I do love my boys names, but man, they were a struggle to find and agree upon. It felt like hard work, lol.
We came up with our top two girl names, both first and middle, right away when I was pregnant with DS1. So when we found out #3 was a girl we were like, "Well, at least the name part is easy. We've been saving it for 5 years."
I really wanted a third boy just for the ease of clothes, toys, etc. And I love being a "boy mom". But I was stressing about naming a 3rd boy.
I'm going to need to have 20 girls to use all the names I like. I have a list of boy names too but none that I'm super in to. I'm still waiting to hear that "perfect" name but I don't think it's going to happen.
No, thank God we had two boys because we have very different taste in girl names. In fact, I went through an entire name book and the only names I really liked happened to be names of dh's ex girlfriends. Lol.
Post by cricketwife on Aug 7, 2015 18:30:08 GMT -5
We had one "perfect" boy name agreed before we were even sure that we wanted kids. We have one boy. If we have a second, it will be hard to name. There are no other boy named we both love, and we have 4 great girl names that each have one flaw that keeps them from being the "perfect" name.
My experience IRL is that if a couple HS a name agreed for one sex, that ends up being the sex they have. It's like the cosmos is all in harmony.
No. We had a really hard time picking a girl's name. We finally found one that we liked but it didn't have nearly the significance to us that our boy names did.
My experience IRL is that if a couple HS a name agreed for one sex, that ends up being the sex they have. It's like the cosmos is all in harmony.
This was the opposite of our experience. We decided on a girl name in 5 min. I still waited to decide on DS's name until I delivered. Good thing DH let me pick this time
My experience IRL is that if a couple HS a name agreed for one sex, that ends up being the sex they have. It's like the cosmos is all in harmony.
This was the opposite of our experience. We decided on a girl name in 5 min. I still waited to decide on DS's name until I delivered. Good thing DH let me pick this time
Ha! I knew as soon as I posted this everyone would follow with their opposite experiences. That must have been really frustrating!
Post by longtimenopost on Aug 7, 2015 19:52:47 GMT -5
Yup. We had a boy name all picked out until we discovered we were having a third girl! Tough, and needing it to work in both languages adds another challenge.
We had one "perfect" boy name agreed before we were even sure that we wanted kids. We have one boy. If we have a second, it will be hard to name. There are no other boy named we both love, and we have 4 great girl names that each have one flaw that keeps them from being the "perfect" name.
My experience IRL is that if a couple HS a name agreed for one sex, that ends up being the sex they have. It's like the cosmos is all in harmony.
Nope. But to be fair, DH was defaulting to me if we had a girl and we both had strong and opposing opinions for boys. As in he wanted one name - Paolo Emiliano and that was the one name I refused to do. I won with my vaginatrumpcard
Yep. The girl column in the name spreadsheet is like 3X the size of the boy name one. I think a girl would have been much harder to name for that reason.
I only have one on the way so far, but I'd have been disappointed if she'd been a boy and subsequent babies were also boys. We decided what we'd name our first daughter YEARS ago. I'd have been bummed if I never got to use it.
We don't have any boy names though, so I won't be bothered if we don't have a boy from the name perspective.
I know, right? We have friends who had a baby last year and were team green. Their front runners for a girl were Hazel and Violet. I straight up warned her that if she went with Hazel and then I had a girl my next pregnancy, we'd have name twins. She, of course, had a girl and named her Hazel. I don't even care!