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Irrational fear...

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BettyButterknife · 27/03/2010 09:43

... that all the people I know (well, at least one of them perhaps) due before me might use the only name DH and I have agreed on.

That's ridiculous, right?

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stinkypinky · 27/03/2010 09:45

When are you due?

You might change your mind yourself by then anyway.

Your baby, so call it what you want!

Gonna share the name with us???

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SherbetDibDab · 27/03/2010 09:47

Why don't you just tell them what you're chosen.

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SherbetDibDab · 27/03/2010 09:48

you've even

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MarianneD · 27/03/2010 12:40

Come on you can't say that then not tell us the name ...

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MamaLazarou · 27/03/2010 13:30

Only ridiculous if it's a popular name. If it's an unusual name, I can completely understand where you're coming from!

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NorbertDentressangle · 27/03/2010 13:34

Tell them beforehand then they'd have to be really tactless to use it.

(not sure 'tactless' is the word I'm looking for but YKWIM)

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juneybean · 27/03/2010 13:41

twattish Norbert?

I wouldn't tell them, because that puts it in their head.

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BettyButterknife · 28/03/2010 12:30

Sorry to have posted and run... I'm due in July, the only name we agree on is Ted.

I don't like to tell people our name choice before the baby is born - have had bad experiences where people turn their noses up which they obviously wouldn't do once baby is here and named.

I suppose I'm just feeling precious about it as it is, literally, the only name we can agree on and we'd be pretty stumped if it were used by a close friend before our baby is born.