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We knew first but not middle with my daughter. We're mostly decided on this little guy at 17 weeks

Yes with my son even tho I didn't think the name suited him for like a whole year. but still on the fence with son #2 due in a month

I knew LO1 but we hadn't agreed on LO2. When I held him I said "It's official, he's (DH's choice)". DH simultaneously said my choice. We went with DH's. I was feeling it in the moment.

I was sure about our boy name, but was still a little on the fence with our girl name. Glad we had a boy so we didn't have to debate it.

Neither time. LO1 we were team green, had an agreed upon girl name early on but never had a boy name we loved. It wasn’t that we couldn’t agree on something- neither of us loved anything. Luckily she was a girl but I’d been convinced she was a boy and we had two front runners that I’m glad we never had to use.
LO2 we knew was a girl from 20 weeks. Had a name we were planning on until 39 weeks when it felt wrong. DH came up with the first middle combo on the way to the hospital, and hour before she was born, but we didn’t officially name her for about half a day. I asked every nurse who came in which name she looked like.
Both times we never shared the names we were considering with family. I only told a couple close friends about LO2 potential name because it was the name of a friends kid and I wanted to let her know.

We felt like we needed to see him first to know which name fit. We also had a hard time agreeing...

@momlovescoffee: so similar. On the way to the hospital we were discussing but named still and not thrilled with any. But we agreed on the girl name a few months into the pregnant. It suits her perfectly.

With DS, he had a name about 7 years before he was conceived.
With DD, we had a short list, but she didn't have a name until the day after she was born.

With DS1 we had names picked before I was even pregnant. We were team green but did change the middle name close to the end.

With DS2 we still liked the same girls name but had a harder time with a boys name. We decided on a boys name after we knew that’s what we were having.

We came up with a boy and girl name before we knew the sex with my daughter. When we found out she was a girl at 14 weeks her name was set.

This pregnancy we haven't even talked about names. I'm 12 weeks and we'll find out the sex this week. I guess we'll start thinking about it once we know if it's a girl or boy. If it's a boy we might never have a name I really struggle with boy names.

LO1, son: Name picked out together 5 years before he was born.
LO2, daughter: Name picked out by me 10-15 years before she was born (started off as Julia around age 10, morphed into Juliana around age 15); luckily husband agreed

They seem to fit the connotations of their name very well, thankfully!

I have 2 more girl names and one more boy name and I am so sad that I will most likely never get to use them (kids are so dang expensive.) We'll see what God does about that!

We decided on her name a couple weeks after we found out she was a girl. And we told everyone the name as soon as we decided. Luckily, when she was born we knew we had made the right choice (we had narrowed it down to two very different names, and chose the "spunky" name of the two and it just fits her).

DS1 was a different name for about 4 hours before we realized it just wasn’t him, so we changed it to another favorite on our (very short) boy name list. It’s now the name of one his favorite little buddies.

DS2 was nameless for a good day and a half as DH and I were literally googling boy names until we finally settled on the only one we’d been able to agree on the whole pregnancy. I love it for him now.

I still have about 14 girl names we’ll probably never get to use!

We didn’t know the sex of LO.
We had a boy name for sure. We had 3 girl names and it was a game-time decision.
We ended up having a boy so luckily we didn’t have to stress about choosing!

I voted no, but it was yes the first time (decided when I was 7 months pregnant) but the second, we had a lot of trouble. We didn’t even really discuss names for the longest time. When I went into labor we had it narrowed down to two names which we both liked and each of us had flip flopped on which was our favorite. When she was born the nurse asked what her name was and we just sort of looked at each other and knew which one it was!

That being said, it took me a while to love the name as much as I loved our first, but that was just bc I hadn’t had as much time to get attached to it I think. It’s perfect now!

@mediagirl: Congratulations on your impending arrival! We found out our second baby was a girl at 20 weeks (first was a boy), and spent the next 15 weeks arguing about names . We had it down to a short list of 3, which my husband then threw out about two months before she was born. I was tearing my hair out and joked with our OB that he'd get the second vote in the operating room! Luckily, we finally agreed on her name with 4 weeks to spare. It suited her perfectly when she arrived, thankfully, but I truly feel your pain. It was so, so stressful! At the end of the day, you're the one who handled the pregnancy and is birthing the baby, so you get to pick (in my unbiased opinion ).

We walked in with a top 3 of paired first/middle names for both kids. When DD was born though, she just wasn't any of the top 3. I made DH call and tell unmarried SIL that we were stealing her "saved" name (spelled differently) because that was the only one that fit when we saw her.

@Corduroy: I did this too! I was feeling awesome after giving birth and said, 'yes he'll be [DH's name]' but a week later I kind of wished I'd picked my name lol.

I knew what name I wanted, but technically we went into it deciding to wait to see DD before deciding on her name. I was annoyed our nurses all gave us a hard time for waiting until DD was 24 hours old before giving them her name. We cannot be in that small of a minority that they would make such a big deal over it.

We had a name, but didn't tell anyone and didn't "make the call" until about half an hour after she was born. But the nurses told me I was the only person on the recovery floor that had a name for their baby. There were 5 others still deciding, so in my experience, it was super common to take time figuring it out.

Yes, absolutely. We found out LO was a girl at 12 weeks, and the night we got the call I suggested a combination of variations of family names to DH that he loved, and that was that. We told everyone pretty much immediately, as I was having a difficult pregnancy and being able to speak about LO by name was really helpful to me during that time.

(luckily the name really fit her once she was born!)