Quick poll: How many people panic about baby names towards 'the end'?

[MerryMarigold]

Just interested really...

I had it all sorted. And now I am in a right dither with only a few days to go.

If you panicked: did you end up going back to the original name?

Or did you go for an entirely different name and how long did that take?!

im panickingish, i too asked advice from mumsnet. O/H and i cant agree. with my daughter i had a shortlist of about 6 names but chose something different that "suited" her in a flash of inspiration when she was a day old. wait and see what suits

me me me! I have another thread going where I have been given the opportunity to have a name that I love and FFS I am umming and ahhing about it!

I think part of it is having discussed so many names for so long it all gets mixed up, like when you hear a word so many times it sounds funny, or maybe the idea of reality comes in and you start doubting yourself?

No. All sorted before the birth, middle names and all.

We've changed our minds both times when the babies have been born. We just looked at them and went 'nope', and picked something that suited them (off the original long-list but not the name we had decided on. ) Always kept the middle names though.
It's such a big decision - and so hard to get it just right I think.

DS1 name was sorted early on and we stuck with until he was born.
DS2 we had name sorted again but wavered near the end. I did end up changing my mind and going with a different name once he was born. Am very happy that I did.

We squabbled more about names in the final week than any other time.

Ended up going with the first name that was put on the list after I peed on the stick. Wasn't my first choice but it was close.

I was slightly panicking in case we were going to have a boy as I wasn't that keen on the name DH we had decided on. I was 98% certain we were going to have a girl though, so I wasn't too concerned as loved the name we had chosen. We had a girl

Good luck!

ds1 - iknew at about 25 weeks
ds2 - a choice of 2 names - he looked more like a Jamie Levi i thought - v pleased i chose this
dd - was Millie (Mimi) since 19 weeks pg

DH is trying to get me to agree him naming dc4 if a boy, i can name if girl - NO chance!!

We didn't know we were having a girl but had four names picked out - didn't decide till she was a day old but I can't imagine we seriously thought we would end up using a couple of the others so really only two contenders. Wasn't panicking though as we tended to agree on quite a lot of girl's names we liked.

Boys names I was panicking a bit as we had no idea. I like fairly traditional names for boys and didn't want to duplicate family or friends names and we both have large families so was slim pickings.

We picked both our DCs names when we found out the sex at 20 weeks and never budged.

I never paniced, we narrowed our ds' name down to either Joseph or Jayden as soon as we found out we were having a boy. Then we heard Britney Spears had a boy called Jayden and we were reminded how chavvy it was and how it will go out of fashion so we stuck with Joseph since about 23 weeks pregnant.

PAnicked with dc2

Had a name for a girl

Had absolutely NO IDEA for a boy

Luckily baby was dd2

Panicked for the boys, but was set on the girls name... we had DD and now really hate the boys names that we had.

I've known for 23 weeks what I'm having and I'm still panicking! Wondered if it's just a late pregnancy thing, but sounds like a lot of you changed minds and were pleased you did! Thanks. I'm sure when I stop panicking then inspiration will hit!

Yes. DD1 was named from before I got pregnant - still had the wobblers with her name. DD2 was going to have a different name, until my end of pregnancy wobble - we then chose the name she has now got. We still wobbled and thought of changing that a few months after she was born. I am happy with both choices now.