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How to move on from a name?

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almostmumto3 · 31/07/2017 17:22

I'm not sure what I'm having yet but convinced I'm carrying a boy. I feel his name is Louis and I can't shift it.
DH doesn't like it at all but hasn't come up with any of his own suggestions  anytime I think of another name I want to cry and I feel like I'm changing the name of one of my other children 🙈
I'm hoping this is hormonal and I get unmatched soon, but have any of you had your heart set on a name and your DH has said no way? How do you move on? Or you you just LTB and pick it lol.

Any other boys suggestions welcome :)

Thank you

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almostmumto3 · 31/07/2017 17:23

*Unattached - and sorry about he lack of full stop lol

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 31/07/2017 17:25

Well I think most people have to compromise with their partner.

I'd just keep mentioning it, it's amazing how a name can grow on you if you keep hearing it.

OuchBollocks · 31/07/2017 17:27

Keep at it (subtly, gently) unless he comes up with a better alternative. I wanted a certain name for DS. DH didn't like it. Guess what DS is called Grin

Sophronia · 31/07/2017 17:33

My DH has said no to all my favourite names, some of which I've loved for years or even decades! Unfortunately you can't force someone to like a name, so you have to compromise. I can definitely sympathise though!

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Reuben
Frankie
Harry
Max
Henry
Theo
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Noah
Joseph
Zachary
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LorLorr2 · 31/07/2017 17:35

If your DH doesn't have any ideas himself perhaps he will come round to it? Or he could pick the middle name? :)
Otherwise compromise with something similar e.g Lewis, then keep saying it and using it all the time until it feels like 'the' name x

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 31/07/2017 18:19

Any chance of him picking the girls name, and you picking the boys, bit of a gamble OP, but you might just win ! 😄
I love Louis too.

Chaffinch4 · 31/07/2017 19:24

I've found that I get very attached to a name for a while and then move on and get very attached to another one! It is very hard though when DHs don't agree, but don't offer any ideas. There are a few names that he just wouldn't have at all and I still slightly mourn the loss of them, but I do think it's important to have a name you both like.

almostmumto3 · 31/07/2017 20:19

Thank you.
With is DC3 for us we are notoriously bad at agreeing on a name lol.
Would be easier if he had some suggestions but I'm irritated that all mine are no's but he's offering no alternative.

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Epipgab · 31/07/2017 20:59

Do you have a baby name book which he could look through, and at least pick his top 10?

golfmonkey · 01/08/2017 17:22

Brilliant website called namedtogether.com you and partner tick names you both like. We used for dd2 and only got 3 matches out of 500 names! But we did pick one of those 3. We also had trouble finding names we both liked .

steppemum · 01/08/2017 17:36

a lot of my favourite names were vetoed by dh.
Then another 2 were used by my brother (he didn't know I liked them)
We just kept trawling through books til we found ones we liked.

Dh was hopeless, he could say yes or no to me but he didn't like doing books and didn't have many suggestions.
I was told on Friday I would be induced on Monday, and it was a girl. So we needed to chose a name. We sat up in bed over the weekend, him reading, me with a name book. I went through slowly and suggested ones I liked.

Suddenly he said - I like that! and we thought about it for a few momments and both went YES! (it begins with an L so we had gone through a lot of the alphabet!)

It was easier in that we did have some parameters. He is Dutch and flowers names were a no-no as were things like Grace. (that is an adjective not a name according to him!)
It had to avoid certain sounds, no th, no g, and it had to be pronounceable in Dutch, English and Russian. That ruled quite a few favourites out as well. Bethany, and Abigail were on my list!

So I would ask him when is a good time to do it, and then go through a top 10. Let him have a yes/no/maybe on that. Then a few days later suggest another top 10, and so on, until you have a short list.
try the names out round the house, and with your surname and other dcs names

Do have a girls name in reserve, just in case it is a girl!

steppemum · 01/08/2017 17:36

whoops a bit long Blush

in the end if he hates the name let it go and work on finding another.

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