03/2010 09:06

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Condensedmilkaddict · 27/03/2010 09:15

Of course it is a perfectly nice name, but come on - lets not make her feel guilty for not liking it...
We can't all like the same name, and it sounds like she has been through a really tough time.

Pennies · 27/03/2010 09:15

Kitty's a sweet name. But with the alliterative K surname it's a bit . I hope her middle name isn't Kate...

lockets · 27/03/2010 09:19

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Maggie00 · 27/03/2010 09:22

6 months is still really young! don't beat yourself up over it.

My dc1's middle name wasn't carefully chosen. It was just like god, i'm so tired.

Rockbird · 27/03/2010 09:26

Kitty is a lovely name, so is Eleanor. I confess I was expecting Hepzibah or something! But it matters not a jot what we think of Kitty; if you hate it every time you look at her and it sounds like you do, then change it asap and don't give it another thought.

hattee · 20/04/2010 22:59

Did you chamge it in the end AllAboutFace? I did the same thing with DS's name at 6 months as, like you, I was never happy with the original name. DH chose it after vetoing all my suggestions, and I felt that we really had to make a decison quickly after the birth (he was a little early so though I had more time to find a name we were both happy with), so just went along with it. We kept the original name as an additional middle name though

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