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Yeah, it does seem efficient to use the if-it-were-a-boy name the next time you have the opportunity, if you're going through all the choosing anyway.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
Birthday Happies, GC!!
Next she'll try and tell us she's not even a cowgirl.
There are some things I'm simply not willing to accept.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
My parents discussed naming my older brother Jeff but settled on Jim. So then I would have been Jeff but by then my mom's sister named their son Jeff so I became Tom.
I've even heard of surprise twins (though you'd think that would be pretty rare - two heartbeats, people!)
I had a roommate who was a surprise twin! They split up the one name they had picked out for the two girls, and came up with new middle names.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
That makes sense now, didn't when I was 6.
My mom was so sure I'd be a boy (Nicholas, I think) she didn't pick out a girl's name.
That happened to my mom - Grandma had no girl's name picked out, but Grandpa had Shirleymae Elizabeth up his sleeve. No one know where he got that, he never said.
My only experience with surprise twins is in Bollywood movies, where they happen almost every time.
From my own experience, there can be a very strong sense of the name belonging to that particular hypothetical child. It doesn't always feel right to just transfer it to the next one.
Yeah, that's an excellent point - I was coming at it from the list-of-names side of the equation, I guess.
My mom was so sure I'd be a boy (Nicholas, I think) she didn't pick out a girl's name.
My mom was too! She'd carried my sister "high" and carried me "low" so she figured I was a boy. I would have been named John Martin after her cousin.
My mother wanted a girl only. Because she felt she had bad luck, she "pretended" that she wanted a boy only, and bought only boy's clothes. She did pick out a girl's name, though, which is not my name.