How are you choosing who gets which name?

We have our names (Charlotte and Allison, in case you were wondering) but I don't know how to choose who gets which name.

I have heard that with a c/s, sometimes the one who has been "Baby B" comes out first, making him/her "Baby A", so I am not too sure that I want to assign names in utero. Do you just say "The first one out is going to be X and the second one out is going to be Y." Is that what everyone does?

We don't know if they are identical or fraternal because we found out about the twins too late. As far as personalities, I have been feeling a lot more from Baby B. She's a little on the feisty side and she is measuring a tad bigger (a couple of ounces and maybe a day ahead) than her sister.

Did anyone wait until the babies were born to assign names? It might be nice to get a good look at the girls and then decide who looks more like an X and who looks more like a Y.... is any one planning to do that?

TIA!

 

That's not what we did. Even if I would have had a C-Section, the girls were named before they were born. Baby A was attached at my back, and I could not feel her. Baby B was attached in the front, on my right side, and her rear end was always poking out of my side and I could feel all of her kicks, hiccups, everything.

The way DH and I did it was he picked one name and I picked one name. I wanted the baby who I felt all the time to be named my name, Lily. Also, Amelia starts with "A" and she was baby A so it was a perfect fit. As soon as the first baby was born I made sure to ask which side she'd been on, just in case the baby on my right side, who I knew was Lily, had somehow managed to get out first. But as soon as Amelia was born I felt on my side and could tell Lily was still there. So I am positive that each of my girls has the "right" name.

 

We didn't know if our b/b would be identical or fraternal either. I found out at 19 weeks along. Anyways, once we picked out the names, Dh picked one and I picked the other, it ended up being the baby closest to my heart (Baby B) would be my pick and the baby lower (Baby A) was DH's pick. After we determined that it was amazing to see that even in the womb their personalities matched their names and still do. They ended up coming out of the c-section in their assigned positions.

 

We chose 2 names, with another waiting in the wings, and we waited until we saw them to name them. I always wanted an Emma and I pictured her to have a round face with brown hair. So when I saw her, I knew instantly she was Emma. I asked DH what names he wanted for who, and he chose the same names for the same girls that I did. :wub: I think it all comes to light once you see them.

 

We waited until our girls came out, then we said "who should be who?" and my DH and I had the same thoughts! Our Baby B did end up coming out of the C-section first, but the dr. told me that as she was coming out.

 

We chose who got what name alphabetically by who was going to be born first! Baby A is Madison and Baby B is Morgan! Original, huh?

 

We are naming our boys Garrison and Colton. Garrison will be kinda named after my husband Gary, so the first born will be Garrison. In addition Garrison is the first name that we came up with. FYI- If it were completely up to my husband one would be Gary Don and John Wayne. We struggled over Colton's name for months. Both babies' middle names are after our grandparents last names... Garrison Clay and Colton Powell.

 

I couldn't help but name them in utero... and now I'm stressed that we might "mess it up" when they are born and they'll have a identity crisis their whole life!

 

We have them named in utero. Jace has his head wedged into my ribs and Pax is constantly kicking my diaphragm.

 

We're having two girls and we've decided that whoever comes out first is going to be Courtney. Catlyn is our other girls name. The only reason we chose it that way is my wife picked Courtney years before we were even married. She always said that if she had a girl she wanted it to be Courtney.

 

If we did have two girls or two boys .... the first one born would get our 'C' name (we have a name that starts with 'C' and 'L' for both sexes). Mostly b/c the middle name that goes with the 'C' name belongs to the first born girl child as a family name.

Does that make sense?

 

Alphabetical. A was Evan and B was James because E comes before J.

Baby A is assigned that status because he/she is closest to the cervix, so will come out first. In the event of a C section, you have to ask the staff to be careful about tracking who is who. We never lost track, because they were 2 babies with 2 placentas attached to 2 different spots in the uterus, one higher and one lower. Maybe it's harder with identicals - not sure. The hospital staff have a vested interest in keeping the babies straight so they can track their health status.

 

We had our names, Lucas (first on our list) and Jonas (second on our list), picked out before we found out it was twins. After I found out I was pregnant, we made a list of our top five names for boys and girls...the girl list had none. After we found out twins, we knew we'd use both names. However, when it came time to find out what we were having, Baby B would not cooperate but we found out baby A was a boy at 15 weeks so he was Lucas(my husband was convinced baby b was girl so baby b was called Zoey by DH until...). At 21 weeks, we finally found out baby B was a boy so he was named Jonas.

 

My boys didn't switch positions for the last month or so. They just ran out of room to really move much after that. I just sort of felt like the one at the bottom, the first one to come out, was our "Sam".

