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I haven't had to yet but I know it's going to be a huuuuuge struggle! I can't even name pets without agonizing over it for weeks. Thank goodness my SO got his "I'm going to name my son after me" thing out of the way with his first wife, because it just personally doesn't work for me. Way too confusing, especially since there's no way to shorten it in his case!

I have a few boy names picked out, but for me the girl names are hard. Everything I like is either too popular (Ella) or I can think of horrible nicknames for them (Aria).

It actually ended up being a lot easier for us than I thought. We agreed to name our LO after a deceased family member, which is part of Jewish tradition. So we made a list of our deceased grandparents and great grandparents, and I happen to love all old people names, so DH picked his favorite and I agreed! I know it's not going to be so easy next time because DH doesn't love all old people names and the rest of the names on the list are too old for him.

I agree! We are having a really tough time choosing a boy's name and it's starting to stress me out. I don't like anything we've found online or in a book... nothing feels "right."

We had to stop discussing until we knew she was a she. It was too miserable and argument-provoking.

Once we knew it was a girl, we narrowed down to about 3 and it took us a week to pick one.

We were team green with both pregnancies so we didn't get the chance to "narrow it down" to one gender. For our first, we had decided on the girl's name but I thought were still undecided on boy (we had narrowed it down to two); however in video taken during my induction DH said we were looking forward to finding out if baby was either Evelyn or Thomas so apparently he had made the final decision on boy but didn't tell me (which was fine I liked either boy name about the same). Turns out Evelyn was the winner, although both DH and I thought we were going to have a boy.

This time around I have a front runner for girl and DH is supposed to be coming up with boy names but is dragging his feet. I keep trying to get him to just use one of the two from last time but he can't decide. We are split this time with me thinking it is a girl and him thinking it is a boy so we'll find out in about 4weeks.

Don't stress too much, I've had two family members who selected their baby's name after the A/S only to change their minds upon delivery.

@coacheswife123: Even if you don't like the name in the end, just keep on fighting.... it helps me with his name now like "at least we didn't name him Dante's Peak or D'artagnan" I'm becoming at peace with the name Gabriel (that I initially hated) because my LO is my son, and I love him. AND I didn't just give in immediately.

Plus... maybe I get to choose the next one (right? right?).

@yoursilverlining: It's cool that you could tell when you saw her!

@yoursilverlining: I have a feeling that's what we'll do, too. Narrow it down to 2 or 3 top names, and then decide what he/she looks like once born. I've spoken to a lot of parents who did the same thing!

I came up with a list of about 30 names because my husband didn't have the patience to look through an entire book of names. He immediately picked 1 favorite with 2 others that he also liked. In the end, he kept calling her the 1 favorite name and it kind of stuck!