Hi all, a little bit of advice is needed. We registered the birth of our beautiful son yesterday after 6 weeks of deliberation. We decided to give a name we both absolutely love but which also happens to be the same name as our cat.
Whilst I still love the name, as soon as we got home yesterday, I started to have major doubts purely and simply becuse of the cat. We had thought it wouldn't be a problem but it just seems very odd calling our son then calling the cat by the same name. I hadn't really anticipated exactly how it would be in practice and I guess I now feel our son deserves his own name that hasn't already belonged to a cat!
So, less than 24 hours later, we're considering amending the birth certificate. This would be sad as you can't just change the whole thing but the original name stays and you just add the new name at the bottom. I feel as if the poor boy has only just got his certificate and it's already ruined!
We've talked about changing the cat's name but I think I would still feel DS's name would be the cats as the cat has had that name for years!
A ridiculous situation I know but if anyone has any advice or opinion it would be much appreciated. Thanks