Baby names!!!

Right...come on ladies. Share your books/websites that have the most exhaustive lists of names!!!
My partner and I are having a little girl in October..but names are hard to agree on!

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We are expecting a girl in October as well 💗, and struggling to decide on a name.

We both really love Olivia (and have done for years) but it’s so popular at the moment and we know a lot of babies called Olivia now.

Other names we like are Hadley and Harper, but can’t decide as my husband is set on Olivia!

I don’t know any books/sites unfortunately but I did find the pregnancy+ app has a section for names which was helpful xx

Nameberry.com and babynames.com

Me and my husband made an extensive list and ran it all by family yo later decide on a name not on the list and tell no one!
One will come to you that you both like don’t force it. And everyone will have an opinion so don’t let them put you off . Good luck 🤞🏻

Try the app Kinder! It's like Tinder but you and your partner swipe left or right for names and it comes up with a list of matches at the end x

We named ours Lydia but also liked Emma

Sienna
Hadley
Winter
Nova
Cora
Zarlee
River
Reign

My girls are called
Triniti
Renesmee (ruhnezmay)
Elecia
My eldest son is Spencer
And this one I have no idea
What the hubby is
Going to call him x but we have Ezekiel,klaus,Loki,Jasper

My girl is Myla x

Naming our rainbow baby girl Elliana 💜 my other 4 children's names are
Makayla
Elijah
Mariah
Jeremaih
And baby #5 Elliana

My daughter name is Kennedi, we also liked Emerson, Arabella, Opal, Charlotte(Charlie).

Hadley and Olivia I like too, Harper is getting very popular over here right now.... I Love Erin, Emer, Evangeline and Emmeline for girls names....

I like the name Rain. It can be spelled Rayne or Raine as well

We’re naming our girl Charlie 🥰 I’ve also always liked the name Clara!

We had the hardest time with girls names. The only one we agreed on was Charlie aka Charlotte.

I love the name Naila but my hubby hates it. LOL. Also me and my husband are having a hard time choosing between Skyrene or Cyrene but both are lovely names. 😍

There’s an app called baby name. It’s kind of like tinder for baby names you and your partner both download it and swipe on names you like or dislike and then the app will show you the names you match on.

I am one of 4 girls and my dad is a David Jr, he was hoping to pass down David but obviously didn’t get the chance so with my younger sister my parents turned David into a feminine version and got Davia pronounced Davey-ya. I’ve always been so jealous of how unique and beautiful her name is.

Some names I liked and didn’t use with my daughter

Octavia
Anastasia
Adelaide
Jasmine
Gwen
McKenna

My girls are Ruth( but we call her Ruthie )& we have another girl Sophia .

My girls name is Halle 🥰

My girls are Lilyana (liky-arna), Caris (like Paris but with a "C") & Eliyah (el-ee-yah) my eldest who is my Angel baby her name is Abigail.

Getting mine straight from my nana.

My girls Frankie. Cool name for a cool kid lol

I have a Makayla.. Mariah and a jahniah and were naming our baby girl coming Dec 💜 Ellianna !! ... we were gonna go with the name Nova but I ended up with ellianna 😁

If I have a girl it will be Myla 💝

I have an Anastasia and an Adaliese. Anastasia was almost a Gabriella and I really liked Persophone for Adaliese but my husband vetoed that. The social security administrations name lists were always fun to look at (I also wouldn't touch a name in the top 100 so it eliminated more than it added) name nerds on reddit is also a solid resource.

Have you looked into your family tree? You might find a cool name in there!! My daughters are named Ryian and Brooklyn (Ryian pronounced like Ryan)

Our top list of girls names were Gwendolyn, Alyson/Allison, Maren, Lillian, and Tegan for first names.

The ovia pregnancy app had a baby name sort of tinder game attached to it. We found our baby’s girl name on that. Simply swipe left if you like and right if you didn’t.

My daughter is named Indiana.
I also love the names Montana & Wyatt also.

My baby girl is Layne but we were so unsure we didn’t name her for a few days. I decided I’d had too much endone to make such an important decision…
Other names we considered were Harlow, Adelaide, Camden, Imogen, Eden, Lacey, Celeste….

If I have a girl one day I love the names Kaia and Soul.

