Change baby name at 8 months - please help!!!!

[May06]

My ds is about 8 months and for a few months I've been regretting his name. I always had doubts over the name but thought I'd get over it when he was here and for the first few months I felt fine with it. However for the past 4 months I've been agonising over it to the pojnt it's starting to become an obsession and I find it difficult to even call him by name. Has anyone actually changed their child's name? Was there any impact? I know under 1 it can be changed on the birth certificate so presumably he would never know how indecisive his mother is??! In a way I'm desperate to change it but part of me feels guilty about doing it as if people will think I'm changing him??? Please help me!!!

Thanks

M

Known as Mary

That is certainly a simple solution and one we used in different ways with 2 of our children. The first was not baptised until he was 5 years old so we allowed him to choose his own baptismal name. The 2nd was adopted when first was late teens so as part of helping him to feel this was his "project" as well he got to choose number 2s baptismal name too.
Of course it is then up to you and dh which name you choose to use. BUT you do need to AGREE on which one to use
Interestingly both names are very much names we might have chosen. ..so well done number one.
Nevertheless. ..if you really want to change it completely ......and you and dh can agree...go for it. Your child you get to choose.

After 5 years, I'm sure something has been decided by now.

Is it Kale or Sage?

My mother was christened Catherine and hated it. Aged about 4 or 5 she asked a family friend to help her "get a new name" and together they came up with Katina. And so it has been ever since.
If you hate a name, change it as soon as you can. Especially if you know what it should have been!

Zombie thread.

This is so similar to what happened to me I double checked the date of your post to make sure it wasn't mine! I honestly could've written it word for word.

Because the worry became obsessive, dh felt I was being irrational and didn't want to listen to me. I had to calm down quite a bit and present him with calm logic before I persuaded him.

In the end we officially changed his name at 11 months, although had been 'trying out' the new name for a few weeks.

I was expecting some weird comments from friends and family, but got none at all. Of course now (he is 2.5) no one cares less, especially not him!

I have kept all his cards from birth and there is still a picture hanging in the living room with his old name on. I actually think it is quite a cool story and there is no point hiding it.

I would 100% advise you to change it and not give it a second thought. It is very easy and I am convinced you will be so much happier. Pregnancy/newborn period is a difficult time to make such a big choice, I'm sure you will be happier with something you choose now.

Now I feel like an absolute lunatic that I checked the date to make sure it wasn't my thread, but didn't clock the zombification!!!! ha ha at me!

I think you should change it. I really wanted to call DS something else but with his surname he'd have got a lot of stick at school. Now he just suits his name, but I still prefer what I wanted to call him.