So before I found out I was pregnant, I was always baffled how people could name their baby before he/she was born. I’d always said ‘how can you name a baby before you’ve seen them?!’. I now have to take that back and withdraw the statement because when you know, you know!! I can hand on heart say that I never thought we’d be so settled and happy with Baby Crisp’s name before he was born! But, I couldn’t be happier with our choice.
Michael and I didn’t hang around with finding out the gender – we had a private scan booked for when I was 16 weeks exactly. We were tempted to book it for 15 weeks and 6 days because this would have been Michaels birthday. However, I was too chicken to change my due date by a day ha. I’m always living by the rules me!
We were both so pleased to find out we were having a baby boy. I have a big brother who I get on really well with (although we used to argue like goodness knows what) and Michael is the eldest of three. Because our mums had both had boys first, I think most of our family just assumed it’d be a boy. Although, Michael would say ‘well it’s a 50/50 chance so I’m not guessing’ – men 🙄 Although, when it came down to crunch time, he finally guessed a girl and I guessed a boy! I really had no idea so I just guessed the opposite to Michael and it turns out I was right. What’s that saying? Mama knows best – that’s it 🤪
Both Michael and I agree that girls names are much easier than boys. We had a list as long as my arm for girls names. Some of our favourites were Elodie, Lilah, Arabella and Elsie. I also loved Beatrice (Bea for short) but Michael hated that, boo! Our list of boys names had maybe 10 on the shortlist, until we found out it was a boy! Then I decided that I didn’t like any besides one particular name (diva eh).
Can I just add that names are even harder when you work with children… I teach some children with gorgeous names, but it’s their name, not our little boys! I wanted him to have his own identity rather than using the name of a child I teach which would remind me of them. I would say on average I teach around 100 children a week, obviously not all of these are boys but that’s a lot of names ruled out!
Also, what they say is true… you don’t realise how many people you’re not fond of until it comes to naming a baby! It’s awful really isn’t it?! But a baby’s name is so so important and it needs to be perfect.
I’ve touched on this before, but being called Amy, I’ve always wanted a name that’s a little different (but not weird). The name we have chosen doesn’t come up with a red squiggle on my iPhone so that’s enough for me!
So, I have the one name that I absolutely love! Like completely love! Until… Michael one day said ‘we’re not set on that name though are we’. Errrrrr, yessssss!! I was completely set on it! This put me in the right hump because in my head he just is *insert name*. I then admittedly did go into diva mode and refused to look for any more names. I said to Michael that he can look for a name then because I don’t like any as much as this. Name hunting is so time consuming and I just wasn’t prepared to do it when I had a name I loved 🤣 Oh my god, sounding like a proper diva aren’t I – oops!
Some of the names on our shortlist (before it was a list of one) were Theodore (Theo), Riley, Finley, Hudson (Michael didn’t like this) and Louis (pronounced Lewy, which is why we took it off because people could likely say Lewis). I also LOVED the names Jude and Arthur – really loved! But you’re setting a child up to be bullied calling him Arthur Crisp or Jude Crisp – say them out loud! Even more so Arthur Jude Crisp, could you imagine 🤦🏼♀️🤣
So… we avoided the subject of baby names for a couple of weeks. It then came to Christmas Day and I got a very special card that said ‘To Mummy, Lots of love, *****’. Christmas made!!! We have our name confirmed!!
We’ve told family and close friends our baby name but I’ve been pretty shady about it otherwise mwhaha! I think because we know the gender, it’s nice to keep something a surprise. This is why I’ve stuck with my decision in not wanting a 4D scan. We have the name, we have the gender but we won’t have seen his beautiful face! Although, at my growth scan I kept saying how beautiful he was. The midwife was probably thinking but it’s just an ultrasound you crazy woman 👀🤣
The name has had mixed opinions but again, I’m really not upset because we love it and that is most the most important thing!
We were very kindly gifted a blanket from Boop Designs which has Baby Crisp’s initials on. It’s so beautiful, thank you so much! So I’ll leave you with ‘CC’ and see see (like what I did there) if you have any guesses as to what we’ll be naming our little baba!
Ps. If you know the name please don’t say it and ruin the fun 🙄🤪
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