We went into the hospital for my induction with a list of 14 girls' names (and two favorite boys' names, but we were pretty sure it wasn't a boy). We didn't pick one beforehand for this reason.
We were able to eliminate half of them right off the bat (when she was born around 630 pm) because she didn't look like them (or seem like them). Over that first night, we talked and talked (since we couldn't sleep) and it eventually came down to two favored names- one I thought she looked like (and had felt like for me for months) and one he thought.
We couldn't bear the thought of disagreeing so strongly on something so important so we threw them both out, started from scratch around 6 the next morning, and a contender emerged that she looked like that hadn't even been on our list. My mom called around 10, yelled at me because the baby didn't have a name yet, and we looked at each other, nodded, and told Mom the name we'd picked. (See above if you're curious).
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Date: 2007-11-16 03:52 am (UTC)We were able to eliminate half of them right off the bat (when she was born around 630 pm) because she didn't look like them (or seem like them). Over that first night, we talked and talked (since we couldn't sleep) and it eventually came down to two favored names- one I thought she looked like (and had felt like for me for months) and one he thought.
We couldn't bear the thought of disagreeing so strongly on something so important so we threw them both out, started from scratch around 6 the next morning, and a contender emerged that she looked like that hadn't even been on our list. My mom called around 10, yelled at me because the baby didn't have a name yet, and we looked at each other, nodded, and told Mom the name we'd picked. (See above if you're curious).