We kept lo's name a secret until after she was born.
Planning on doing the same this time around too!
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Yup! We've shared our "short list" but no one knows that we've pretty much settled on a name.
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We kept our LOs name a secret until she was born...but we also didn't pick a name until we met her. We went to the hospital with three favorites picked out!
Next time around I think we will actually choose a name and tell close friends and family members who ask. It was really hard to get used to calling LO by her name because we hadn't said it AT ALL before she was born. Next time, I want to "get used to it" at first.
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When the time comes, we hope to be team green, so we won't have a final name picked out ahead anyway! We already have a couple for each gender that we love though & I might be open to sharing those with people.
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We plan on doing that. We plan on being Team Green, too.
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I think we'll keep the name a secret, especially since we've always planned on being team green, so everything will be a surprise!
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Nope. We have told people both times but only family and really close friends.
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Considering that we're Team Green, have barely thought about names, and the baby is due in under three months, it will be a "surprise." Meaning we're as clueless as everyone else!
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We were team green & kept our boy & girl name choice secret. I'm sure even if we do find out the gender of future kiddos we'll keep our name choice secret.
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We were team green, so people knew our options, but obviously didn't know what it would be.
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We were team green so we didn't have a set name anyway. We went in with a short list for either gender, and didn't share them, since we wanted to wait until we met him/her before we opted for one...and we could have still ended up choosing a different name altogether.
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Yup! It was super fun to "announce" her arrival by telling everyone her name for the first time.
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I wish we had. We shared a name we were just possibly thinking of, and everyone just ran with it and started calling her that. I keep trying to tell everyone that nothing is official until she is born and we meet her, but I guess it is too late to back peddle now. If any strangers ask at this point, I do not give the name.
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I regret telling people but always felt the need to when asked the question. Next time I will definitely keep it a secret and not reveal it until the baby is born. I hate hearing people criticize the names.
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If we settle on one, we'll tell our family/friends but it depends how solidly we feel about the names. I do think we already have a boy name and a girl name picked out, though.
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I would have liked to buy DH went ahead and emailed the ultrasound pics and the full name to everyone the day we got the scan!
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@chopsuey119: @Andrea: awww does that mean we won't get to hear the names and have to wait until the babies r born?
we did let people know the names we were thinking of for our twins, but we ended up not using them!
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We kept it a secret and I'm really glad about that.
I get weirded out when people tell me their babies' name before it is born, not sure why.
Main reason being that we didn't want any 'comments'.
Edit: but I think I told HB!
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@tequiero21: yes, not going to announce it here until after, sorry!
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We think we'll be team green, and I don't want to hear any opinions on names, so I imagine that when people close to us ask, we'll tell them our top few choices for each sex (even if we've already narrowed it down to one each). I can't imagine not telling my mom or best friend, but if their reactions were lukewarm it would drive me nuts!
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We shared with close family and friends.
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We are mostly keeping it secret. Each of our sisters knows the name but it'll be a surprise for everyone else at birth. HB folk might know it, but I've never typed it out. It feels a little jinxy writing it down.
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We kept our LO's name a surprise and we will probably do the same this time. We have lists but they are not narrowed down at all!
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Yes we kept it a secret last time and will again this time around. We didn't even share the short list because I didn't want any comments influencing our decision. We did wait until after LO was born to finalize our decision though.
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We're keeping the name and the gender a secret! From our family and friends anyway. It's driving my sisters crazy, they keep trying to read clues into everything. But I think it's super nice they'll have a surprise when she's born and it's been nice for DH and I to have a secret together too!
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I am awful at keeping secrets. We told people LO name as soon as we chose it. I liked it because we got used to the name and if people wanted to give us stuff with the babies name they could.
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Like @hillsy85 we've shared the short list but no one knows we already decided.
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If people ask we share. If they don't ask we don't share. My in laws don't want to know so we're keeping it a secret from them which is kinda fun
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We haven't told anybody and we won't until LO is born. We have a top 5 list and we haven't told anyone IRL any of those names either. DH feels really strongly about keeping it a secret.
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Kept it a secret, because I didn't want anyone's opinions on it ahead of time. I figured once he was finally here, people wouldn't have the guts to tell me if they like it or not to my face
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We told once we had settled on a name and knew we weren't changing it. Most of the time I had wished we had kept it a secret because it felt awkward when co-workers and random people would use his name when talking to me...like they knew him already. Next time I'm thinking of keeping it a secret or saying its between certain names.
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We're definitely keeping it a secret because we are pretty much decided and not looking for any input! My husband is also weirded out by calling the baby by it's name before it's born, which doesn't really bother me, but because of that we don't even say the names we have picked out too much so it's not that difficult to keep the secret.
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we've told everyone. we're 100% set on the name and we're in love with it, so there was no reason to wait!
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We did not tell anyone and I am so glad we did it that way! As others have mentioned, I just did not want to hear or be swayed by feedback from random people--even if we had a short list or whatever.
We began calling LO by her name when talking with just DH and I but had to be careful not to do so when family or other people were around. We did tell our parents that we had (finally) chosen a name, around 32-34 weeks, but didn't spill the beans until LO arrived.
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We kept both our boy and girl names top secret to avoid people saying anything that we didn't like or want to hear after we made our decision.
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No, we told everyone.
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we've picked a name, and so far our parents/my bro and a few of our close friends know.
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There are so few surprises left in pregnancy and birth. The name was secret.
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Oh yes. I think half the fun of hearing about a new baby is finding out the name for the first time. Besides, don't need any opinions if they don't like the name.
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We didn't, and I'm glad we didn't. We got so many cute personalized things for her. Especially because her name is Rose we got a lot of things with roses on it too.
Next time we're going team green though so we won't know the name. We'll probably share what it will be if it's a boy or a girl though.... we're not very secretive. If people don't like the names, we don't really care.
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