*October Bumpkins*2014* 43 Babies Born!

[kel21]

I had a dream recently that I had a boy. I gave birth at home on our bed and after he was born, our dd was cuddling him and wouldn't let anyone else have a cuddle lol very strange

Dh really does love the name Jackson but he'd like to spell it Jaxon. What do you ladies think, I've heard it's become very popular in the US so does mean it will get more popular here in the uk do you think? Also how would you spell it? Jackson, Jaxon or Jaxson?

We had both girls and boys names by now with ds and dd and so far we have none we both agree on for this little one!

When I think about whether to spell a popular name the same as everyone else or make it different I think of my best friend. Her mom decided to give her name a little twist and growing up the poor girl could never find anything with her name on it! No mugs, pens, necklaces, little license plates for her bike (that one really bugged her! Lol) and she hated that growing up! Just something to think about

 

[AllStar]

When I think about whether to spell a popular name the same as everyone else or make it different I think of my best friend. Her mom decided to give her name a little twist and growing up the poor girl could never find anything with her name on it! No mugs, pens, necklaces, little license plates for her bike (that one really bugged her! Lol) and she hated that growing up! Just something to think about

Thank you

I could never get anything like that growing up either, neither could my brother or sister. We don't have wacky, odd names just not common enough. My older two childrens names are never available on things like that either - again just not common enough round here - so I'd actually prefer a name that wasn't available lol I wouldn't like for my youngest to be able to get all these things and not the oldest two. It didn't really bother me growing up, I liked having a more unusual name so hopefully they'll be ok with it too. Thanks a lot for thinking of it though

 

[Mushymilkfor2]

I had a dream recently that I had a boy. I gave birth at home on our bed and after he was born, our dd was cuddling him and wouldn't let anyone else have a cuddle lol very strange

Dh really does love the name Jackson but he'd like to spell it Jaxon. What do you ladies think, I've heard it's become very popular in the US so does mean it will get more popular here in the uk do you think? Also how would you spell it? Jackson, Jaxon or Jaxson?

We had both girls and boys names by now with ds and dd and so far we have none we both agree on for this little one!

When I think about whether to spell a popular name the same as everyone else or make it different I think of my best friend. Her mom decided to give her name a little twist and growing up the poor girl could never find anything with her name on it! No mugs, pens, necklaces, little license plates for her bike (that one really bugged her! Lol) and she hated that growing up! Just something to think about

I second this. My name in general is not that common, so chances of my getting a mug or keychain weren't that high to begin with. But there were places I would find my name, but my parents spelled my name differently. And yes, this always bugged me.

Also the constantly having to tell people how to spell my name has really gotten so old, that unless it's a document or time that matters I don't even bother. And really, it's all said the same, what is so wrong with traditional spelling?

 

[rbourre]

My daughters name is Aimee. We didn't purposely change the spelling of Amy, she was named after someone. My husband is half french and they spell it Aimee. We haven't even started thinking about names this time. We aren't even thinking about it until we know if it's a boy or a girl. The only thing we have decided is a boy middle name will be David after my dad.

Aimee was practicing being a big sister this morning. She loves to feed her baby. I can't wait to see how she is as a big sister. My neighbour had a friend over last week with her 7 month old and Aimee was so cute with her. She gave her a bottle and was playing and talking to her.

 

[ljo1984]

I have an Imogen and a Freya already and these are my lists

Boys

Nate
Ethan (had this name for the last two too but I love Nate now aswell :-/)
Tristan (not totally sold so probably not)

Patrick would be the middle name as per family tradition on hubby's side


Girls

Isabelle
Madeleine (maddie)
Lottie
Amelie

 

[Kittycat155]

I love the name Tristan but never met one person with that name.

Odd about the syrup from fruits cause that has been my go to food in am. Usually peaches but I drink a bit of syrup first.

Aimee looks to be a great big sister!

 

[MamaMac123]

Oh I love the name "Lottie"! I wanted a girl to be Charlotte and call her Lottie and my DH vetoed it so sad.

I love Tristan as well. I knew a little guy named Tristan when I first worked in day care. He was a cutie

I was actually thinking about the whole name on merchandise thing this week. I watch a little girl named "Kyla" and they can never find stuff. This week we found a necklace that actually said her name and she went nuts and bought it with her tooth fairy money haha

I'm Amanda so I've never had trouble finding my name but to be honest I've never bothered with that stuff much. What bugged me was that in school there were always 2-3 other Amanda's in class. From day 1 of kindergarten I had to be Amanda W. I hated that! I think that's why I tend to prefer less common names and unique spellings. I don't like far out names but avoid the top 10 lists for sure.

