Are you telling people your baby names before he/she is born ?

[TeddysGirl]

We have finally decided on our baby names

We find out if we are or on 18th July and we aren't sure if we are going to share our names until the baby is born or not.

My fiances cousin is due 31st October and she is calling her little boy William and no one so far has had any bad words to say about it (despite the fact there is already a William in the family) but I don't want to risk them tainting out names.

For a girl we have chosen Elowyn which is kinda unusual but I love it and think they might have something to say about it. For a boy we have chosen Harrison which I think they will love because it isn't too uncommon and it is my fiances grandma's maiden name.

I just want to know if you are sharing your name choices or not. I supposed the bonus is personalised baby shower gifts !

 

[mummyruston]

Have told a few people - but not mum or MIL as their opinions wound me up last time with my DD and they were very abrupt.

I've told close friends our girls name ( Edith ) but not our boys name because I know Quinn isn't that common and will get comments yet when baby is born and announced nobody will comment.

 

[ellahopesky]

Absolutely not, people are less likely to say such negative things if you announce once baby is born and personally it really upsets me when i struggle with names and every suggestion gets shot down by every man and his dog lol. This way i can't be persuaded to change my mind! x

 

[jlw617]

We have but I think it's because we've gotten to a point in our lives where we just don't care if people like it or not don't know if it's because this is our 3rd or that we thought we'd never have anymore or we're older now and just don't care haha, either way it's pretty freeing, I could tell my brother who I'm pretty close to didn't seem to fond of the name but I didn't really care

 

[LoraLoo]

Absolutely love your chosen names. We keep our names a surprise x

 

[DAISYPRENCESS]

I did not. And people could not understand me.

 

[Alea]

Our families knew but we decided not to share names with anyone else.

 

[SparklesHeart]

We never tell, i prefer to see the baby before i 100% commit to a name.

 

[stiletto_mom]

Nope. Lips zipped until the baby arrives.

 

[jessmke]

We are also not telling anyone the baby's name until the baby is born.

 

[BethMaassen]

We are going to announce our baby name when we find out the gender.

 

[staralfur]

We didn't tell anyone because we didn't know what her name was going to be until she was born! We told our parents which names we were considering but no one else.

I liked that no one knew what her name was until she was born, everyone knew that she was a she at 20 weeks so it was nice to still have a bit of a surprise after the birth.

Love Elowyn, by the way!

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Whenever we do get pregnant and we plan on doing a gender reveal party.. We will announce the name then...

 

[o0oCharlieo0o]

Im hoping i dont tell people but unfortunately im one of them people that cant help but talk about things like that lol as soon as someone asks me i tell them the names i like, we havent decided on a name yet, and i stupidly still talk my my mum about baby names even though shes already offended me with my boy name idea of Parker, and then i told her my OH wanted maison and she was horrible about that too even though id already told her she had upset me when she done it with the name Parker, so hopefully i dont talk to my mum about the names again lol im sick of peoples nasty opinions, why cant they just say something like 'I'm not keen' why be rude? Or better yet dont say anything because it is not their baby to name and i didnt ask for opinions lol, lets hope i learn to keep my mouth shut until baby is born lol! Ps i love your baby name choices, especially Harrison i love love love that name

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Im hoping i dont tell people but unfortunately im one of them people that cant help but talk about things like that lol as soon as someone asks me i tell them the names i like, we havent decided on a name yet, and i stupidly still talk my my mum about baby names even though shes already offended me with my boy name idea of Parker, and then i told her my OH wanted maison and she was horrible about that too even though id already told her she had upset me when she done it with the name Parker, so hopefully i dont talk to my mum about the names again lol im sick of peoples nasty opinions, why cant they just say something like 'I'm not keen' why be rude? Or better yet dont say anything because it is not their baby to name and i didnt ask for opinions lol, lets hope i learn to keep my mouth shut until baby is born lol! Ps i love your baby name choices, especially Harrison i love love love that name

I hope this doesn't sound too krass, but I still don't understand why people feel the need to comment on a name you pick for your child.. If they want to pop the kid out of their vagina then they can have a say...

 

[Loozle]

We never tell, i prefer to see the baby before i 100% commit to a name.

This exactly. Rebecca was going to be named Ava until she was born and it didn't suit her.

 

[Lucy139]

I personally wouldn't and didn't because I think it ruins the surprise especially if everyone already knows the sex and then the name... It's like oh baby .... has been born with no suspense lol... Xx

 

[m nonie]

We have told family a few of our choices, but won't decide on the final choice till after she's born . As they really don't like any of our chosen names so far :/.

 

[hanni]

I only told my closest friend so I could get honest opinions on them. Other than that though we didn't because people always have far too much to say about them. The downside of that is you get people constantly suggesting names to you. In the end we just refused to talk about baby names with anyone. You can't win!

 

[Rachel89]

No, we did not. And we are not planning to this time either. I honestly do not care what others think, but I do hate the negative energy you can get from people when they will go against the name, and some people make it a whole big deal. And I find that no matter if you care or not, it taints, it taints the name, it taints a part of your pregnancy. This is my experience, and our choice as parents, and they can find out after the baby is born.

People are not good at keeping their mouth shut, and want to vomit their unsolicited advice all over pregnant ladies and mom's. I wouldn't mind suggestion's, but it's the people that make it serious and nasty that I have a problem with, thankfully I haven't experienced this myself, but I know it could have happened.

I also do not discuss much of my plans with others (what I want for my birth, baby wearing etc.), since a lot of the people I know are very old fashioned and just do not understand.