I am 32wks pregnant and we can’t agree on a baby girl name, for our son(2) we LOVE his name. Maybe I’m being over dramatic because my husband told me to just pick one, but I thought we were supposed to agree and get all squishy like we did with choosing our son’s name. So what’s the naming process? Do I just pick one because he doesn’t seem to have a strong opinion this round?
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I feel like we’re missing a lot of context here.
Is he suggesting name after name after name and you’re shooting them all down? Because your post sort of comes across that way?
Are you naming a boy after hubby? That’s what I thought I read.
Can you elaborate?
Are you shooting down all his ideas? Is he disappointed you’re having a girl? Did he not want a second child? Is there some big stress in your life other than the new baby?
What is the context to explain why he’s less interested this time than he was with the first?
It sounds to me like you’re hoping for both of you to enthusiastically agree that YES THIS IS IT for your upcoming baby girl, like you did with your son before. But it doesn’t always have to be that way.
If your husband doesn’t have a particularly strong opinion this time around then you can either play around with choices some more (if you have time left till labor), or you can really just go with what you personally like.
My dad never had strong opinions on names, so he let my mom take her pick and it worked out fine. If you’re looking to name your daughter something you both had a hand in choosing, then maybe let your husband choose your daughter’s middle name while you pick the first?
Make a list narrow it down to 6 names. 3 first three middle. Ask hubby to rank the names. If he’s not passionate about it, just give him choices to choose from.
A kid doesn’t learn it’s name straight out of the womb. Take your time. Find something that feels right. Plenty of people leave their child as ”baby girl” for a couple of weeks until they find something that they both love.
We were having this issue on our second kid and we kept suggesting names and my spouse wouldn’t like them because they work with someone with that name and at some point I realize I was suggesting names I didn’t even like… so I gave them a list of 10 names and say pick one from here, and they said OK but I get the middle name and I said OK
My husband and his ex couldn’t agree on names so my sd has 2 very long names as her first name and also has a middle name.
Hiw about you tell us your three favorites and his three favorites and we try to come up withba compromise you both like?
Wait until you meet her in person. She’ll let you know what her name is.
We had trouble naming our daughter as well. My husband didn’t like any of the names I chose. So I did was put together a list of names that I really liked (but didn’t love) and gave the list to my husband and told him to pick the one that je liked most. And ironically, it was my favorite name from the list. I’d suggest doing the same.
My first two girls I pick their names and I love them as soon as I found out the gender. My third girl, we were literally at the hospital in labor when the nurse asked us if we had a name, we just stare at each other because the last 40 weeks we could not figure out a name. So I asked the nurse to write down our top three choices and she picked her daughter’s name.
There was nothing we both loved . He was stuck on Delilah, but I hate that name and after I told him I don’t like the name Delilah he could care less about having any conversations regarding the Baby’s name
If what you’d like are name suggestions: please give us ones you’ve each been keen or meh on (or can’t use, for some reason.) Tell us the last name initial and number of syllables, and we’ll try to suggest things!