Although that said, while most of my baby list names are less popular the two names I'm going with if it's boy/girl twins are both totally mainstream haha so there you go!

 

[La Mere]

Well, I would love to try to use the name Jackson some how and my mom has been pushing for it since I was pregnant with my first. It just doesn't flow with our last name which is Wilson. I was thinking if it was a girl I would kind of compromise Jacqueline for a middle name as that is the most feminine form I can find that is close to Jackson. It's really hard to tell my mom just straight out that we're not going to use Jackson (It's my maiden name, so it's not like I don't like it!) I've just tried to find ways of making it work and none of the names including use as first and middle name don't sound right. I feel bad, but I just don't know what to do... :/

Oh, I love the name Tristan! And, I actually do know someone named Tristan, lol. There are a lot of names that I like and have wanted to use for my other two but DH pretty much vetoed them straight away! Like when my son was born, I had wanted to name him Samuel Vaughn.. DH agreed on Samuel but didn't like Vaughn (I was so upset), so we searched and searched and finally found a name that fit well with Samuel that we both liked.. so our son was named Samuel Owen lol, why are men so picky?

 

[GeralynB]

Officially 2nd trimester for me! Woohoo!

 

[ljo1984]

Lol I don't really like Charlotte, all the ones I know are really spoilt brats ha ha but love lottie.

My hubby didn't like Freya, it was a name I liked with our first, so it took me till 20 week in second pregnancy till he came around to it lol.

Middles name we already have are
Imogen grace and Freya Emilia
I like "posh" names, I'm far from posh though lol.

 

[kiki28]

My little one has a name already that OH and me love . . . Ethan Michael

It's not too unusal but not very common around my way so I'm totally in love with it

 

[ljo1984]

Ethan is a fab choice

 

[CharmedKirsty]

I have an Imogen and a Freya already and these are my lists

Boys

Nate
Ethan (had this name for the last two too but I love Nate now aswell :-/)
Tristan (not totally sold so probably not)

Patrick would be the middle name as per family tradition on hubby's side


Girls

Isabelle
Madeleine (maddie)
Lottie
Amelie

I liked Nate but my husband wasn't keen. So no names for a boy.

 

[RedheadBabies]

My dd is Mallory, and we are struggling with a name for #2. I'm very traditional in terms of names and spellings. I don't want my kids having people mispelling their names their entire lives. This Baby is also the 23 great grandchild on my dad's side. A lot names I would consider have already been used within the family. I'm a little weird too, and check all names I like on the SSA baby names list. If it's in the top 100, I won't consider it. I like uncommon, but not what I would consider off the wall, IMO. So far we've tossed around Cassidy for a girl, but don't really have anything for a boy. We also don't have much in the line of family names I like, and having a short last name that starts with a vowel is just another curveball in the name game.

 

[cntrygrl]

ljo-- My youngest brothers name is Nathan.

Mushymilk-- I'm doing Margaret after my great grandmother as well.

So many great name choices by everyone.

 

[RedheadBabies]

Names of grandchildren and great grand children in my family:



Joshua
Nathan
Michael
Daniel
Timothy
Amy
Sara
Dana
Sidney
Samuel
Kyle
Jacob
Zachary
Tanner
Brieanna
Brandon
Catherine
Travis
Stephanie
Dominic
Skye
Ethan
Madeline
Ian
Levi
Caleb
Brody

I'm sure I've missed a few since there are so many...

 

[Loopy Laura]

We are thinking fairly traditional names. For a girl we like Chloe, Lucy and Emily. Middle name either Ella or Elena (but not if we go for Emily!)

For a boy our favourite at the moment is Benjamin but possibly also Marcus. We are struggling for boys names but the middle name would be Christopher who was my dad (passed away 5 years ago).

 

[Mushymilkfor2]

Redhead that is a lot of grand children! On my husband's moms side we are giving them their second and on my moms side this will be the first!

I'll be giving my great grandparents their third great great though.

I'm loving all these name choices though!

 

[ToughhGal]

We chose Priscilla Evangeline, uncertain for boy.

 

[Laelani]

Yayyy for the gender reveals!!! Congrats to all!

For names I am pretty certain we are leaning to Emily Sophia. Unless we find something else we both like...or it is a boy