If you didn't name your baby until birth or later...

Did you have a list to take to the hospital/birthing center/your refrigerator with you? Did you just meet your kid and know instantly what his or her name was? If you and your partner each had lists you combined, did you fight over whose name you used? I think with this baby we're going to wait to meet her until we name her. We've decided to each make a 3 name long list and combine them to take to the hospital and then choose after we've hung out with her some, but I think DH thinks there'll just be a huge fight and is under the impression that I'll just pick whatever name I want and not give him any say. If you've done this or something similar did it all end up working out okay? Or was it all tears and yelling and annoyingness while you were trying to recover?

We have middle names narrowed down to 2 that will basically be decided by the first name that's chosen and what sounds the best, so at the very least we won't have to fight about that.

Middle names were decided. Had two names picked out an once I saw her, knew the other didn't suit!

We had a list of three girls names, Addison Peyton or Skyelar, and two boys names, Emerson or Thomas. When DD was born we said one of the names out loud and it just stuck. So she became Skyelar  

We had made lists over the pregnancy, we had a girl name picked, but no firm boy name..... of course the baby was a boy, lol (we didn't find out the gender).

It was so thrilling and exciting for us when choosing a name. Not traumatic at all. He didn't have a name until a few hours before we left the hospital.

We narrowed it down to Dexter Freeman, Freeman Dexter, Victor Freeman, and Adam, lol.


He ended up a Dexter Freeman.  . Everyone was in such suspense, first over the gender, then over the name. So fun. Glad we did it that way.

I have a list of 3 names. My husband refuses to pick one until she is born. -_-

im kind of having the same thoughts.
we had DSs name picked out from the very beginning.
that was easy, but now i have 2 names but really love one over the other and DH is purposefully not picking one because he knows its annoying me lol.

The people that did it without any problems- did you agree on possible names together? I'm just slightly nervous that since we're choosing names we like as individuals instead of together, it'll be harder to make a decision. But I'm REALLY hoping we meet her and just know!

With our 2nd child, we were stuck on the name Xavier Lee....everyone knew that's what we were going to name him, and we were so sure we were....Well when he was born he definitely did not look like a Xavier to us so we had to hurry up and think of a different name and ended up naming him Dominick Lee instead, but he was not named until we were about to get discharged from the hospital 3 days after his birth. Now with our daughter, we honestly could not come up with just one name we really liked....So when she was born, My 2 cousins who were at the hospital with us, DH and I all took 2 names we liked and put them in a hat and drew...and that's how we named our daughter Emma Rose.

We had the middle name set, and a small list of first name ideas we just kept mentally. We wanted to see him before we settled on one, and when we finally got to spend time with him, we both said the same name so we picked it!

Quoting Household 6:" The people that did it without any problems- did you agree on possible names together? I'm just slightly ... [snip!] ... like as individuals instead of together, it'll be harder to make a decision. But I'm REALLY hoping we meet her and just know!"

We had agreed on possible names together, yes.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Household 6:</b>" The people that did it without any problems- did you agree on possible names together? I'm just slightly ... [snip!] ... like as individuals instead of together, it'll be harder to make a decision. But I'm REALLY hoping we meet her and just know!"</blockquote>



We would sit down together and bring up names. Some he liked, I didn't, and vice versa. But we found a bunch we both liked, which was nice. I can't imagine choosing a name that my husband hated, lol.

He hasn't really brought any new girl names to the table. He just shoots down the ones that I bring up haha.

we made our list this way :
I made a list of names I like, he went through and marked off the ones he did not like at all.. and he made a list and I marked of the ones I did not like at all.
its tacked to our fridge... about 20 diff names haha.

we will find out how it goes within the month I guess..but I imagine it should be pretty drama free and more fun/exciting than anything.

Quoting Little Bug's Momma:" we made our list this way : I made a list of names I like, he went through and marked off the ones he ... [snip!] ... out how it goes within the month I guess..but I imagine it should be pretty drama free and more fun/exciting than anything."

I'm excited to see what you end up choosing! I think if we did it that way though we would have no names =/

we did similar, i made a list and he crossed off the ones he didnt like, we ended up with 4 but two of them were middle name and two were first names. so.......we have two names and i want him to hurry up and pick.
the name we both really liked i crossed off because the bitch that almost ruined our relatonship named her kid that.