{"id":14257,"date":"2019-07-09T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14257"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T23:47:03","slug":"baby-naming-issue-should-they-change-the-middle-name-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2019\/07\/09\/baby-naming-issue-should-they-change-the-middle-name-last-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Should They Change the Middle Name Last-Minute?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long time reader here hoping to get some last minute advice. I am having a c-section on Friday and having cold feet about our daughter’s middle name. Our first daughter’s name was much easier because my husband and I had only one name in common on our favorites lists – Georgia. We call her Georgia, Georgia Kate, and GK. Deciding our second’s name was not as easy because we did not have any overlapping choices this time, so in the end I picked my top choice from his list. The name chosen around 24 weeks was Scarlett Claire.<\/p>\n

Fast forward and long story short, we have had a very trying third trimester — broken a\/c, dryer died, multiple house leaks that will mean we cannot return home after the hospital and will have to stay with family instead. At church this past Sunday, it hit me that I think her name should be Scarlett Joy, because despite the circumstances and stress, her arrival will still be a source of Joy and should be celebrated. Claire has no significance other than I liked the sound. I still like it, but think Joy might bring more “butterflies” because of the situation. I also like how SJ sounds more than SC, if we ever call her by initials like we do with GK. My husband says he is not entirely swayed either way, so I think since I picked Scarlett from his list, I can have more swing with the middle.<\/p>\n

So do I pull a last minute switch up based on emotion or do I stick with the choice we made ahead of time? I’d love your outside input.<\/p>\n

Thanks!
\nKelsey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t see any reason you have to stick with a name just because you chose earlier in the pregnancy: the name isn’t REALLY decided until it’s on the birth certificate (and of course, sometimes not even then). It sounds like you like the new choice better AND it has significance for you. I say go ahead, and that it makes a fun naming story.<\/p>\n

What does everyone else think?<\/p>\n

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Name update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our little girl was born this morning and in the operating room I asked my husband one more time if we could call her Scarlett Joy, and he said yes. She is certainly a joy during a rough season, so I think it is perfect.<\/p>\n

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Long time reader here hoping to get some last minute advice. I am having a c-section on Friday and having cold feet about our daughter’s middle name. Our first daughter’s name was much easier because my husband and I had only one name in common on our favorites lists – Georgia. We call her Georgia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3HX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14264,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions\/14264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}