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When did you name your baby...?

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justmilkpleasenosugar · 31/01/2011 12:38

My DH would like us not to rush picking a name if DC is a DS..saying waiting a few days is okay...I was just wondering when you named your baby!

Years in advance, when s/he arrived and you saw it's wee face or 2 weeks later...???

I'm very keen that we have a list sorted in advance but DH want's to 'wait and see'

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BlueChampagne · 31/01/2011 12:42

We had names chosen in advance, but didn't tell anyone, so we could change our minds if they 'didn't look like an x'. I'd say it's useful (and fun) to develop a shortlist in advance.

StrawberrySam · 31/01/2011 12:42

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babylann · 31/01/2011 12:43

With DD, we had our names picked from about a month before the scan where we found out she was a girl. Still got that name now.

With our next baby, yet to be conceived, we are already discussing names and have come up with a shortlist!

Psammead · 31/01/2011 12:44

About 3 months before she arrived. I couldn't wait any longer, I'd have chosen names when we were TTC. DH wanted to put it off as long as possible.

LaWeaselMys · 31/01/2011 12:47

A few months before.

But we talked about it right from the go and I thinmk after 6mths we were both fed up of not agreeing on anything so as soon as we had a name we both liked that was it. We reserved judgement until she was born just in case, but it fits fine.

The middle name was chosen about half an hour before she was registered because I put my foot down and insisted I got my choice.

Also hoping for a boy next time because we like the same boys names! Just not girl's ones...

HaveToWearHeels · 31/01/2011 12:51

We had one boys name and one girls, Sex was confirmed at 20 weeks and DD was her name from that day.

rachel234 · 31/01/2011 12:53

After the 20 week scan when we found out the gender.

fifi25 · 31/01/2011 12:58

My 2nd daughters name Romilly is the name i had picked whilst pregnant with my 1st. Everyone put me off it but i loved it. I ended up calling my 1st Niamh which is what her dad chose. I said then if i have another daughter shes getting called Romilly. Whilst pregnant with the 2nd my oldest started everyone off calling the bump Daisy her favorite name. I did not like it but everyone still said youve got to call her Daisy. I called her Romilly Daisy. For my 3rd daughter i loved Bo but once again everyone said no this is stupid her cousins called Bo. Bo and Jo. I still got to use my 2nd choice.

LadyintheRadiator · 31/01/2011 13:11

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AllieW · 31/01/2011 13:35

As for rachel234 - just after the 20 week scan.

sparkle12mar08 · 31/01/2011 13:43

Ds1 - 6 days old
Ds2 - 3 weeks old

In ds2's case we had chosen a name before he was born but I took one look at him the moment he came out and thought 'hell no, you are not an X'. It then took three weeks to come up with something else as I had another name I loved but dh was very uncertain. But we got there in the end. With ds1 we had two names we liked and just tried them both for a few days, we knew much quicker with him which one we preferred.

sparkle12mar08 · 31/01/2011 13:44

I should say that in both cases we had whittled down our choices to a top three at least a month or so beforehand.

crapbarry · 31/01/2011 13:47

pre-conception! DH is from a different country, and his friends were all having kids and giving them the same name , so we looked at the 'name days' list from his country to see why! And agreed on a couple of names for any subsequent child, which worked with both of our languages. Luckily it suits DS :o

BabyValentine · 31/01/2011 13:53

DD was about 5 days old. We did have a (long) shortlist though

NotJustKangaskhan · 31/01/2011 14:01

My eldest was named beforehand (my husband had his heart set on one). After that we've had occasionally changing name lists and we picked what suited after they were born. They've mostloy stayed the same, but with others in the family born or associations, they've changed.

DD1 was "A" for her first few days as we'd whittled the first names down to two A names, where as DD2 was refered to by her middle name as we knew that but not her first name (it was after my husband's late grandfather) .

So names are picked years in advanced, but we don't really have a set names until after they're born.

MoaningMedalllist · 31/01/2011 14:14

Warren Christopher

the middle name is his dads thought I'd be traditional, we agrred if we have a girl she will have my name as a middle name

AprilMeadow · 31/01/2011 14:14

I started thinking of names once I knew I was pg then had to try them out on dh. Lots of names got the thumbs down and the more children we have had the harder it has become.

All have been their names from the minute we found out their sex at the 20wk scan. Each have had a different choice of names as I have always gone off of the 'not needed' name by the time I have become pg again.

GinGirl · 31/01/2011 14:22

Like to have 2 girls names and 2 boys names on a shortlist. Then decide between the 2 almost instantly following the birth. This has worked for the first 2 children and can't see why it wouldn't this time round.

Think it makes the anouncing the arrival thing v complicated if you don't have a name. A relative didn't name their baby for 10 days or so... do you send a 'congratulations on the arrival of your son' card or wait til you know the name? V stressful for me! xx

TotorosOcarina · 31/01/2011 14:24

DS1- before he was concieved.

DS2 - about 20 weeks pregnant.

DD about 39 weeks we decided her name would be the one - didn't have a middle name until she was a few days old though.

Am 26 weeks with DS3 and he has a first name already.

blondepinhead · 31/01/2011 14:24

Err... when I was about 15 . Then forgot all about it for 17 years, and only remembered again once I was pregnant. Took me nearly all 9 months to convince dh, but he loves it now!

We did have spares though, just in case she didn't look like the name we'd chosen - or was in fact a boy.

BeeMyBaby · 31/01/2011 14:31

I think it was finalised shortly before the 3 month scan, and we are currently finalising about 3 more baby names for any subsequent children we may have... I think its good to think about it in advance as then you are less likely to regret it than a possible hormonal spur of the moment kind of thing...

stuffedmk · 31/01/2011 14:33

Within a few hours of arrival.

PlentyOfParsnips · 31/01/2011 14:37

DD - within minutes of being born, DS - we were still trying to decide the day before the deadline for registering the birth. He spent the first few weeks as Little Boy

Fimbo · 31/01/2011 14:38

I always loved dd's name before I even met dh, luckily he agreed. We did have a boy's name picked too, didn't want to know the sex before she was born.

With ds again didn't know sex until he was born but had his name picked out before.

Bumperrlicious · 31/01/2011 14:40

She was 6 days old. We literally had no consensus till then and her name was a complete last minute compromise.

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