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Have you changed your baby's name?

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lenac · 01/07/2009 11:01

I changed my baby's name from Ralph to Huxley when he was six months old. I just felt his name didn't fit. I was quite surprised at the reaction I got from family and friends. Has anyone else done this or is thinking about doing this?

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mammychildminder · 18/07/2009 20:43

i wish i had known you could do this! we chose a name for our dd, told everyone n then i changed my mind but felt because everyone already knew her name i couldnt change my mind so we registered it.by the time i really disliked it i thought it was too late cos she was registered! shes 2.5 now so abit old to change her name.

icedgemsrock · 18/07/2009 21:11

I changed my ds's middle name just before his first birthday and i'm glad i did. No big deal.
Huxley - cool name!

mifi · 18/07/2009 23:53

I wish i had had the courage to swap our dd2 names around as her 1st name seems so common unlike her middle name. But I wasnt brave enough when family seemed to disaprove. One of my friends then rubbed salt in the wound by nameing her second daughter my daughters middle name!! DD2 now 23 months and it seems to late.

foreverchanges · 19/07/2009 11:27

i think huxley a fab name too(better than ralph !)

i would like to change my dd s middle name could you plese tell me lenac how i go about this ?

Mamazon · 19/07/2009 11:32

xp's aunt changed the name of her dd within a few days of her being born.
prior to the birth she was telling everryone the baby would be called one thing but when she was born it didn't feeol right so she named her something else.

literally within days so it was confusing for a while till the message got back to everyone.

i think at 6 months it will be ok for the child but difficult for everyone else.

AgentCodyBanks · 19/07/2009 15:04

RALPH?!!!!
no farking wonder

pippylongstockings · 20/07/2009 13:34

Did anyone else used to watch Huxley Pig ? In the late 1980's......

Prunerz · 05/09/2009 11:48

How classy to use MN to research your article, lenac.
Journalists usually have to pay for this.

bidibidi · 05/09/2009 12:30

AND in the Guardian piece (today) she says that she met with "fierce resistance" to her decision to rename Ralph/Huxley; I am struggling to detect any resistance here, am I the only one??

And who is it that allegedly called her a "crank" (as alleged in article)?? She completely fabricated the supposed MN response. Or did she start a Chat thread about it all, now expired and with much more bellicose tone, maybe??

nappyaddict · 05/09/2009 12:48

A chat thread would still be visible wouldn't it?

IdrisTheDragon · 05/09/2009 12:50

If there had been a chat thread it would have been still here (unless it was longer ago than this thread).

(I have searched by the way )

franke · 05/09/2009 12:57

How peculiar that she should lie in her article today about the fierce resistance. Journos, they're a strange breed aren't they?

weegiemum · 05/09/2009 13:05

Do you think MN should bill the Guardian for this? Clear bit of journo research which shoudl have been paid for.

Or does that mean they should also be billing the DM?

porcupine11 · 05/09/2009 15:29

She's getting a total bashing on Guardian comments... bet she wished she'd stuck with the MN response!

wotzyRegisteredTM · 05/09/2009 16:43

Laura Wattenberg, Dr Karla Umpierre, Pamela Satran so many lifted quotes...

Spidermama · 05/09/2009 16:46

I think you did the right thing and were brave.

I know mums who regret the names they gave their children and will have a lifetime of so doing because they didn't have the courage to go with their feeling.

I LOVE Huxley. What a great name. Where did you get it from?

KeithTalent · 05/09/2009 16:47

Lena, it is really RUDE to use a chat thread when yr fishing for article filler. Just a thought...

Spidermama · 05/09/2009 16:48

Ahh. I must read threads BEFORE posting.

bidibidi · 05/09/2009 16:53

Hehe, Spidermama.

Spidermama · 05/09/2009 16:54

A link to the article would be nice.

wotzyRegisteredTM · 05/09/2009 17:02

Spidermama - Here is lenac's (op) item in the paper Why I changed my baby's name LenaC

Spidermama · 05/09/2009 17:28

Thanks for the link Wotz.

I don't really understand why people would be annoyed that Lena canvassed opinion on MN tbh. She creditted the site after all.

I agree that it's irritating she said there was fierce reaction when actually the vast majority of the posters on this thread were warm and supportive of the namechange. I guess that's a bit of poetic licence to serve the purpose of the article.

Huxley's a brilliant name though. It's the name of the paleantologist who presents the Walking with Dinosaurs arena spectacular.

wotzyRegisteredTM · 05/09/2009 17:45

I think it's the whole concept about quotes from MN being used in the papers, ongoing in the DM topic ATM. That's where I found this thread from.

TBH I don't care. The things I type in this box are far too boring to be quoted anywhere. I put extra effort in to ensure it is unworthy of duplication.

Merrylegs · 05/09/2009 22:46

Hmm. I have just read this in the Telegraph. (The thinking woman's Daily Mail, obviously.)

'This sounds just the kind of topic a journo would start a thread on MN to canvass opinion' thought I.

Oh, and sure enough, lurking at the end of the article, a reference to MN and 'evidence' that her name-changing was fiercely resisted here.

Er, no it wasn't.

If she had posted in media requests, it wouldn't have irked so much.

I think it is quite irritating, actually, and rather sly, to start a thread for the express purpose of writing an article, especially when a) she fabricated the tone of responses in the ensuing article, and b)she asked a direct question without being honest as to what the point of the question was.

LittleMissWorryHead · 05/09/2009 23:29

LOL!! Oh i did enjoy reading the comments.....