my pregnant colleague has just announced her baby names....

[yorkshirepudding]

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Umlelleia - poeple do care once the baby is born - but hopefully are too polite to give their opinions (unless of course they have nice things to say)!

I find it very odd to announce the baby's name before it is born.

I know, wish I hadn't really. It is somehow different though when the name is 'attached' to a baby/child. You get used to names you don't like very quickly anyway.

Reefer is a bit weird, but at least no one else will be called it!

I thought maybe it was meant to be another pronunciation of Raif/Ralf but on second thoughts, maybe not!

Does she know that it's a slang term for drugs??

My mum was being especially annoying just before DD was born so i told her we were going to call her T'Sahundra..little baby T'shaundra.
When she said " gosh - how unusual. Were does that come from" I told her (truthfully) it was the name of a baby who's mother was DNA testing five guys to find her dad on Maury.
She didn't phone me for two straight weeks

Pagwatch that is BRILLIANT!

We had already chosen the names for my baby but my mother kept on say 'but what about ....' until I got really ratty and shouted at her choice of Rebecca. She hasn't mentioned another name since, but I wish I had done something like you!

She's still cross and DD is 5 now..

(And it is T'Shaundra course, T'Suhundra would just be silly)

pmsl @ pagwatch

am more impressed with the fact she's gone a week overdue and is still at work!!

Is that the lady who is having T'Shaundra? If so, I'm not surprised, I expect the baby will put off coming out indefinately if it knows what name awaits it!

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Pagwatch - was she Vulcan?

YP - either she is yanking your chain, and is just trying to keeping schtum on the real names, or she is serious - in which case get it out of your system here, and when baby is born say "How lovely, really suits him/her!"

reefer as in i want to smoke the reefer

lol
there wont be two of them in any class will they

if i ever have a nother kid

ther names will ne gene or mildred i tell ya

Cadelaide - we had a dog when I was a child that was called Beaver. I never understood why my parents hated the name until I was older! We inherited her from my grandad. He'd got her from a dog shelter, and her actual name was Biba, but he misheard and so she was stuck with Beaver (we found this out much later).

Oh.my.god

Gene is a good name, but really put off it on seeing the photo of the charming offspring of Liam Gallagher.

rolf at beaver.
Going to persuade my children to call our next dog that. DH always walks the dog. He will look like a desperate perv wanmdering the woods...

You have to tell her what a reefer is. For the child's sake.

if she isn't just having you on, you HAVE to tell her, the poor woman.