Amelie-Grace, Elsie-May & Gracie-May?

[haleyalannahxo]

Normally I don't like hyphenated names at all, but these few are really growing on me. My style tends to be more like, vintage/cutesy, so the cutesy bit doesn't bother me.

For middle names, I would probably use:

Amelie-Grace Louisa
Gracie-May Isabella (or Isabelle)
Elsie-May Kathleen

What names would you use as middle names for Amelie-Grace, Elsie-May and Gracie-May? Which of those three do you like the best?

Thank you :) x

You also have to decide with the father. All our names are compromise names, I didn't like his choice and he didn't like mine! There is no point in wasting time now.

fideline - you are honestly trying to tell me that if I was 28 years old and wasn't ttc, I would be treated like a child?

PS - telling me to get myself a life is actually quite cruel. I got into names more and more as I got older to get myself to stop being depressed and to take away from self-harming. I've been actually bullied more than you can likely even imagine, names are a coping thing for me.

Have you ever heard the quote 'you know my name, not my story'? Don't be so quick to judge me, I'm not judging you at all.

If you were 28 and not ttc but wanted to talk about baby names then you might find a few people to talk about them but another site might suit you better. Mumsnet is quite robust.

I don't think you are being treated like a child. I, myself, am telling you to get a life.

I would say the same if you were 23, 28 or 33 given how far you are from even TTC.

I would say the same to any woman choosing frilly names for far in the future babies. Or to a woman practicing her signature with the surname of a man she has only just met or choosing wedding dresses with no groom on the horizon.

There are women of all ages who do all of these things. All of these things, however, are faintly silly, slightly immature and a waste of precious hours that could be better spent.

This is not the place to come if you want to be soft-soaped. Sorry.

OP build yourself something to live NOW. Do not dream your life away in the manner of a mills and boon heroine. You're at Uni. Great. So why are you not making exciting career plans?

Oh for goodness sake!

Let the OP daydream about baby names if she wants! Why not?? It's a nice daydream and a bit of am escape from reality I imagine. Why should she plan her career? I expect she is also going out having 'fun ' the two aren't mutually exclusive!

toobreathless - thank you. I do have my career planned out actually. In Canada we have apprenticeship courses at college, I work in a daycare 3 days a week as part of my schooling, and attend classes 2 days a week. My career IS planned. I'm attending school to become an Early Childhood Educator (a nursery school nurse, for lack of a better term). I'd say that's pretty planned out.

Fideline - why do you care so much about my life and what I do? It's honestly none of your business.

Oh and, FWIW - I can't even go out drinking or to pubs, the Canadian drinking age is 19, and although I have had a drink, I don't plan on indulging in illegal activities like my classmates do.

Really? Personally, I think she sounds in a bit of a rut. She might benefit from some honest opinions.

(And actually daydreaming is different from soliciting the opinions from a panel of mothers on t'interweb)

Ho hum. I'll hide the thread

fideline no odder than you sound berating her over 't'interweb' in the middle of the night.

Right I'm back to work (nights - break over)

OP good luck with your career. Sounds like you have it all planned out.

Not a one of my posts was based on the fact that you are 18 and not yet ttc, I just thought it was amusing that you were so young when your names were so immature.

You asked for views, you got them. People infantilising their daughters with little cutesy wutesy bibbidy boo type names make me pissed off. That's because I'm a feminist and I don't like what it says about their constructions of gender, femininity and women, and I think it contributes towards a culture of not taking women seriously as proper adult humans.

I love the cutesy wutesy bibbidy boo expression

OP, I didn't make the connection with the other thread where you mentioned your age and student status. My response on this thread was made thus in total ignorance that you were a teenager unlikely to have a child for some time. However, your over the top response, flouncing and little-girl shrieking would have suggested extreme youth even had you not said so.

Obviously, I am sorry you've had RL bullying experiences in the past, but no one on an anonymous Internet forum can magically know this, and surely before you post for the first time on a forum, you spend a while absorbing its 'culture'?

To put it bluntly, Mumsnet is forthright, does not soft soap, and is not Nameberry. There are (to my knowledge) no nine year olds here feverishly naming their dolls and imaginary babies.

I think Fideline's posts are bracing, but contain perfectly valid advice.

Haley if you are still on here I do hope you haven't taken the comments too much to heart. I hope you will stay on Mumsnet but remember to mention in your original posts that you would like people to be gentle. You'll attract more gentle replies that way.

My mother had a book of baby names and I pored over it as a child, making up names. I still do, only for characters I write about. (Making up characters is a great way to use names you like but wouldn't dare use IRL )

I feel like giving you a {{hug}} - you sound bright, sweet and creative and you have your whole life ahead of you to leave those bad memories behind. Remember this - it's what YOU think that is important. Don't let anyone else's opinion, offline or on, be anything more to you than just "something to consider".

I think Eliza is nicer than Elsie, and much more unusual.

The names individually are fine (not sure about Gracie though), however I would say no no no to the hyphens.

If you love the names why don't you just use them individually? Personally I cannot stand hyphenated names, but that's just me.