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HelpI love 'helping'
I love it when I have a pregnant friend who wants to talk about names. :) So many of mine are private about it or tell you a few names they like, but not the ones they actually love. But the one who is pregnant now will share all her favourites and take suggestions. So I feel like I'm helping, whether or not I really am...
Their kids: Bethany, Hunter, Grace (stillborn, would probably otherwise have been Heidi), Anderson
Fave girls: Eve, Heidi
Fave boys: Davis, Fraser
Any suggestions for them?
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
He is becoming greater, I am becoming less
Bits of the journey here: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/
And some family cuteness here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/41705228@N08/
Their kids: Bethany, Hunter, Grace (stillborn, would probably otherwise have been Heidi), Anderson
Fave girls: Eve, Heidi
Fave boys: Davis, Fraser
Any suggestions for them?
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589
He is becoming greater, I am becoming less
Bits of the journey here: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/
And some family cuteness here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/41705228@N08/
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This is off topic, but I hate it when people don't use a name they love on a stillborn child and use another name instead so that they don't "waste" the name. It makes me sad for that baby, that it wasn't good enough for their favorite name. It also makes me a bit angry that the parents aren't treating it like a real name for a real baby but a throwaway name. Not that I am insinuating that your friends did that very thing, but it totally triggered that ideology back into my brain.
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This is off topic, but I hate it when people don't use a name they love on a stillborn child and use another name instead so that they don't "waste" the name. It makes me sad for that baby, that it wasn't good enough for their favorite name. It also makes me a bit angry that the parents aren't treating it like a real name for a real baby but a throwaway name. Not that I am insinuating that your friends did that very thing, but it totally triggered that ideology back into my brain.
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I think, for my friends at least, it wasn't about wasting a name so much as feeling that a name with more significant meaning was more appropriate for the situation. And, for years afterward, they did not plan on using Heidi at all, because it was too associated with Grace. It is still early in this pregnancy, so I don't know whether they will end up using it or not.
I do understand what you are saying though.
I do understand what you are saying though.
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My b-i-l is Fraser David! Other family names include Roy, Daniel, Peter.
I know a Douglas who's married to a Bethany; brother is James.
Heidi seems a bit flimsy to me, but I don't expect any non-German person to use Adelheid, nn Heidi. So I'd go for Eve, or perhaps Evelyn nn Eve. Or perhaps Lyneve, which I think is very lovely, and if Maryrose can coexist with Rosemary, why not?
I know a Douglas who's married to a Bethany; brother is James.
Heidi seems a bit flimsy to me, but I don't expect any non-German person to use Adelheid, nn Heidi. So I'd go for Eve, or perhaps Evelyn nn Eve. Or perhaps Lyneve, which I think is very lovely, and if Maryrose can coexist with Rosemary, why not?
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