Comments on: What’s In A Name? http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/05/07/whats-in-a-name/ News & Information about parenting, pregnancy, and Babies Online's services Fri, 16 May 2008 07:13:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: AndreAnna http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/05/07/whats-in-a-name/#comment-6155 AndreAnna Thu, 08 May 2008 14:58:38 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/?p=2651#comment-6155 Charlotte was easy because it was the city we were flying to when we found out we were pregnant. We had chosen Beckett as an alternative if she were a boy. Her middle name is Rayne. No familial connection. We just like it. We are having that boy this time around but are not using the cast-off name. Though I still love it, it was for Charlotte, if that makes any sense whatsoever. We threw names out at each other but never really discussed anything. Then we found out this one was a boy, and my husband said "What about Sawyer?" And I said sure. That was that. Pretty uneventful eh? His middle name will be East- my grandfather's middle name, which just sounds totally badass to me. :) I didn't think about flow as much as I did on whether or not the name suited our children. Something unique, but not weird. Charlotte was easy because it was the city we were flying to when we found out we were pregnant. We had chosen Beckett as an alternative if she were a boy. Her middle name is Rayne. No familial connection. We just like it.

We are having that boy this time around but are not using the cast-off name. Though I still love it, it was for Charlotte, if that makes any sense whatsoever.

We threw names out at each other but never really discussed anything. Then we found out this one was a boy, and my husband said “What about Sawyer?” And I said sure. That was that.

Pretty uneventful eh? His middle name will be East- my grandfather’s middle name, which just sounds totally badass to me. :)

I didn’t think about flow as much as I did on whether or not the name suited our children. Something unique, but not weird.

]]> By: Melissa Haynie http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/05/07/whats-in-a-name/#comment-6101 Melissa Haynie Wed, 07 May 2008 18:35:25 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/?p=2651#comment-6101 I can relate to your struggle completely. When our first daughter was born we named her a name that I had loved since high-school... so when she passed away we were striken. Our name was lost. When I went into preterm labor with my son we changed the name so as not to have the same problem... We regreted doing that when he was born and passed away. With our second daughter we agonized... over boys and girls names. Even though we changed his name when Aidan was born, Liam was still the name intended and so we had a hard time going back to it. We ended up with a girl and went with a name that is similar to our first daughters name. I don't know what we would do for names if we got pregnant again :O I can relate to your struggle completely. When our first daughter was born we named her a name that I had loved since high-school… so when she passed away we were striken. Our name was lost. When I went into preterm labor with my son we changed the name so as not to have the same problem… We regreted doing that when he was born and passed away. With our second daughter we agonized… over boys and girls names. Even though we changed his name when Aidan was born, Liam was still the name intended and so we had a hard time going back to it. We ended up with a girl and went with a name that is similar to our first daughters name. I don’t know what we would do for names if we got pregnant again :O

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