Baby Names

Every mother struggles with finding the perfect name for her baby. Weeks, even months can go by before you settle on the perfect name, then you think... uh oh, what if my baby isn't a boy/girl?? Then you start over with the process until you find a name fitting the opposite sex of what you settled on before.

Now that a mother picks two names for her baby, and obviously gives one to her newborn, what happens to that other name? Does it get forgotten or do you keep it filed away for your next baby?

I found myself asking people I knew what their names were going to be if they were the opposite sex. Had I been a boy, I would have been Matthew. My son, should he have been a girl would have been Alicia Michelle. Since my son wasn't a girl, I kept the name Alicia filed away for my next baby, should it be a girl...I just love the name. My husband liked the name Lolo instead. *shrugs* I thought he was joking when he first mentioned it, but now I know he was serious. So we compromised on Alicia Michelle-Lolo. I know it's a mouth full, but I think we've already come up with a nickname... Little Lolo. Now stop throwing rotten tomatoes at me... that's just a nickname. My baby girl will officially go by Alicia when she grows up.