When you had your children did you 'feel ready' to name them?

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Like you were confident in your choices?

Yes

No and I was surprised at how much pressure I suddenly felt when she was born to have a name ready!

Yes. Both were already decided in principal but I wanted to see their faces before being certain.

Yes, all 3 dds names were picked by about the 6th month of pregnancy. I had one boy and one girls name picked ( I didn't know gender for any of them).

Yes with DD. We'd picked a girls name we both loved and meant a lot to us half way through the pregnancy. I was convinced she'd be a boy, but we never agreed on a boys name. I had one stuck in my head, but DH hated it.

DS arrived 5 weeks ago. We still hadn't agreed on a boys name, but we had a girls name. By default I got the name I've been arguing for for 5 years as we hadn't found an alternative.
But after spending so long trying to think of other names it's taking me a while to get used to calling him it. He's usually Lump, Stinker or Mr. But he's registered now so it's official.

Yes with dd1. Had the name picked before conception and were totally comfortable with it. With dd2 I don't know what we're going to do. 6 weeks to go and it's still up in the air. We've been battling it out for months with no real conclusion.

Yup. It's a good job really as we didn't have a back up option at all. We agreed months before on the name. Initially I was a bit spaced with everything that was going on and DP said 'hello boysname'. DS couldn't have been anything else.

No. Named her at the latest possible moment, because we were struggling to find the right name. A completely different name popped into my head a week later!

Yep, both names were picked before baby arrived. First time around we decided on a boy and girl option and the second time we knew she was another girl so just chose a girls name. Love both of them and wouldn't change them at all.

I've never understood the 'wait and see what they look like' theory TBH, neither of my babies looked like any name really, just like scrunched up, wrinkly, bald newborns!

Yes, both times within minutes of their births and holding them in my arms I knew which of the names on our shortlist suited them, and luckily Dh agreed!

DC1 was due 8 days ago. We don't know his/her sex yet.

We are 100% set on a boys name.

We are completely unsure for a girl. We're sort of hoping that if it is a girl she'll look like a name, but I'm not convinced.

For DD we had a shortlist of two and had a different favourite each. On the day (within about the first hour) we had decided on one.

DS was unconfirmed for about three days. I had a favourite that DH agreed that he liked but wasn't convinced. He couldn't come up with an alternative that he preferred so we went with it. Five weeks on he says he loves it and is glad we chose it.

We went with my favourite for DD so I was happy to wait for DH to be sure about the name for DS, and I would have been flexible had he come up with another that he loved. In those three short days though, we copped a lot of comments along the lines of "you've had 9 months, how hard can it be to pick a name?".

Hell no. We'd agreed on a girl's name before I even got pregnant but I'm a complete commitment-phobe so I refused to confirm the name until 4 / 5 days after she was born. (still a little uncertain 4months in - but I know that's just me being weird)

With DS, we really only had one serious contender that we both agreed on, so he just was that from about being seven months pregnant.

With DD, I had one for each gender, then every second girl I met for weeks was called that name (Chloe) and while I still really liked it I didn't want there to be 6 of them in her class at school so it put me off it. I figured she was going to be a boy anyway...lol, so she was called the baby for 10 days.

Me and EXP couldn't agree on anything but that's a whole other story so DS1 was 4 days old before being named. DS2 was 3 days.

My (lovely) DM was a bit "how is baby??" during these no-name periods.

Yes, names on the bracelets as soon as they were born. Prompted at the time of the birth of my eldest (long time ago) by a story of two couples whose babies had been exchanged in hospital.

yes but sloo my DSs both had "son of chocolate rainbow" on bracelets

We had discussed girls names but not boys. Within an hour of his birth DH came up with a name for DS which I love and it really suits him.

Ds3 was jago but no one could say it at all , his name still unurusall but easier to say now

We had first and second boys and girls names decided before conception, all family names. Totally agree with Chandeleria re not understanding the 'wait and see' thing!

We had DS first and so when pregnant with DD, before we knew she was our DD, we spent the whole 20 weeks trying to decide on another boys name and couldn't settle on anything so it was lucky she was a girl.

If we have a third it will be back to the drawing board - not a family name necessarily this time.

Yes! We had decided after the 20 wk scan.

Ooh, Sloobreeus, really?!

No! DH wouldn't even discuss names seriously until they were born. Both were nameless for about 3 weeks. But I do think we got to know them a bit in that time, and some names I'd thought I wanted while pregnant were definitely not right once I held them in my arms