Has anyone had their baby and not had a name for him/her?

[hunkermunker]

Think this is a situation we might find ourselves in!

Did your baby just look like they suited a particular name when they were born? Or had you got one all lined up and then they just weren't a Humphrey (or whatever)?

And is it ever acceptable to call a child "the baby" until they're old enough to choose their own name?

Yes, agree. Will have to make a concerted effort to sort out a name for this poor child!

Yep but I wouldn't recommend it. DD1 was going to be Victoria, but when she arrived she just didn't look like a Victoria and I couldn't bear Vicky so I spent all night after she was born freting over what we should call her...DH arrived the next morning and solved the problem by suggesting Isabelle which was so her.

Anyway DD's 2 & 3 were named straight away cos I couldn't bear the thought of another sleepless night after giving birth!

PF, good point!

Anyone else want to tell me I'm a lazy bugger?

we were going to call dd1 Emma

then she was born and we decided she didnt look like an emma

she didnt have a name for a day or so

then dh came into hospital and said all excited 'we must call her x!'

so we did

how long to go hunker?

what's your short-list?? (if you haven't got that far then yep, you must be a lazy....!)

yes for no5
dh and I debated on hospital steps as what name to give ds

I never named ds for 9 weeks, as he was called Jack in utero but did not suit when born, had devil of time sorting out name.
Eventually settled on Max as he looked so much like the boy in Where the Wild Things are

This thread is making me broody!!!

We knew that if we had a boy we would call him Joanthan after my brother (who passed as a baby) so we only had to really think about girls names. DH love Alexandra but i didnt like it at all. I wanted Elsie (I know just as bad ) he finally agreed to Elsie but then I went and had a boy

With Ds2 we couldnt decide on a girls name at all had a few on the list though, I liked Rose. We had choosen Samuel for a boy but when he was born he didnt look like a Sam. The midwife thought Nathan would suit him but it was too like Jonathan and eventually whilst in the bath after giving birth we settled on Michael. (With Alexander as a middle name to keep dh happy)

I want another baby!!!!!!

that's pretty cute, to be named by your siblings - as long as they've got decent taste in names

a challenge for ds hunker??

LOL RM! DS is 19mo.

New baby would be called "cheese" "shoes" or "up"

Or possibly Fifi Flowertot...

well maybe not then!

what (name!) lines are you thinking along atm?
or is that too nosey?

Hunker you are soooo slack, we chose our names before the babies were even conceived. How can you not know by now

BTW the above is no lie, dh and I were trying to choose a name for a dog, and somehow Poppy's name got suggested and one of us (no idea who) said, oh no lets save that for our little girl, then we joked and said well if we have a Poppy, we'll have to have a Daisy too.

3 yrs later that's just what we had Jamie Oliver simply copied us

I would love a Flora though or flo for short, but I don't want another baby, just to have a cool name

DD's would prob choose Hermione or Emily if they had the chance.

My Mum called me "baby" until she got a snotty letter through the post tellingn her that if she didn't register me than she'd be prosecuted, or something like that, so possibly best not to let the baby name his/herself.

Also, best not to leave naming up to the sibling, as my friend's DS suggested Gladys for the new baby.

I'd had a name chosen for my son and was all sorted, then he came out and just didn't suit it, we were in hospital for a week and each day DH and I would chose a name to try out on him to see if it worked, finally on day six (much to the nursing staff's relief) we found the right one. We then had a right old kerfuffle about his 2nd name and changed it on the morning we went to register him (was going to be Sphere after Thelonius Monk but settled for Dax after my brother)

With ds1 and ds2 we decided on their names fairly early on in pregnancy. This time around neither of us can decide. Whichever name one of us likes the other seems to hate it or knew a bratty child with the same name. I can see us still trying to agree on a name when he/she actually arrives.

DD was Sofia, from the scan up until the first time we got a good look at her. She just didn't look like a Sofia, she needed something ......less well behaved? It's difficult to explain really. Anyway she was called babynoname for the rest of the day, until DH came up with a name which was just perfect - it just seemed to fit her, and still does. I'm a bit peeved though as DH has manged to pick 2 names, and I only managed 1!

We had names for the first three long before they were born. I had a name for the last one as well, until 2 weeks before he was born and DH suddenly said there was no way I was calling him that. Then we couldn't come up with anything. All the names I liked either wouldn't go with the middle name (grandpa just died- wanted to name baby after him) or started with the same letter or ended in the same letter as the other two boys names- so wouldn't go. He was nameless for about 3 weeks, until the children started calling him The New Baby. We found a name that didn't make either of us go 'yuk', registered him, had him baptised and then thought of loads of names that were much nicer

(Had a whole list of girls names....)

Just reminded about an acquaintance in the US who called his first daughter Michael T (yes, I DID say daughter). Apparently, they just gave her an initial as a middle name and when she was older they said she could choose her own name to go with it, as long as it started with T. Wha'???

My Mum thought she had my sister's name all planned out and named her Shannon. She was born in December so al her 'Baby's 1st xmas' cards and 'new baby' cards are to Shannon but when she went to register her she decided it was a crap name and called her Sophie!!

I'm not naming this baby until it's out in the world. With dd, we found it much more appropriate to name her once we'd met her. It took a couple of days, but it meant she could be named according to how we saw her, rather than how we imagined her to be!

Still not got a name and baby's due three weeks on Saturday.

It's funny, people fall into two camps on this - they either berate you loudly for being so stupidly ill-prepared or they say to wait till the baby's born and decide then. Oh, or they don't believe us and think we're waiting to spring a baby called Elvis on them.