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I keep wanting to call my baby the wrong name

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NoteSpelling · 30/03/2012 13:26

I keep wanting to call her Zoe.

I don't particularly like the name Zoe, it has never been on any kind of shortlist, I don't know any Zoes, it is not her name. It is nothing like her name.

I don't mean I want to call her Zoe, as in I wish I had. I mean I keep nearly getting her name wrong. I look at her and she looks like a Zoe, or perhaps a Laila.

Calling her Zoe or Laila is absolutely out of the question.

What on earth is going on? I am a bit wierded out by this.

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seeker · 01/04/2012 10:01

I'm sorry- I misunderstood. You did say you were sierras out- which implied to me that you were leaning towards a paranormal explanation. Certainly others were!

Tired and emotional wasn't intended as anything negative, by the way!

seeker · 01/04/2012 10:02

Sierras? I meant wierded!

3boysgirlontheway · 01/04/2012 10:16

I am having this exact situation. DD is almost 5 weeks old, she is called Florence, yet I keep calling her Sarah. It was a name that wasn't even on any of our extensive lists. I don't even really like the name Sarah.

It is very werid!

seeker · 01/04/2012 19:13

If somebody gives me a few more details about the girl who was reincarnated after being drained as a year old I'll debunk that too! Haven't been able to track it down yet.

stinkingbishop · 02/04/2012 17:46

I have even been known to get my own name wrong. I once answered the phone at work with 'Tim speaking'. I am neither male nor, in fact, especially good friends with anyone called Tim...

Maybe that was me in a previous life then. Ronnie Corbett in Don't Wait Up.

silverfrog · 02/04/2012 17:57

oh, I do the running-through-all-available-names-including-dead-pets thign too.

but that's not the same as not calling your child by the name you chose. with both dds (who have typical, middle class, leafy suburb names, as match our lifestyle) I just could not 'see' them as the names we chose for a good while.

partly due to babies not really being 'people' - it took a while to just match them up with their names.

dh and I had a serious conversation about dd1, when she was around 2, and whether we shoudl change her name, as we never used it (we called her Poppy, as I said upthread). we both agreed that ehr middle name (Olivia) suited her better at that point and decided that if we still felt the same in a month we would change her name.

w didn't change, in the end, and she 'is' her name now, just as dd2 (who was called by a family nickname exclusively until she was 18 months old at least) 'is' hers.

doesnt stop me using the wrong name when asking who wants what in a packed lunch, or when calling them for tea, but not quite the same as the inexplicable calling-them-a-totally-different-name.

ChippingInNeedsCoffee · 02/04/2012 18:42

Of course - there could never be any other than the narrow view you hold could there.

Nagoo - there is no need to be nasty about other peoples thoughts.

ChippingInNeedsCoffee · 02/04/2012 18:53

seeker could you post a different link to the 'debunk' I can't get that one to work (it could be my laptop, bloody thing has a mind of its own!!).

The one with the little girl - it was years ago, I'll write all I can remember.

I think it was a well known presenter who went with her.
I think it was in either africa or india.
She was about 9/10 when they did the programme.
I think she was about 6 when she died.
She was playing with friends in a stream/river and she slipped, hit her head/drowned.
She remembered her parents, siblings, friends names.
Where she had lived, the house the street etc.
She was able to take them to the place where she died.
She recognised her parents and they her.
Since being able to talk, she talked about her 'real' parents and wanted to 'go home' this upset her parents hugely (of course) and they told her not to be silly etc, but she persisted. They were very poor (mud hut type poor) and were not able to take her to where she said she was from, but word got around and it was done through the tv station (I think).

Sorry, I can't remember anymore than that.

Of course I know it could all be made up for tv/money whatever - but who knows?? I think it is very naive to believe that this life is the only one we live, that this planet is the only one with life on it etc. I'm not saying it's true, I'm just saying I am open to the possibility - there is so much we don't/can't know?!

perceptionreality · 02/04/2012 19:59

Actually, nobody has the right to disrespect anyone's beliefs. If you don't have anything nice to say and all that. Some people do believe in reincarnation (I personally don't). Nobody really knows if they are right because none of us know everything.

ArcticRain · 02/04/2012 20:07

Have a 16 week old . For the first six weeks I kept calling her Saffron. Never on my list , or registered with me before ! It did pass.

seeker · 02/04/2012 20:25

here

It's not disrespecting anyone's beliefs to point out that something is either deliberate hoax or well meaning delusion.

ethelb · 02/04/2012 20:29

i'm called hannah. Everyone calls me rachel!

fhdl34 · 02/04/2012 20:29

We both kept calling our newborn DD the name of the dog we had to rehome over a year ago

ethelb · 02/04/2012 20:30

sorry, when they first meet me. Not people who know my name obv.

Every bloody time I start a new job.

AwkwardMary · 02/04/2012 20:33

I also referred to my DDs as another name...I kept calling my eldest Bunty. My other DD I called Tabitha. Their names are not Bunty and Tabitha and nor were these names ever discussed or thought of.

I love the names we gave them...but now they are 7 and 4 and I STILL think of them sometimes as Bunty and Tabitha.

AwkwardMary · 02/04/2012 20:35

My brothers is called James but has always been called by another name...since birth my Mum referred to him as lets say "Alex" though his official name was James...he's known as Alex by everyone though. It's Mum''s fault.

HSMM · 02/04/2012 20:37

I'm so pleased I'm not the only one. I kept getting the urge to call DD Katie and I didn't know why!

Ephiny · 02/04/2012 20:38

When we got our older dog, we kept wanting to call him Ben for some reason, it's not his name or anything similar to it. Oddly a couple of other people (MIL and the dog walker) have done exactly the same thing.

Maybe that's who he was in a previous life (or even a previous home as he's a rescue dog!) and we are picking it up through some paranormal means . Or maybe, and slightly more likely :), he just looks like a Ben!

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 02/04/2012 20:46

Wow soozey that's amazing! U were clearly destined to be together somehow .

Faverolles · 02/04/2012 20:53

Some of you might like this thread :)

CinnabarRed · 02/04/2012 21:40

DS3 is almost 7 months old, and in my mind he doesn't "fit" his name (Daniel) or any of its derivatives. But I don't have an alternative name popping into my head either. Wish I did, maybe then I could persuade DH to reconsider.

FoofFighter · 04/04/2012 16:35

ooh faverolles I'm on that old thread under a previous incarnation myself

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