Do I need to ask my sister first???

[Bellaholland]

Hi

I'm 39 weeks and 5 days so our baby could be born any day now!

We do not know if it is a boy or girl. Our boys name is Charlie Jacob ( Charlie was my grandad and Jacob my husbands). My sister has a little girl called Charlotte. She is only one years old and is at the moment know as Charlotte. My sister has mentioned shortening to Charly in tha past.

We really don't want to reveal names before baby is born. We decided if its a boy we would phone my sister first and ask if she would mind if we use Charlie. I am now wondering if this is really needed! When our daughter was born we spent several hours alone with her before telling anyone. I would like this again but would find it odd if I couldn't call him Charlie in those hours.

Am I being silly? I'm sure m sister will see no issue in it at all!

What would you do?

Thanks

Welcome baby Charlie x

Brilliant news! Love Charlie!

Congratulations Bella :) Charlie is a lovely name - I hope you're all happy and healthy and wish you all the best for the future.

On reading through this thread I was reminded of a situation in our family:

My aunt refused to let my uncle (her husband) call their son Daniel because we have a cousin called Danielle or James as my brother is called Jamie. It wasn't a big deal really and I don't think my uncle's siblings would have minded, it was just my aunt (the pregnant lady!) and my gran that had issues with it.

was your grandad Charles or Charlie? Just wondering as Charles is obviously the "correct" form anyway....
but as others said might be best to go for Jacob Charlie

ooops should have read to the end...congratulations to the birth of little Charlie