 

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I have heard that with a c/s, sometimes the one who has been "Baby B" comes out first, making him/her "Baby A", so I am not too sure that I want to assign names in utero.

talk to your doctor and INSIST that they identify the babies as they are in utero as they're being delivered. i was very very insistent about it as we went in for my c-section and made my doctors promise me that they would correctly identify who was who. so as he delivered he announced it as, "baby A in utero is baby A delivered. baby B in utero is baby B delivered."

you can't control the order of the procedure, but you can insist that your doctor respect your wishes in how the babies are identified.

 

My girls didn't switch sides at all during the 2nd half of my pregnancy, Baby A (Sydney) stayed head down & had NO room while Baby B (Chloe) did somersaults all over the place. The names just 'fit' for me, so we assigned them before they were delivered :good:

 

Interesting question!

Here's my not so interesting answer...
When we learned we were having twins, we did the usual back-and-forth of names. The ONE girl name we both agreed that we loved right away was Rebecca. Our top boy name was James. When we found out it was twin girls, we had a harder time agreeing on a 2nd name. I suggested Samantha (we had always loved that name), but we have a college friend who named her daughter Samantha years ago, and DH did not want to "copy."
The friend is someone we see about once a year and her daughter doesn't even know us, so eventually I convinced DH that we shuold go ahead and use the name that we both loved way back when we first started TTC (didn't think it would take 6.5 years :blink: ). To make him feel better, I got in contact with our friend and discussed it with her and she was more than happy for us to use the name.
Therefore, Baby A = Rebecca; Baby B = Samantha!

 

We decided that the first to arrive would be Kenneth, named for DH's grandfather that passed right before thier birth, and the second would be Ian.


Born at 38.2 weeks no NICU time

 

Mine have flipflopped and Baby B is now the presenting twin. He's always been smaller as well.
I haven't 100% decided which baby gets which name, because I think I want to see them first and confirm.
The names we picked are Dylan and Ryan
My husband says he thinks of Baby A as Ryan, but my MIL and my mom say they see Ryan as the smaller one, so Baby B. I have kind of been leaning that way too LOL

 

Baby A is on the right and will be Gaige, baby B on the left is Gavin. Gavin is much higher and has been through the whole pregnancy so hopefully we'll have the vaginal birth and Gaige will be first. If we end up in C-section I believe they'll still take the lower baby first. Either way I will ask that they keep them straight as they are delivered.

 

It's easy for us since our names start with A and B.

Baby A will be Avery and Baby B will be Bailey.

I'm just hoping there is no C-section mix-up.

 

We were originally going to go by which baby came out first, but as time has gone one, i felt that my squirmy lil guy on bottom seems more like James and my calm one up top seems like a Jonathan. So as of right now A is James and B is Jonathan and i'm definitely going to make sure if i have a c-section they let me know which they take out when

 

Hi, Based on their personalities while early in the womb I gave them their names.Baby A had this certain personality-so I knew his name...B had this certain personality..so that how he got his name.

 

I can totally tell who is who in utero...my girls have been in the same spots for months now, so it's easy to tell which baby is which. If I have a c-section, I will be sure to specify to my doctor to identify which is delivered first so that we can keep the names.

 

The first name we agreed on (Sarah) we randomly assigned to baby A. The second name was given to baby B. They never switched places in the womb after we named them. But I never really think babies "seem" like any name or another anyway -- if we had named them the opposite way, it would have been equally fine, although it's weird to think about now.

 

Our girls were named in opposite alphabetical order.

I'm a teacher and EVERYTHING at school is by alphabetical order, so.... I decided one of our girls would get to be the oldest and the other would get to be first in alphabetical order.

 

I didn't read previous posts so this may have been said but I think it's a GREAT way...

Baby A gets the name that comes first in the alphabet and B has the one that comes 2nd. That is a non biased way to do it.

EX. Allison would be A, Charlotte would be B cuz it's alphabetical. This is how we did it. Love it!

 

I'm pretty sure we're going to do the alphabetical thing, too. Right now the girls keep changing spots so I can never tell who is who. Maybe once I'm further along and they get stuck in the same position for a long period of time we'll change our minds but for now the first one born will be Irelyn and the second one born will be Juliette.

 

I just did who ever came out first would be Grandt. They did switch during the C-section, but I felt weird calling them by name while in utero! Good luck with your decision!

 

For us it is easy. Our one baby has a two vessel cord and the other does not. I have let the doc. know that we need to know at delivery which one has the two vessel cord. Our two vessel cord baby has usually been Baby A but at our last ultrasound they switched! Little stinkers....