So overwhelmed

I’ve always been obsessed with names, ever since middle school I’ve been making lists for my future children. Now I’m finally pregnant and I feel so completely overwhelmed! I realize I’m jumping the gun (I’m only 9 weeks along) but how do you chose the name your child (and eventually adult) will be called for the rest of its life?!

It is a big challenge, but thankfully you have 9 months to work through the decision. Take it in small steps, make lots of lists, communicate with your partner, and take breaks from the process to get some perspective. It can also be an incredibly fun process! Good luck!

I get this way… I have lists and favorites and love talking names… then I get pregnant and it feels very overwhelming and I “hate” every name! It’s alot to decide, but like zaelia said, take it step by step. For me, when I have found my girls names, I just KNOW it! It’s a feeling I can’t describe. Sometimes it happens the first time I hear or think about the name and sometimes it happens after months of talking about the same 3 or 4 names! If you are feeling a little burned out by talking names, take a break and enjoy the pregnancy and come back to names in a few days or weeks. you will eventually get there.

p.s. sometimes finding out the gender is enough to get people to feel a little more sure of a choice they were considering previously. having a definite name for baby makes it fun when the little one is still inside.

I wrote all mine down and just STOPPED thinking about it. Eventually when you think about the baby some will cross your mind and some won’t. [name]Don[/name]'t keep going back to the list and let them come up naturally. After a while (in my case a little over a month) you start forgetting which other names were on the list and some start standing out. In our case as soon as we learned she was a girl on the u/s my husband suddenly just KNEW who she was and won’t look at more names, and that name was one that kept coming to mind during the first half of my pregnancy. We aren’t making it official till she is born (the plan anyways haha) and are working on middle names now. Like crunchy said, knowing the gender helped a LOT in our case. We were so SURE it was a boy and had boy names without issue and a huge girls list. When we found out she was a girl, the clouds cleared :slight_smile:

Good luck and congrats!