how to decide which baby will have which name?

hi, everyone!

we have settled on names for our b/b twinkies--joseph and henry. we chose joseph long ago and have always called the larger one ("baby A") joseph and the other one henry ("baby B"). however, now i am wondering if we should wait until we see them? maybe A will look more like a henry and B will seem more "joey-ish?" also, maybe our smaller one will feel badly knowing that he was smaller and didn't have a name until much later than his big bro. i don't know! do i sound silly? i'm just not sure.......

i like the idea of each having his own name/identity now, instaed of waiting. it makes it easier for us to talk to them and relate to them... but, i'm just wondering if that's the best way to go.

thanks for any and all input!

~~jl

 

Not sure as I had b/g so didn't have to worry about it! LOL! Just wanted to say congrats and best wishes on a healthy PG!

 

I told my husband he could decide when they come out--I've spent all these months bonding with them from the inside out--his choosing which gets which name will be a way for him to bond with them.

 

I had their names picked out before I even knew what they were. Since I had picked Katie out from the beginning and it was going to be Katie & Carli or Katie & Carter. Baby A got Katie and Baby B was Carli. That's what we called them in utero, and when the Dr. delivered them I told them to be sure and take them out in order so we didn't get them mixed up. Their names fit them and I couldn't imagine them being reversed.

 

I let my husband decide who got which name when they were delivered. The weird part to that was while I was pregnant I always thought of Baby A as Evan and Baby B as Cameron and my husband named them the opposite. Cameron is Baby A. It took me a while to get used to thinking of them differently than I did in utero.

 

We are doing them in alphabetical order of their first names. haha.
So whoever comes out first gets the name that is first in the alphabet..
It's funny when my husband asked me how we were going to decide it seemed like a no brainer to me for some reason. A couple people I have told this plan to though think I am weird. :lol:

 

We named them before they were born. A has always been Reese and B has always been Riley. Not sure why I wanted that way...I didn't have a specific reason, it's just the way we did it.

 

we picked Addison's name1st - she was baby A so she got the first name! -Ava we didn't name until the hospital - both names just fit we never even thought about naming baby B Addison and finding a different name for baby A - as soon as we found a name we liked we just stuck it with baby A!!! I don't know why!!!!!!!! but it so fits her!

 

Don't worry, you have enough to worry about without this!

We only had one name settled on before they were born. They were born Friday and my SIL's wedding was Saturday, so I spent all day Saturday alone with them in the clinic--mostly just gazing at them! I decided which one felt more like Gabriela, then when DH came in the evening, we worked out the other name and the middle names.

 

this is a good question!!

I have been thru several sets of names , most recently indiana and briana
and then bella and bree

my baby a is very vigorous and always kicking and bucking,
and baby b is very quiet and laid back, never makes a fuss inside(that i can tell)

we are set on bree (or briana) and for some reason she has always been baby b.

we are still on the fence about bella, baby a, but i think bella fits.

when we where thinking about indiana and denver, denver was going to be baby a , as we had had that picked if the last 2 boys had been girls, and we thought of indiana next as baby b.....but of course we have changed our minds.

bella and bree i think it will stay!

Its a personal choice really, i like to have the attachment (now i think we are set in stone) and link the names to their movements and personalties in utero.

but do whatever you feel comfortable with. if you get to the labor ward and you haven't picked you names, atleast have a short list!

 

Kylee was the first name we agreed on, and decided that one will go to baby A. We chose Kaylyn later and of course that went to baby B. I love the idea of letting DH decide once they were born though, that is really cute

 

DH and I had picked Alexandra years before we had ever gotten pregnant. In fact the original name was Alexandra Paige but even before I got pregnant with the girls we decided we loved the name Paige so much that we would hold it for a second girl when and if the time came.

All that being said, we decided that the first baby out was going to be Alexandra. Didn't matter to us who baby A and baby B was throughout the pregnancy.

 

Syani was born first, she was baby A, so she got the first name that we agreed upon....and baby B, since her nickname is Eve and she was the smaller of the two, it just seemed to fit. It will all fall into place. Believe me you'll know when it happens who is supposed to have which name, you probably pretty much already know now. Their character in utero can almost claim their names for themselves.

 

We named them in utero and it was actually based on their size and situation. Our girls had TTTS and we gave the smaller girl the "stronger" name because we were more worried about her. She became Sierra. I just so happens that she also got the name we came up with 2nd and the second one alphabetically. We gave our first choice name, the more "girly" one, to the other baby, Ainsley.

 

Mine were decided in utero. William means 'the protector' and since he was protecting the exit out it went to baby A. Nathan means "gift from God" and how much more appropriate can you get for the surprise baby of the bunch. William actually looks like a dead ringer for one of his namesakes (my older bro), and Nathan looks like a Nathan..lol.

 

We decided in utero. Baby A was Sarah and Baby B was Amy. I've never had any regrets about that -- but I'm one of those people who thinks all newborns look alike, so it was unlikely that I'd look at them after they were born and think "Oh no, we got the names all wrong!" We just agreed on Sarah first and so that became Baby A's name -- it took us several more weeks to come up with a name for Baby B.

The only thing that has been confusing is that people assume Amy was baby A because they have the same letter. Sometimes when DH and I are referring to them as A and B (to keep them from knowing we're talking about them), we get mixed up.

 

We didn't have that issue, but my parents had two names picked out and written down. My sister came out first so she got the first name and I came out second, so I got the second girl name. She didn't know she was having twins until she was 7 months pregnant.

 

I named them in utero and made sure I knew which one was delivered first so as not to mix them up. Fortunately I had one breech and one vertex so it was easy to know which the Dr. delivered first and they put one clamp on the first baby's umbilical cord and two clamps on the second one born just so there was no mix up. Their names fit their personalities from inside me to the outside world and I can't imagine them being switched.