Wait until bubs arrives and see if ot suits her. And definitely take your time. It might not click right away! It took us about 3 days to name my daughter even though we went with our front runner. It just didn't click at first, but now I can't imagine her with any other name 🥰
Had that throughout my 1st pregnancy, we stuck with the name because my wife loved it and now my daughter is almost 5 and the name suits her so well I couldn't imagine having named her anything else
I felt like that the whole first year of my little girls life 😂 not because I wasn’t sure on it, just because it felt weird to say, and I felt weird that I’d named someone 😂🤷🏻♀️ I think if you keep saying it you’ll feel more comfortable ☺️
I took 2/3 names with me in my head for baby (we didn’t find out the gender). When I saw her, I knew her name right there and then 💕 I had no real attachment to any name in pregnancy, haven’t this time either. Saying them out loud doesn’t do anything for me, I don’t feel a connection or emotion to any in particular. I have to have a look at baby to know 😊
My son is 13 and I still think his middle and first name should have been flipped, but his dad chose. He is who he is now though and I rarely call him by his real name anyway.
Isabel is really cute! Honestly I sometimes wish I picked a different name for my daughter but I still love the name and learn to love it even more cause my daughter makes the name special and beautiful.
I felt like that after my first was born. We had decided really early on in the pregnancy and I had a nagging feeling we may have chosen wrong because we chose so quickly/early. Took a couple months to really feel like it was her name. Now I’m so thankful we chose it because I couldn’t imagine her with any other name. I also had the same feeling with my current pregnancy. We chose the name (my favorite from our list), used it for a few days, and it just wasn’t right. We’ve now changed our decision to the one on our list that did feel right and I am so much more at peace about it now.
This exact same thing happened to me with a boys name the other day I was so excited about, Banks, but then at the library I heard this mom yelling out the same name to her son and it just instantly felt off, like okay that’s not my kids name idk 😭
I think that feeling is natural. I had my baby girls name even before I got pregnant. On the day she was born I looked at her and it just didn’t click… almost 6 months later and she couldn’t actually be named anything else. It suits her so well xx
My daughter is 7m and called Aoife (eefa) I wanted to call her dolly my grandma is Dorothy so was after her but my partner hates it, she was born at 36 weeks and 4lbs6oz, everyone calls her a little doll, in size and because of her features, at first I was a bit miffed off I didn’t fight for dolly more (although I still loved Aoife) now at 7 months she’s obviously not as small, and she’s definitely an Aoife and not a dolly, but I will always love the name 💗 you may just know when baby is here if they suit Isabel or not! X
It's a lovely name. Spend a day or so talking to baby, using her name. See if it was just a blip or if you still feel uncomfortable x