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Baby Name Reveal
When you have children do you plan on telling everyone the name of the baby before it is born or keeping it a secret?
Moms- what did you do and why?
Re: Baby Name Reveal
I posted that because DH and I were discussing it. I would hate to tell everyone the name we picked and then right before the baby is born we are drawn to a new name. I know people in my family tend to personalize gifts if they know the name so we would have all of these items with another name on it.
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My Husband and I have joked that we will come up with some off the wall names and tell people those. LOL! I get annoyed with some of the feedback when people tell family members the names they have chosen. We said if we pick crazy names like Apple then family will appriechiate the real names we have chosen. IDK I think it's pretty funny, but maybe I just have a strange sense of humor!
So I guess to answer your question... We are undecided about telling people IRL.
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We have decided to find out the gender, but not share that information with anyone. Therefore, we aren't sharing the names we pick either. I don't want the "What the hell are you thinking? Your child is going to be so ridiculed..."
This is the same for us too. We have a girl's name that we love and boys name we just like. So we are probably having boys too!
Everyone already knows our names. I've had the same girl name picked out since I was 9 since it's my middle name and my granny's name. Our boy name is DH's middle name.
Every time someone announces they are pregnant, I remind them of my name choices- haha. I don't care if they pick it too, but I just want them to be aware that when I'm preg- those are the names so their kids will be sharing.
Boy- Patrick
Girl- Lena
I'm actually undecided about Team Green or not. I think it would be AMAZING to find out at the birth, but I'm such a planner I don't know if I could stand not knowing. Maybe for baby # 2...
We had told everyone ahead of time what it would be if it were a girl or a boy (we decided several years ago), so everyone knew.
For me, I liked referring to him by name for the second half of my pregnancy (after 16 weeks when we found out it was a boy). At first, I would always call him my nephew's name, so it was good that I got 22 weeks of practice calling him Carter!
Plus, being able to talk to other people and call him Carter made me feel more connected to him...and made him more real than just calling him "him" when I was talking to someone.
Someone I know had a name picked out, had told everyone, but still always referred to him as baby, the baby, etc. I just thought it was strange to not call him by name if it was chosen and well known.
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We are following DH's family tradition, they all (on his dad's side) have the initials LJB, so we have started thinking about names. Boy's names have been a struggle because the common ones are already used in the family (Lance, Lucas, Logan).
I think that we will probably find out the sex (I hate surprises) and then tell the name also, but it won't be official until the baby comes out, I would hate to pick out X for a name and then the baby looks like Y.
At this point (although it could change); we'll find out the gender. I am one of the world's most anal planners and would want to start getting gender specific clothing and setting up the nursery. However, I'd would love to keep the gender a secret btwn DH & I, that way there's surprise and anticipation for all of our friends and family for the birth.
Namewise, we haven't really discussed, but I don't think I'd want to share ahead of time. I like having the idea of a few names and then seeing baby and officially deciding. Although I wonder if it'd really be like a lightbulb/"aaaah" moment when you see baby and would think, it's name should definitely be ____?
So in recap: who knows what we'll do? lol
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We are Team Green all the way! We do not want to find out the gender for any of our children. We will have names picked out for either gender (that we will keep to ourselves) and then see who we meet on their birthday!
We just love the surprise element of finding out when they arrive if it is a boy or girl. And we do not want opinions and side eyes for name choices.
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Oh I'll find out the gender of the kid as soon as I can. And I will probably tell everyone.
-My only deal with DH is until we hit the 3.5 month mark he's not allowed to tell ANYONE. I'm really superstitious when it comes to things like that.
And although we have names picked out, chances are when the kid pops out we'll name it something else.
This is what my brother and SIL did for my nephew and niece, though we knew what the middle name of my niece would be (tradition on my mom' side of family).
I could see myself going this route or not finding out the gender too, so I guess we'll find out if it ever happens. :-)
I don't plan to find out the gender, so there are people who know the names we really like (and already his family told us that our son will be picked on) but no one will be certain until after the birth...BIL asked me if I was crazy for not wanting to know the gender but I feel it is my choice and as long as DH is okay with it everything is good...
Liam? Zach has a cousin named Landon. There's a baby book at work (ah, the joys of being a librarian) that has names from all over creation. I'll get the title and author for you tomorrow if you like.
We've decided we definitely want to know the gender, and more than likely will figure out the name beforehand, but probably won't mention the name until the second half of the pregnancy. We'll definitely tell the gender, though - I can't keep stuff like that from anyone, especially my parents.
I want to know the gender, but I think it would be cute to do a reveal. I read somewhere that the couple had the ultrasound tech write the gender down and seal it in an envelope and they gave it to the bakery and told them to put pink or blue icing inside the cake depending on what it was. Then, the gender was revealed to the parents and whole family when they cut the cake. I would like to do something like that.
I will probably narrow it down to 3 boys names or 3 girls names before the birth and share the names but make a final decision when the baby is born. We like a bit non-traditional names, so not everyone will like them, but I don't care.
Whether you want it or not, here are 2 baby name books I found:
"The Perfect Baby Names" by Jeanine Cox and "The Mother of All Baby Names Book" by Bruce Lansky