Skip to main content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to talk navigation

Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Saved Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Flip

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Baby names

Quick poll: How many people panic about baby names towards 'the end'?

16 replies

MerryMarigold · 18/10/2008 05:12

Just interested really...

I had it all sorted. And now I am in a right dither with only a few days to go.

If you panicked: did you end up going back to the original name?

Or did you go for an entirely different name and how long did that take?!

OP posts:

Report

moonincancer · 18/10/2008 06:35

im panickingish, i too asked advice from mumsnet. O/H and i cant agree. with my daughter i had a shortlist of about 6 names but chose something different that "suited" her in a flash of inspiration when she was a day old. wait and see what suits

LazyLinePainterJane · 18/10/2008 08:05

me me me! I have another thread going where I have been given the opportunity to have a name that I love and FFS I am umming and ahhing about it!

I think part of it is having discussed so many names for so long it all gets mixed up, like when you hear a word so many times it sounds funny, or maybe the idea of reality comes in and you start doubting yourself?

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 18/10/2008 08:10

No. All sorted before the birth, middle names and all.

frazzledoldbag34 · 18/10/2008 10:44

We've changed our minds both times when the babies have been born. We just looked at them and went 'nope', and picked something that suited them (off the original long-list but not the name we had decided on. ) Always kept the middle names though.
It's such a big decision - and so hard to get it just right I think.

2point4kids · 18/10/2008 10:48

DS1 name was sorted early on and we stuck with until he was born.
DS2 we had name sorted again but wavered near the end. I did end up changing my mind and going with a different name once he was born. Am very happy that I did.

ninedragons · 18/10/2008 10:49

We squabbled more about names in the final week than any other time.

Ended up going with the first name that was put on the list after I peed on the stick. Wasn't my first choice but it was close.

Rindercella · 18/10/2008 11:04

I was slightly panicking in case we were going to have a boy as I wasn't that keen on the name DH we had decided on. I was 98% certain we were going to have a girl though, so I wasn't too concerned as loved the name we had chosen. We had a girl

Good luck!

hatrick · 18/10/2008 13:06

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

scorpio1 · 18/10/2008 13:09

ds1 - iknew at about 25 weeks
ds2 - a choice of 2 names - he looked more like a Jamie Levi i thought - v pleased i chose this
dd - was Millie (Mimi) since 19 weeks pg

DH is trying to get me to agree him naming dc4 if a boy, i can name if girl - NO chance!!

fizzpops · 18/10/2008 14:11

We didn't know we were having a girl but had four names picked out - didn't decide till she was a day old but I can't imagine we seriously thought we would end up using a couple of the others so really only two contenders. Wasn't panicking though as we tended to agree on quite a lot of girl's names we liked.

Boys names I was panicking a bit as we had no idea. I like fairly traditional names for boys and didn't want to duplicate family or friends names and we both have large families so was slim pickings.

Bonnycat · 18/10/2008 15:45

We picked both our DCs names when we found out the sex at 20 weeks and never budged.

meandmyjoe · 18/10/2008 18:48

I never paniced, we narrowed our ds' name down to either Joseph or Jayden as soon as we found out we were having a boy. Then we heard Britney Spears had a boy called Jayden and we were reminded how chavvy it was and how it will go out of fashion so we stuck with Joseph since about 23 weeks pregnant.

notnowbernard · 18/10/2008 18:53

PAnicked with dc2

Had a name for a girl

Had absolutely NO IDEA for a boy

Luckily baby was dd2

babyOcho · 18/10/2008 19:02

Panicked for the boys, but was set on the girls name... we had DD and now really hate the boys names that we had.

MerryMarigold · 19/10/2008 03:15

I've known for 23 weeks what I'm having and I'm still panicking! Wondered if it's just a late pregnancy thing, but sounds like a lot of you changed minds and were pleased you did! Thanks. I'm sure when I stop panicking then inspiration will hit!

OP posts:

Elkat · 19/10/2008 09:55

Yes. DD1 was named from before I got pregnant - still had the wobblers with her name. DD2 was going to have a different name, until my end of pregnancy wobble - we then chose the name she has now got. We still wobbled and thought of changing that a few months after she was born. I am happy with both choices now.

Flip

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.