I heard the name, Della a few days ago and thought it was pretty!!

I really LOVE adore for a girl! We are trying for another baby but my partner is firm on adore being a no :(

Pinterest surprisingly! That's how we fell upon my babe's name Aelynn 💖 its really Aelin but my mother kept saying and telling people Alien. It means bright and courageous (Scottish decent). They will give you the names and meanings in Pinterest.

We both downloaded the kinder app to see if there were any from the lists that we ‘matched’ in

I learned that my sons name is also a unisex name- Aries (pronounced like the zodiac sign) and we had a few ‘almost’ names for my daughter, until later on in the pregnancy when we changed her name and stuck to it. Her almost names were: Athena, Oaklynn, Ember, & Lylah. But through numerous trips to the hospital, (driving in blizzards & snow storms)with false alarms & lots of preterm labor, we changed her name to Stormi Lylah-Rayne. (There was a massive snow storm when I had her also) It so fits her, and I couldn’t imagine her name being anything else! 🥰

My daughter is Edie (ee-dee) 💖
We also liked Hallie and Violet

It took us forever to.pick a name for baby girl. I wanted a family name but we didn't have any good ones lol I had friends send me lists until we found one we both agreed on ( I like sort of old names too) my first is Klara Adele and new baby girl is Blair Elizabeth

We struggled with girl names. My husband mentioned many and I just didnt love any. The ones we liked and agreed to were Charlotte/Charlie, Annabell, Ava, and Pippa.

We couldn't settle on girl names to save our lives (thank goodness we're having a boy)
Our girl names that came and went were:
Eloise
Paisley
Amelia
Ava
Olivia
Sophia
Charlie
Madilyn
Grace
Kinsley
Ensley
Evalina
Rose
Emma

I've always liked the name Avery! I also like Malia, Alivia and Charley.

I didn't have a name until the day I was going to leave the hospital. But it worked out because I love my son's name.

We are having the hardest time with our girl name, but here is the list we are currently working with. My favorite is Dahlia - "Dolly" for short (yes I love Dolly Parton lol) and my SO has vetoed it 😭.

Maeve
Dove
Olive
Geneva / Evie (grandma's name)
Delilah
Poppy
Eleanor
Dahlia
Sabina
Verity
Story
Elowyn
Violet
Liberty
Hazel
Camellia

My fiancé and I luckily agreed on Eleanor right away ☺️

We have ayda for baby girl

Our first daughter is Georgie and for our second I like Niamh, Aoife or Matilda but husband likes Mila. I don’t think we’ll be agreeing on a name anytime soon 😂

I like virtue names. Easy to pronounce but deep meaning ❤️

Mine was easy. If it's a boy then we were naming him after my partner with a second middle name. If it's a girl we are naming her after me. We may change our minds once the baby comes though.

My baby’s name is Cataleya it’s a really pretty flower, has great options for nicknames, looks pretty in cursive, and sounds good in English and Spanish ☺️.

Olivia, Itzel, Yaritzel, Marielly, Amara, Caylen and Meli are also super cute.

I have two daughters and there babes are unique: Rosalynn and Marilynne

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Feeling very frustrated with my partner at the moment but not sure if I’m being selfish. He has gone back to work but is fully remote so works from home everyday. He sleeps in the spare room and has done since the moment we brought baby home (he is now 8 weeks old). He takes the baby one night over the weekend and I go into the spare room for one undisturbed nights sleep. I get that he is working, so wouldn’t be doing any weekday night feeds, but even after work he doesn’t help very much. I ask him to help me and he’s fine when the baby isn’t fussing but as soon as he starts crying he hands him back to me stating he “cannot do this”. I feel like I get no break. He watches me run up and down the stairs, making bottles tidying the house and does nothing to help, not even a thank you. I feel like I want to go back to work sooner rather than later to even the playing field as he said that when I start working it would be 50/50. Just wondering how everyone else is doing things with a working partner?

Since I gave birth, I don’t see a reason to stay in my relationship.

Since I’ve had my baby I feel like having a partner is so unnecessary to me. Don’t get me wrong I love my partner and he is amazing but there’s so many things he does that frustrate me and I’m starting to realise that i don’t really need a man because he’s already fulfilled the role of giving me a child.

