Did you tell anyone the name of your baby before he/she was born?

[funnychamp]

we told only close ones..

 

[Polly]

Haha! That's so true.

 

[mintycat]

I told everyone too once we decided on the English name. For this one, I still haven't decided on a name.

 

[Babyface]

We knew the name of our first at our 20 week scan so did tell a few people but only close family. For our second we still hadn't decided 6 weeks after the birth so really didn't have the chance to tell anybody. He was known as "Baby surname" on all the paper work before then ... Hee hee!

 

[wittlewabbit]

Oh yes....this really makes me wanna rant .... some people are so insensitive and they would pass comments like---isnt that a girl-s name ( when it is so obvious that it is a guy's)or relatives would even suggest some names ( that you dont like---but dont refuse infront of them) ---as if the baby was theirs in their tummy.

 

[capital]

I didn't becasue I think once you do everyone seems to give their unwanted opinion. Once the baby is born and the name is said, no one can really say anything. They just pretend to like it if they don't. The inlaws picked out several chinese names and we picked from yjr list

 

[milb]

We didn't want to tell to avoid unwanted opinions. But at the end, we couldn't decide a name until we were on the way to the hospital for delivery!

 

[ManMan]

My husband chose the English name and he asked me to arrange for a Chinese name. I asked a fortuneteller and he gave me three choices, and that was about a week after he was born. My husband had two choices and he told me his choices on the taxicab ride to the hospital the night before our son was born. But we didn't tell anyone else before he was born. Fact was, we're telling members of my family that the Chinese name was suggested by my hubby's older brother. They would think that my consulting a fortuneteller was a costly, unnecessary thing, and why didn't I ask them for suggestions...

 

[rachrobin]

I am 5 months pregnant and my husband gets uncomfortable talking about names. We know we are having a girl, but we are not sharing this news with our friends or family (all living overseas) so it will be a surprise. I don't want to receive mountains of pink clothes like I've seen happen to others!
Once we finally decide on the name, there is no way we will tell anyone until after the birth.

I should add hubby finds the name thing hard as he will go to great lengths to avoid disagreeing with his pregnant wife about anything at the moment!

 

[spockey]

I told one of my best girlfriend who was going to give birth 6 months before i did and she "stole" the name we had planned for our bub! Of course, it was hard to get mad as she was a best mate - the kind you've grown up with and shared everything with right up to graduation! We had to use it as a middle name instead and come up with a new one.

Needless to say, after this experience, none my girlpack gave away baby names! We were all preggers about 3-6 months apart!