So after 9 weeks in the hospital due to preeclampsia, we are finally home with:
[name]Marlena[/name] [name]Carys[/name] [name]Brooks[/name] R…n
She joins big sister [name]Geneva[/name] [name]Simone[/name] [name]Dunbar[/name] R…n.
I would like to thank the nameberry community for all the advice and help that you gave to me.
We went into the hospital with only one “maybe” name: [name]Indira[/name]. We felt like it was a lovely name but not quite right. We spent days agonizing over names and could not come up with any. When she was born, I was a bit panicked at the lack of a name, and started to randomly say names. We had passed over [name]Milena[/name], and I tried again with [name]Marlena[/name] (we say it like mar-lay-na), and it just clicked and felt right.
I 'm wondering how others have chose their babies names? have you always known? handed down family names? panicked and stressed like me?
Congratulations! [name]Marlena[/name] is such a lovely name! I think baby naming gets harder with each child. #1 (a girl) and #2 (a boy) were easy for us to name. I’m pregnant with #3 (a boy) and we are finding it difficult to find a perfect name for him!
[name]Marlena[/name] is a great name!!! Congrats =D
Our eldest son was supposed to be named [name]Samuel[/name] [name]Theodore[/name] - but after a 3D scan I panicked because he didn’t look anything like a [name]Samuel[/name] and I hated how everyone had automatically adopted “[name]Sam[/name]” as a nick name. So I panicked and went through every name website and book - handed my partner list after list after list and he veto’ed every single name I liked! Eventually we settled on the only name he had ever suggested and chose a middlename suggested by dad.
With our youngest, well that was a compromise! It was the number 1 name I wanted for our eldest, which my partner had vetoed. So in exchange for our eldest name, my partner allowed me to chose our second sons name, which I did. The middlename was one we both really loved and had considered using for our eldest ([name]Theodore[/name]).
The next one will be a nightmare of epic proportion as we just cannot agree on anything!!