You shouldn't be allowed to choose a name when hormonal!!

[LLJ4]

I have a list of potential names which I compiled when not pg (or even TTC).

Now that I am pg, and extremely hormonal, the list is growing. I am considering some truly remarkable names that I know really are out of the question.

Anything you considered whilst extremely hormonal (i.e. pg or newly-delivered) that wouldn't have made a list while you were sane?

My dd's middle name, which is the same as my middle name (and I have always hated it) and is also my Mum's middle name. In my defence I was away with the fairies after an emc and blurted it out to my mother in a fit of hormonal/drugged up sentimentality. She rushed home and emailed the WHOLE WORLD and I got loads of cars congratulating me on the birth of babydarksidehorriblemiddlename so it stuck.

I think we should have a list of acceptable baby names in this country, as I understand they do in France. This would stop children being given names that make them sound like strippers/characters from dodgy romance novels etc.

In recent years I have met a "Gandalf" - small boy running riot in the local supermarket with his mother shouting his name at the top of his lungs and yes she was actually weating a LOTR t-shirt at the time; and an "Aubergine" - born at the same time as Apple Paltrow, mother liked the name but didn't want people to think she was copying Gwyneth so opted for another fruit/vegetable based "A" name.

I kid you not.

after DS was born, I spent 3 days crying that we should have called him George, because he looked like one. Nothing wrong with the name, but we needed a Czech name, so George would never have worked. Plus it was the name of the baby across from me on the post natal ward. DP just humoured me, and DS is still Oliver, despite my hormonal wobbling

truthfully no even though dd3 and ds got named whilst I was very hormonal

Any weird spelling, particularly of a 'traditional' name

We announced a 'Thom' as in Thom Yorke, but thought better of it . I hope Tom will appreciate that one day. However, I too still have cards congratulating us to the safe arrival of Thom...

Too true OP, DD was very nearly Sapphire. In the end she was called a very lovely name, which we said immediately she was born but then I panicked and 'retracted' it , so for several days she was nameless, during which time she was very nearly Sapphire. Fortunately saw sense. Not that Sapphire isn't a really lovely name, it is, but we really couldn't carry it off.

We are considering Isadora for number two (shoot me now).

Thanks but everyone my age is going to sing 'Wizadora'! And it is v poncey and we are not poncey people.

FWIW Georgiana is on on my wish list too

I suggested calling the child Cardinal while I was pregnant. CARDINAL! I didn't - though in my post- labour daze I did manage to give the poor wee chap three middle names.