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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not trying to be rude here, but how do people find themselves in this situation? If you had a routine healthy pregnancy and found out that you were pregnant at the typical time, then you had many months to choose a name. You didn’t start feeling like this name wasn’t so great in all of those months?[/quote]

I’m wondering this too. Is it because you chose a trendy name? Caved to the spouse? I don’t get it. I’ve never felt this even for an instant. But we chose very classic names. I only have two kids, but even if I had needed to name 10 kids I had a list a mile long of classic names I would have been happy to name my child. My kids are teenagers now and I still love not only their names, but all the other names we considered using back then. [/quote]
I can only speak for myself because I don’t know the OP’s situation. My husband was set on a really awful, trendy preppy name for our son (Brooks) and wouldn’t consider anything else. He told his parents that this was going to be our son’s name before it was even agreed upon. I was heavily pregnant and didn’t feel like debating him over it so just gave in.

That’s where my baby name regret stems from.[/quote]

Somewhat similar situation. [b]I don't hate the name but the process of choosing it was incredibly frustrating, with my husband just deciding independently that it was the baby's name and nothing I said could convince him to consider another name.[/b] I had a difficult pregnancy and no other support at the time, and I just didn't have anymore fight in me.

The name suits our child and is not a terrible name (which is why I won't say what it is) but[b] I just didn't feel like I was able to participate in choosing my own child's name.[/b] It's the process that makes me feel regret, more than the name itself.[/quote]
People freak out at the slightest suggestion that a woman wants even a little more say in choosing a baby’s first name, but it seems like completely controlling the entire naming process is a common theme with husbands and nobody bats an eyelid, wow. Moms are expected to compromise, but dads are allowed to completely ignore the other parent’s wishes. I would be furious. Hugs![/quote]

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