It seems to me that attendance on my blog is up lately. Could it be you are hoping to stop by and see a baby announcement? Ya, me too.
While I have you all here, I might as well find out the answer to a question that causes much controversy. Do you tell the name of the unborn baby? We have chosen to keep our name for the baby girl a secret and many people have told me that is “just cruel.” So, I am curious how many people out there tell the baby’s name or not. There is also the gender issue. We know we are having a girl and wanted to find out, but many do not. What a surprise that would be!
I am trying to keep busy, but getting quite annoyed with more signs of early/false labor. I’ve been cleaning like crazy and my husband commented that I have been more productive in the last 2 weeks than I have been in the entire last 2 years. I think this may be true as every day I find another project to tackle. Today it was defrosting the freezer, yesterday I stained a shelf for above the baby’s changing table…. I am running out of 9-month-pregnant-friendly projects, so pray this baby comes soon.
11 comments:
Alysun, we are so annoying and "just cruel" because we have three kids and didn't find out the gender of any of them until birth and also didn't disclose names before their births. I remember discussing names of our firstborn and saying we'd probably name him Ryan (which we did) if he was a boy but since we didn't find out his sex beforehand it was still a surprise. There is something so secret and FUN about waiting to announce the name. I think it adds to the excitement. I'm one that's lurking lots to see that baby girl post! I'm excited for you and your family!
I can't say that I think it is cruel, but it is kind of annoying. I would prefer it if you just lied to us and told us that you didn't know what you were going to name her. I can live with that. When my sister-in-law was pregnant, she and her husband only told their 4 year old son the name of the coming baby. It was totally annoying that the 4 year old knew the name (and bragged about it!!), but I didn't.
As for the gender thing . . . I was pretty surprised when I found out I was having my second boy! I found out 21 weeks before he was born, but I was still very surprised. I think some people are a little weird about that. I don't care if a person finds out early or finds out in the glorious moment. It is still a surprise!!
Yeah, I'll be stalking your blog. I can't wait!!
At this point in my life, there are pregnant women all around me. First of all, most everyone finds out the sex nowadays. It just helps with painting nurserys and getting gifts for the shower. Unless you want everything green and yellow, this is a positive thing to find out! Plus, I love that you are keeping the name a secret. What if you change your mind last minute after seeing baby? Or, horror of horror's you announce our name and then you find out that someone else before you names their baby the same??? The secret is fine, the announcement can wait. This girl (me) would do it exactly the same way as you are.
Or what if you've had the baby's name picked out for two years then decide you hate it and have to pick something else? Or your mother says something like "oh, that's funny. What are you really going to name him?" I think you are right to keep it a secret. But I think every one would agree that your sister should know...
Alysun,
I have been checking your blog all the time!
As for the names, we told ours behorehand and then I wished we hadn't. I just didn't want everyone elses opinion! Next time, I think we won't tell, but who knows because I'm not very good at keeping secrets. It was never a question whether or not we would find out the gender, I wanted to be prepared.
good for you. You don't tell anyone what you get them for Christmas do you? No, you wait for the package to be unwrapped. This is the ultimate gift from God. In today's society we "peek" to see the gender. (I'm an offender of that) So let there be some extra excitement to your new gift and share the name after the new special package is here. Blessings with your new arrival and God Bless the rest of your family while your waiting.
Lisa Lunde
I agree with my Tawny! I have told her that I thought it was important that you keep the name to yourself until the baby comes because I saw too many times where someone told the name of their baby if/when they had one & then that person had a baby just before them & used that name!! AS long as you, Jeff & Emma like it, that's all that matters.
Love,
Aunt Dianne
I think it's neat that you are leaving the name for after that sweet little girl is born. It's just starting to get a bit more popular in our part of Canada to find out the gender of the baby before it's born but we opted to wait. There were a few times I could see it being helpful to know but I like those kind of surprises to much. I figured after enduring labor I'd want as much as possible to look forward to. Holding the baby for the first time, finding out it's a boy, answering the doctor when she asks, "what's this little guy's name?" I don't think what you've decided to do is annoying at all. What I think could be considered far worse is having to endure all those horrifying labor stories that come out (pardon the pun) :) when people find out you're pregnant. Are those supposed to be encouraging...'cause they weren't. :)
Can't wait to hear that the blessed event has occured. Blessings on you as you wait. Love you, manda
There are so many opinions on this topic, but great thing is everyone get to do what they want!
I don't think you keeping her name a secret is annoying at all. It's YOUR baby! We didn't find out the sex with Will or Wyatt and we didn't tell names with either of them too. Everything was a surpise to everyone on the day they were born. With Anna we did everything completely different. I really wanted to know if I could get rid of all the tubs and tubs of boy clothes or if I needed to keep them. It was just more conveinent to find out for our third. When we found out she was a girl in the u/s room it was seriously one of the best moments of my life. Just as exciting as it was when the boys were born plus, I wasn't all drugged up from having my c-section and Craig and I were both laughing and crying at the same time. We pretty much knew what her name would be if she was a girl, but we waited about a month til we were SURE before we told everyone. The only reason we told was because we KNEW FOR SURE that's what she would be named and we didn't care what other people said. With the boys I didn't want anyone's opinion. With her, I didn't care. I am really glad we did it both ways.
SO there's my opinion :)
How did the defrost go?
Fun reading the comments! Believe it or not even though I may try to get the name out of Emma I totally agree with you. You really don't want anyone else's opinion on the name of your precious child, even if they give it accidentally like I did with poor Wesley! I had grown to appreciate it.. but I must say I love Nathaniel, Maybe because it rhymes with Daniel one of the best names of all time.
Benton has named her Gwaky Sister.
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