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Own up! Do you read this section even though you have no baby to name nor will you in the future?

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notanumber · 04/04/2011 16:08

I'm done with all that puking, piling on the pounds and pushing business. Really, I'm done (or so DH thinks, mwahahahahaha Grin)

So why do I obsessively read the baby name board? I have no bloody idea.

Am I a lone loon or are there any more of you reading who are not pregnant and will never be pregnant again?

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TheVisitor · 04/04/2011 16:09

I read some of the ones on the active threads and comment, but I'm not obsessive about it. Grin

BlessedAssurance · 04/04/2011 16:10

of course!!:o

MmeLindt · 04/04/2011 16:11

Same as Visitor.

It is our responsibility as non-hormonal non-pregnant women to save the poor unborn children from the mistakes of their mothers.

Tuschinski · 04/04/2011 16:12

I actually love reading and talking about baby names - so long as I'm not pregnant!
I find the subject really stressful when the pressure is on to pick one and tend to draw a total blank.
I only joined this forum as I heard there was a very active babby names section and I'd never, ever have picked DS's name if it wasn't for you all so I think I owe it to other members to stay around!

BlessedAssurance · 04/04/2011 16:12

i meant to say i read the baby names board, pregnant or not,

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notanumber · 04/04/2011 16:14

Yes, you're right MmeLindt! We're perfoming a service. (I seriously considered calling DS Oak when he was in utero. I thought it was a beautiful English nature type name - I mean, if you can have Heather and Daisy etc...)

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Tuschinski · 04/04/2011 16:14

I actually love reading and talking about baby names - so long as I'm not pregnant!
I find the subject really stressful when the pressure is on to pick one and tend to draw a total blank.
I only joined this forum as I heard there was a very active baby names section and I'd never, ever have picked DS's name if it wasn't for you all so I think I owe it to other members to stay around!

lockets · 04/04/2011 19:03

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CharlieCoCo · 04/04/2011 19:20

im a nanny with no desire to have children ever. i do however love baby names and have named the children i will never have lol. i like to hear about other names too so come on here a lot. if the thread is short enough i will also give my opinion, to help hormonal people who think the word bucket or sausage will make lovely names for their babies:)

ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie · 04/04/2011 19:22

I admit it - my name is CBBG and I am a name addict. I love the sound of words and love reading, so names fit in with that I guess. I like it when a name just seems to flow so nicely together that it could have been a book character!

JayMe · 04/04/2011 19:23

I love BN. There's a happiness about it that is a respite from some of the other Topics. I always suggest the same names and often notice the same people doing the same.

Patrick, anyone?

lockets · 04/04/2011 19:26

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RancerDoo · 04/04/2011 19:28

I love the baby names section. I sit around mentally naming my future (non-existent) baby all sorts of things, which is kind of funny because I am too knackered to have another. Ever. And I've only just shifted the weight from the last one.

I long to name a Mumsnet baby...

haudyerwheesht · 04/04/2011 19:33

I have a 4yr old and a 6m old and dh has said no more :( I will always look in here though especially as it is how we got dd's name, we had never heard of it before but now we have a little one with that name!

GetAwayFromHerYouBitch · 04/04/2011 19:38
ilovesprouts · 04/04/2011 19:43

i read them all but, not having any more !

ragged · 04/04/2011 19:44

I like getting to be brutally blunt about names I love & loathe. Grin

TeddyMcardle · 04/04/2011 19:46

Blush you caught me...

redstripeyelephant · 04/04/2011 20:11

Babynames is what drew me to mumsnet this time last year when pregnant with DD2. And it definitely helped me decide her name, so can't help popping back for a nostalgia trip sometimes Smile

Am also guilty of always suggesting the same names, especially the DDs names, and my imaginary boy names!

redstripeyelephant · 04/04/2011 20:11

Babynames is what drew me to mumsnet this time last year when pregnant with DD2. And it definitely helped me decide her name, so can't help popping back for a nostalgia trip sometimes Smile

Am also guilty of always suggesting the same names, especially the DDs names, and my imaginary boy names!

Whelk · 04/04/2011 20:43

It's my way of fuelling my broodiness for MORE CHILDREN (crazed hormonal non-pregnant and not allowed to have more dc woman).

Suncottage · 04/04/2011 20:48

I love the baby name section and would love to know I have suggested a name that was used.

Anyone used:

Katherine
Charlotte
Sebastion
Persephone
Tanith

BTW they were all names I suggested when a MN was looking for a 'type' of name.

I have my own 'secret' names. Smile

GibberingGinger · 04/04/2011 21:26

I love the baby names threads. I don't often post, but I love seeing the trends and secretly look out for my kids names to see peoples opinions on them

Jajas · 04/04/2011 21:31

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MmeLindt · 04/04/2011 21:43

Lockers
Don't take offense. I was being silly.

Although I am not sure you want to take the hormone excuse away from NotaNumber. Oak, FFS.