Changing baby name upon seeing baby...

[Polkadotfanatic]

Mum and I were talking at neice's birthday party this weekend. Couple of pregnant ladies there and they were discussing names. She said to me, you were going to be Carly, all the way through the pregnancy - Carly Josephine - then when you were born I burst into tears and decided you weren't a Carly and named you Kirsty instead as it was the middle name of the Scottish midwife...

(Josephine is also not my mn.... lol)

Has this happened to any of you - changing your baby name upon seeing newborn, for whatever reason?

(nosey emoticon)

We have always had a name chosen before the baby was born. I really cannot understand a child not looking like a name, that would sort of mean that everyone of a particular name looks the same iykwim?
DD looked totally different to what I expected she would look like, but, she is still the name we had picked for her, and now 3 weeks later, she could not be any other name.

I can see myself doing this! To safeguard, the bump will be called one thing (Peanut, Button, Muffin etc), and I will not mention any names we have picked, so I don't ruin them, or feel silly if I suddenly decide that no, the baby is definitely a Peter not a James.

Babies definitely look like a name I think, I'm just going to have to try and decide that they look like the names I want them too!

This happened with my brother... He was going to be Simon throughout pregnancy and when he was born my parents decided he didn't look like a Simon. They made the right choice, at 32, I don't think he looks like a Simon either.

Apparently I spent the first two weeks of my life being called 'Charlotte' before my mother had a change of heart and picked the most popular girls name of the era (which does not work with my surname at all - I wish she's stuck with her first option).