{"id":6839,"date":"2010-01-19T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/01\/19\/baby-naming-story\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:47:00","slug":"baby-naming-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/01\/19\/baby-naming-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I liked this story of how a baby’s name was chosen, and I thought you might like it too. It’s from Through the Looking Glass<\/a>, and Annika has generously allowed me to reprint an excerpt here:<\/p>\n

So I wanted to tell the story of how we came up with our daughter\u2019s name. Only it\u2019s not much of a story, unlike her brother\u2019s name<\/a>. But I can\u2019t think of anything else to talk about, and I get twitchy if I go too long without updating, and Will\u2019s mom is here entertaining Sam (he is in HEAVEN) so I don\u2019t have anything to distract me other than a ridiculously good-natured baby who is happy to just lay on her Daddy\u2019s chest. So naming it is.<\/p>\n

With Sam we were still discussing names the day before I went into labor. This time we settled on names when I was 20 or 21 weeks pregnant (though it\u2019s not as if that stopped us from discussing them over the remaining time). We picked two girl names and two boy names, and almost immediately narrowed the boy name down to one (sort of\u2013our favorite boy name was the two names combined as first and middle). The girl names were a favorite from the first time (which I am convinced would be Sam\u2019s name were he a girl) and Grace. Each name had a middle name after one of my grandmothers.<\/p>\n

My name is the Swedish diminutive form of Anna, which is a form of Hannah, which means grace. My mother\u2019s name, Nancy, is a form of Anne, which is a form of Anna, et cetera. My step-sister is named Hannah… Read the rest of the story at Through the Looking Glass.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I liked this story of how a baby’s name was chosen, and I thought you might like it too. It’s from Through the Looking Glass, and Annika has generously allowed me to reprint an excerpt here: So I wanted to tell the story of how we came up with our daughter\u2019s name. Only it\u2019s not […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Mj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","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=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}