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Thanks again for all of the feedback!
I'm very happy to report that "Baby Girl White" is still hanging in there. No progress made from week 38 to week 39, so I did a little happy dance, which amused my midwife. ;) I'm simply not in any hurry for this baby to be born, I think because I know for sure this is it for us, and the pregnancy came as such an unexpected blessing (SHOCK, if I'm being 100% honest!), I'm trying to savour every moment.
Maybe this is why I'm having such trouble committing to a name? Same reason all of her clothes have yet to be washed and put away? I'm excited to meet her but I don't want to rush it. Of course, there's no real worry of "rushing" anything at this point. I think I need a brisk slap across the face, because I am literally a ticking time bomb!
We're still mulling it over -- including many of your suggestions! -- but we're no closer to deciding than we were a week ago. It does make me slightly panicky, but I suppose if we don't have THE NAME chosen by the time she's born, we'll have to take the list along and see if anything jumps out at as. I really hate this tactic, waiting to meet the baby before settling on his/her name, simply because all babies look like little old men. LOL
It must be my hormones, but your responses are making me cry! hahaha!!!!
Thank you for all of the wonderful feedback. I don't know why I have such an issue with (supposed) popularity! Jake (that's DH) and Henry roll their eyes and say, "Who cares?" but I think my name-obsessiveness is the root of the problem. Reading this blog and other NE forums has made me biased, I think, on what is actually popular!
I'm from Northern California and Jake is from Central Arkansas, and we're currently in Podunk Missouri where none of these names would be too common. I do know four new babies (within the last three months!) called Alice/Alyce, which bothers me... too bad, because I think it's a lovely match with Henry. Two young Violets, too. But otherwise, the names on the list are nowhere near as overexposed as I'm making them out to be, at least not in my neck of the woods.
Again, the hormones! I think I need to take a breath and get over myself! Right?
Thank you all for the reality check! I'm going to go over your suggestions with my guys and will update asap with their reactions. I appreciate your help so much!
ETA: I plan on replying to you individually but I'm starving for lunch and will have to come back in a bit! ;)
This is super exciting!
For selfish reasons, I am happy that one can post for naming advice (*ahem!*) without it getting lost in the shuffle of hundreds of comments!
Yay!
It's certainly more difficult for us this time around. When we had Henry twelve years ago, all of our friends & family were using trendy names (not "popular" in the way that Michael & Elizabeth will always be "popular") and we were the odd ducks. Now that the classically "popular" names are the "trend," there are certainly fewer names in the pool. The girl names we had on our list twelve years ago are all crossed out now. So you're choosing from a limitless menu...with the most appealing options crossed out. This sums up how we're feeling about naming this baby! Poor thing... due in 5 weeks and no name!
Wondering Dad -- Here's another vote for Edith and Arthur! They are both strong, lovely names that haven't reached that "tired" stage. They make a beautiful non-matchy pair. My Arthur association isn't with the aardvark but with my high school crush, the only guy under 80 that I've ever known with that name. A very positive association indeed. ;) Our Henry is 11 and is voting for Alice for baby sister, but I think it's a bit too ordinary at this point, so I'm pushing for something a bit farther "off" like Edith, though husband isn't in love with it. He took some selling on Henry, though, so we'll see. :) Good luck!
I know, it's kind of strange! If you scroll it back to the year 2000 (sing it like La Bamba on the old Conan show!) when my Henry was born, Henry only ranked in the Northeast, Oregon, and Alaska. But my husband is Southern and I'm from California, so we pretty much offended everyone we knew when we chose that name. LOL
I've changed the spelling of my first name (added a U so people would quit calling me "Lair-uh," which didn't work, by the way, so I dropped it again), taken my stepfather's last name (he never legally adopted me), went back to my birth name with stepfather's name hyphenated... the California DMV never batted an eye or required any proof of my identity.
zoerhenne, it seems like we use the same pronunciations, so I'm wondering how you say "egg." I tend to say "ayg" (and I'm from California), whereas my Arkansas-born husband says it more phonetically, "ehg." He also says crazy things like "get your picture made" (I say "taken") and "taste/smell of it" (rather than simply, "taste/smell it"). They also say "down your alley," but we say UP!