Due in December 07 - look at that bump!

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OK hopefully no-one else has started a new thread!

Beckle I don't think I do know Edie MacCredie!! Obviously not a good connotation! I like Evie too BTW! I had also thought of Eden. But in the final analysis I'm definitely a traditional name type of person.

Issy was going to be Isabella and I wanted that to be shortened to Bella but in the end went with Isobel as we felt Isabella was a bit of a mouthful (albeit a very beautiful one) and am glad now because there seem to be loads of Isabellas around but not so many Isobel/Isabel/Isabelles!

I like Edie, that is nice.

I would love to use a shakespearean name if i ever have a little girl.

buzzy - beatrice is beautiful I love the old fasioned names like that but dh reckons they sound too posh we've picked Matilda Claire and Noah James so far - probably very popular but go well with our surname and ds's name - theres still plenty of time to change our mind tho!

beckle - we only have one ds and have found boys names impossible!

I like arthur, but DH thinks it is too fuddy duddy. (He has insisted on english names, though)

Boys names are impossible! We want a simple English or Scottish name that goes with our Polish surname. It is a nightmare and we just can't agree.

Mixedmama, re Shakespearian names - have always loved Rosalind with Rosie for short. Girls names are not a problem for me, I have half a dozen I wouldn't mind using for a dd.

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Sorry to crash for a moment, but ladies for the meet up - incase you dont still have the link.

Feeling better today, think I was just having a crap day yesterday!
I think Dh and I have pretty much decided on names, Peter Edward for a boy and Sarah Isobel for a girl. You lot are very priviledge as we have refused to tell family and friends the names we have picked

Bouncingturtle - I think you're right not to tell them. They'll all have their opinions and try to influence your decision.

Glad you're feeling better today. I am too - had a better sleep last night so feeling a bit stronger to tackle the world and what it throws at me.

yep, especially as FIL is desperate for me to have a boy as will be the first grandson FILs's surname (so apparently dss doesn't count because he has his mum's name ). And he wants it to be called John - which both DH and I don't particularly want. I really hope it's a girl just to piss off FIL, the silly old git.

Bouncingturtle - Forget that - he had the chance to name his own kids, now its your turn!

second you wizzska. It makes me really cross when people try and interfere. My LO will be no less loved by his maternal parents just because i have taken DH's surname. Even if it does mean that their unusual surname may actually die out in this generation.

Ooh that annoys me when other people say "I hope you have a..."
I would be hoping for a girl for the same reasons Bouncing!
My SIL is pestering me to call LO Bethany but as our surname starts with B too I'm not going to! I just think "Save it for your own kids if you love it that much!"
Suey - Arthur is lovely, its on my top name list for boys!

I definitely think I am going to stop telling people what names we are thinking of - other people's reactions to some of them (Arthur and Mary mainly) put me off a bit. At the end of the day if you are happy with LO's name, who else should care? When we called DS1 Harry it was fairly unusual and lots of people thought it odd but as it was already his name they got used to it and no other name would suit him! Now it is in the top 5 names for boys I think!

The other one that annoys me is when people tell me I must be hoping for a girl this time as I already have 2 boys. Don't think people believe me when I say I just want a healthy baby and have no real preference!

OTOH DH really wants a girl and has been telling everyone that's what we are having (despite the sonographer saying she couldn't be sure) - after speaking to him people have been congratulating me on a girl like it is more of an achievement than a boy would be.

Sarah Isobel is gorgeous, so pretty, ditto on the name silence, we've not told anyone either. I think it stops all the "I knew a girl by that name, she was horrible" Once the babies born and named, the comments should stop. Much more traditional names are coming back in fashion now aren't they, maybe crazy celeb-kid names (Apple/Peaches) was a short lived phase. I liked my name growing up, no-body had it, not that's strangely unusual - just american. The problems with uncommon names is it's usually mis-spelt and you can never find name items - the pens/ mugs/ keyrings and other tat..

Completely agree about not telling everyone about names. Some lovely ones going around in the thread! It took us ages to decide on names (Poppy Elizabeth for a girl and Joseph Spencer for a boy) and then we stupidly told people and had to defend our choices!

From seeing the postings I worked out my countdown (10 weeks til mat leave and 12 weeks til birth) but given that my mum was late with both me and my brother and this is my first I should probably be looking at the new year as a more realistic timeframe, like Becklespookle. It's hard to add time on though because I can't wait!

We werent going to tell anyone names but then of course we did. the comment I get most for any name is "oh it will be shortened to this or that". Drives me mad, I just say I will teach my child their name, if they go to school and it happens it happens nothing can be done.

My name cant really be shortened but a few people have still tried.

My did didnt like Ediz originally but I just said we liked it and he dealt with it. DH family going to have a much bigger problem me thinks as it isnt obviously Muslim and is actually intrinsically Turkish... but they asked me and DH to change DS1 name after he was born too and when we said no proceeded to call him something completely different until I put a stop to it.... not having another IL rant just illustrating that it isnt so good to tell people and some people will still express their opinion when LO is here....

i LOVE isobel as a name. Sadly there is a wicked step grandmother on DH's side. I had to veot Mary, only because my dad hasn't spoken to his sister mary for 20 years.

I feel sorry for my SIL- she is a primary school teacher so she knows a horrid personification of every name! She ended up with molly and niamh for her 2 girls, which I think are both lovely. I do think also that the name represents that child, so even if there is a bad connotation, that connotation ceases when it is represented by a bundle of joy.

that should be my dad not did

The more I hear about yor IL's Mixedmama the worse they seem, I don't envy you them at all. You rant away about them as much as you like hun x

That wasnt that bad, managed to sort it pretty painlessly.

Dh has started to talk about me going there next week for Eid.... dont want to but am remaining calm and going to see how it goes.

Enough about them tho dont let me go on about it again. Will save that for if i do actually go as I will need a good moan probably then.

Poor MM - your ILs are a right handful. Hope it doesn't ruin your Eid if you go - although yisn't your SIL ok with you?

Mixedmama - I know its awful, but I'm quite thankful that DH doesn't have any parents. Lots of brothers and sisters though, and they're all quite nice.

I just cant be asked and i hate two facedness and I will be so two faced and worried that the way i feel anyway and preg hormones will get the better of me and might end up in a fight with someone.

I have 4 SIL and 3 BIL so one out of all them isnt that much and one of them is the biggest bitch (excuse my language) accoridng to her own bro and sis as well as me so she makes up for the one that is ok... and most of the others are quite a bit younger.

Isobel is lovely! I have suggested it to DH a few times but he's just not as keen (although doesn't have any other suitable suggestions either!).

Please, please be totally honest with me, I wont be offended at all. What do you think of Oscar? A friend of mine in another country has a DS called this and ever since she told us his name I really like it but not entirely sure if I like it for one of my kids (IYKWIM?)

Has anyone bought their cot/cotbed/moses mattress off Ebay? Someone, somewhere posted a link to the shop on Ebay where they bought their (brand new) mattress from but can I find who it was and on what thread?! We're borrowing a moses basket from my sister so will need a new mattress.

Thelady hope you are ok sweety, haven't seen you online for a day or two.