Rhode Island Nesties
AmyRI
member
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How did you decide on a name for your child(ren)?
We had a boy and girl name picked out before I was pregnant the first time. We still haven't settled on a new boy option, though. I know we have 6 more months, but it's starting to stress me out for some unknown reason.
We have a short list going, so I don't think it'll be too hard to figure it out. Our options started out pretty narrow, as we wanted Irish/Celtic/Gaelic names. We just both went through long lists of names and picked our favorites, then passed the lists to the other person for vetos.
How did you pick a name (or names)?
Re: How did you decide on a name for your child(ren)?
Name associations are the worst with girls for us. Every girl's name I love, he hates because he knew someone annoying by that name. And he loves obscure girls names that are spelled the Gaelic way and I just can't stomach any of them, lol. We were very lucky that DS was a boy, because if he had been a she, I'm not sure we'd ever be able to agree on a 2nd girl's name if we had another one!
Did you have names picked out for your girls before they were born, or did you decide in the hospital?
With #2, DH wanted to have a bigger part in naming our child. He came up with the list of boy's names, and he had me come up with girl options for him to choose from. I vetoed much of the boy list because of family and friends with those names. In the end, we went with what sounded right to us, being able to call both kids' names in sequence, and chose a name that worked with the middle name we had chosen well in advance (my father's first name). It surprised DH that I liked Kyle, since that would make me Kyle's mom (cue South Park musical reference).
It's not easy. But, a name will come to you. Whatever you choose, once you name your child that, any other associations you may have had will fade away. We both worked with many kids at camp over the years, and knew lots of kids with names we were considering. Now, those kids are not what we think at all hearing the names Shannon or Kyle!
We had twins and needed two boy & girl names because we were a team green. We came up with lists of our favorite and then shared and vetoed as necessary. Boy names were easy for us, we actually had 2 names picked out right away and then a few months before I delivered came up with a third, which is now my son's name Joshua. Girl names were impossible for us to agree upon. There was only one name we could agree on. I remember panicking on the way to the hospital and hoping we didn't have two girls because we only had 1 name.
Name associations were big with my husband, I was more concerned with possible nicknames they would have from the names we gave them. Good luck!