About telling your friends your name ideas...

[Leanna]

Just a word of advice-- you may not want to tell your friends offline your name ideas. We know friends who did and it seemed that everyone had an opinion "oh, I don't like that, what about this?" and you may be set on the name already. Its your baby and your name choice so unless you want to put up with that for months, don't tell them! We didn't tell anyone what we had chosen and it drove our friends and family nuts, but in the end it was more fun. If they know the name and the sex there isn't any surprise for them. So we chose to know the sex, but not tell the name. We had him named for 4 months before birth.

 

[karla]

My SIL is famous for having a negative opinion about amy name we come up with With each of our children, we decided on names and when people asked we told them the name has already been decided and then shared it with them. Other than my SIL, no one really said anything. I just addressed her comments by saying, when you get married and have a child of your own, you can name him or her anything you want, but I'll worry about naming my children. That seemed to settle it. Of course no one knows we are pg now and the names we have chosen. But I totally understnad you point and it makes complete sense.

 

[Picture.Of.Obedience]

i agree. i also had the thought that like with our first child Ryley, i miscarried him and had the fear that someone would name their baby after him. like name their son Ryley. i wouldnt like that... my co worker told her stepdad what she would name her baby if a boy and she had a girl... and the stepdad named their baby the boys name...like stole it i gues.. i dont know, i think its better not to tell...

 

[sammipher]

names are so tricky when it comes to telling others...it seems everyone gets offended if the baby is not named after them. take for instance my aunt brenda and uncle joe...they thought our baby should be named brenda joe or joe for a boy and told some family members we agreed to that and them being god parents when we said no such thing...its crazy. I also kind of dont like sharing the names within the family for those that are expecting..i guess horomones make you really protective over names...lol.

 

[katelyn]

We did tell our family & friends what names we were considering through a baby name poll. It was kind of fun, but I think there were a few people who took the poll a little too seriously, as if the poll was absolutely going to determine what name we used! (Perhaps we did it a little too close to the elections and people got caught up in their right to vote and the idea of their vote making a difference? lol) It was just for fun, to see what people thought of the names we were thinking of...I mean, obviously, we have the final say in what name we pick. Sheesh.

We do have another couple expecting in our family, and our due dates are really close. I trust them not to knowingly "steal" a name we picked, so I thought it was better to tell them ahead of time what name we picked. I could just see us picking out the same name without telling the other, and then one of us would have a big surprise when the other delivered first and announced the name.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

my MIL never likes the names that I pick out, but my SIL is the same as me and she loves them, her mother didn't like her name choices, (my MIL is her mother).

I love the names that we have picked out and was happy when Jamie told Sue that it was "Bobbie's kid, so she and Jay are the only ones who get to name the baby, live with their choice!"

 

[mamaneenie]

We never told anyone first time around, and we won't tell anyone this time.

It's really funny because I found people were accepting of us not telling them.