Name doubt?

We have not shared our name with anyone, but the other day my midwife asked, so I told her. But as the name came out of my mouth it just felt… off? Like it was the wrong name. I have sentimental attachment to the name, my husband loves it, but… I just don’t know. Anyone else ever feel like this? Did you go on to use the name and it was fine? The name is Isabel, which is my mom’s middle name.
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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

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

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