Naming situation - any advice?

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I gave birth early yesterday morning to a lovely little boy, a pure bundle of joy! Many months ago we had narrowed it down to a few, the ones that I really wanted were out as some close relatives already have those names, and I thought it'd be just too awkward to use either of those names. So in the end I've let DH pick one, which he did. Everyone loves it, I think it's a beautiful name too, but for some really odd reason whenever I call out my child that using that name, I realise that I don't really like it. I've bonded with my child, but not the name it appears! It's bothering me because of this very paradox, I want to be in tune with both!
Anyone been in that situation? Any advice? Please don't suggest to change the name, that's not an option, reasons why are irrelevant to this post. Thanks!

I think no matter how much you love a name, say it during pregnancy etc, when baby arrives and you start saying it out loud in real life/at your baby it can take some getting used to.

Sometimes babies just have to grow into their names and I think that can sometimes go for parents too, sometimes I think you just need to give it time to grow on you.

Your little bundle is only a day old, give it a week or so and I bet you couldn’t imagine him being called anything else.

Congratulations!

We had two names picked out, we were 90% sure it would be name A but had a few doubts.
When she arrived we waited a couple of days before telling people her name as I wanted to be sure. It took a few days for it to feel natural and that was when we told people her name.
I also, we know a few people that go by their middle names so I wanted to give her a middle name that I would be happy if it was a first name so that we had 2 chances of giving her a name that she likes when she gets older.

Congratulations OP .

It took us ages to name DD and even after we did I kept expecting someone to come in and say, don't be silly, that's not her name. It took a while before I could introduce her without rolling out an explanation of why we'd chosen her name. She's three now and we mainly call her odd pet names. It's totally fine. If you're happy with the name I'm sure the association between the name and your beautiful boy will come in time.

Congratulations have you spoke to your partner about it?
I only ask as we had a name we were set on, we used it for 5 days and each day went past I hated it more and more 🤦🏼‍♀️😂. Until Day 5 I just cried 🤦🏼‍♀️😂, and admitted although I loved the name it's just wasn't my son. My husband turned around and went phew... he wasn't either. We liked the name it just didn't suit him. To this day I'm so glad we changed it!

Agree that it takes a while for the name to feel right. We just had one boys name all the way through pregnancy and it was never going to be anything else but it still felt odd to say it to start with. For a good few weeks we just called him baby 😂🤷‍♀️ now he is 2 years old and couldn't imagine him with a different name x