Today it hit me more than ever. So my partner has been up at 3am for work and he’s been working super hard and lifting all day so fair enough . Anyway he was too tired to drive me to the corner shop which is 5 minutes away. Now I don’t drive (I’m learning) so me and our 5 month old son had to walk half an hour to the shop and half an hour back to get food so I could cook dinner.

Baring in mind we live in the middle of nowhere so I had to walk down country lanes which is dangerous as cars zoom past and there is no footpath. It was also 6:30pm so it was getting dark and it was raining.

By the time we were walking back it was pitch black and the rain had turned into a storm and my umbrella broke and I was soaking wet trying to cover my baby who was attached to me via a baby carrier. I called up my man and told him to pick us up straight away as our baby was getting wet.

Now I’m sat here like why tf should I put up with this foolishness. I live with my auntie so I have a roof over my head, me and my family are close and they support me in every which way. I don’t rely on my partner financially so why am I in a relationship. I love him but that’s pretty much the only reason I’m with him when you look at it. My son is my whole heart and he’s my reason to live so why am I with someone who I have to clean up after and cook for. I mean everything that comes with having a boyfriend/husband I get from my friends and family, minus sex obviously but I have a vibrator for that lmao.

I’m just thinking that the Cons out weigh the pros here. I also solo parent 98% of the time and do all the feeds during the night so what’s the benefit here.

Baby accidentally had cheese

(Baby is 8 months) not had any cows milk since 8 weeks.
I bought some spaghetti bolognese pouches and didn’t realise they had 2% cheddar cheese. I told my partner do not serve those as they contain cheese. Specifically told him before I went out to my appointment this afternoon. I come home and he’s feeding her the pouch! I was absolutely mortified to say the least as I literally had just mentioned it before I went out. She has had half a pouch. Has anyone else done this by accident??? It says online to look out for reactions but she’s due to go bed soon and she was having this at about 6:30pm.

I think I need a break....

Hey everyone!

Context:

Little bubba is 7 weeks old tomorrow, partner has been back at work 5 weeks, my family live 3hrs away and my in-laws are close by but FIL is away in the week and MIL still works plus has 2 big dogs

Question:
When are we leaving our babies with someone for an hour or 2 break? My baby is 7 weeks old tomorrow and aside from sleep and shower, genuinely the longest we've spent apart is 10 mins (we went on a walk with our neighbours and the kids and me and the mum went on a extra little walk leaving kids and the dads at the part Inc the baby).
I'm really wanting some time to myself, my head needs a break but my body genuinely feels like a magnet and I can't leave! I totally trust my husband but sometimes struggle just to lay down upstairs and leave them to it.

I'm combination feeding, offering breast 3-4 times a day

Id love to hear if and when you've left your little one with a trusted person for a break and how it went?

what would you do?

my son’s father and i aren’t together and he is only allowed to see our son for an hour a month (social services are involved, he’s not a good person at all) he also isn’t allowed any unsupervised contact with him until he turns 16.

i don’t receive child maintenance from him and i’m so against him as a person due to his past behaviours and actions that i find it very difficult to communicate with him regarding our son. he messages and calls me constantly but most of it is asking about me- where i am, what i’ve been up to, who i’m with, what my plans are tomorrow etc etc. he doesn’t seem to take much interest in our son.

my social worker has been very clear with me that i am in control and if i don’t want him in the picture that they can make that happen because he isn’t a good person and it truthfully would be easier for my son growing up if he just wasn’t there (he’s 2 months old)

how do i know when to turn around and say i don’t want him involved? because i feel like i’m letting my dislike for him take over

marriage disaster

I’ve been with my husband for about five years on and off, he was my high school sweetheart and we recently got married 3 and a half months ago, 1 week before I had our first baby (my second child, his first). it has been very up and down but I feel mostly a complete disaster since getting married and I have already been contemplating divorce for a full month because he is manipulative, controlling, and gaslights me on an almost daily basis since maybe a month or two before getting married. I don’t want to cut him off but I don’t feel comfortable being married and saying we’re committing our lives to each other knowing I want to leave him and be on my own. I want him to be in both my children’s lives and for us to stay on good (enough) terms but I don’t know how to go about that, any advice ?