Do you remember being pregnant and pouring over baby name lists on the internet, searching through name dictionary apps, desperately searching for the perfect name for your soon to arrive perfect baby?
And do you remember talking at length with your partner about what names you preferred and what names they preferred?
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For some of us, the discussion of baby names can become something akin to bilateral trade negotiations between world super powers. Imagine China and the US trying to work out import tariff arrangements, then double it, and then you have some idea of the level of diplomacy it took for my husband and I to negotiate our daughter’s name.
(For reference, in case any mothers-to-be are in a similar situation, I started with an ambit claim, the name Beatrix, figuring that we’d end up negotiating something closer to what I wanted if he thought I was starting from a pretty fair out position. You should try it too.