Anyone else REGRET the name you gave you're child?

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Before we got pregnant we fell in love with the name Emma, and knew when we had another baby if it was a girl her name would be Emma. We got pregnant in November 2017 and I told my grandma that if it was a girl her name would be Emma. My grandma ADORED that name, her grandma was named Emma so it was even more perfect. Then we had a miscarriage and I was heart broken. Christmas 2017 my grandma had made a few predictions, she told me not to be upset cause she knew I would get pregnant 2018 and that the baby would be a girl and my husband and I would have our Emma. January 30th 2018 my grandma passed away, February 1st 2018 we found out we were expecting again. I felt it was a sign from my grandma that we were gonna bring this brand new baby Emma home and maybe my heart would be a little fixed from losing her. On March 21st 2018 we found out that the baby didn't form correctly and I would soon either have a miscarriage or I would have to have a d&c. I ended up miscarrying, then that next month my niece ended up pregnant and found out in may she was having a girl. She ended up taking the name Emma 😭😭😭 I was so heartbroken I know I shouldn't have been cause we weren't pregnant but it felt like a stab in the back since she knew how much I loved it and that my grandma ( her great grandma) loved it. July 4th rolls around and we are pregnant again 💗 find out in September it's a baby girl. My husband and I argued about what to name this magnificent girl cause our new was taken. We finally settled on AlysAnn, we HATE it ! She's almost a year and we think we want to either change it or add Ellie to her name ? We don't know but we know we really don't like it. 😭 Our new was stolen and we wish we could've named her Emma 😭😭😭😭

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AlysAnn is an odd name.... I would change it too

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I would call her Emma. I don’t care if someone else takes a name I liked. If you’re the one who gave it first and it means a lot to you, then just name her Emma.

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Just because someone else you know has that name doesn’t mean you couldn’t have named your daughter that . ESP sense y’all were planning on it anyway .

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Emma is incredibly common & popular lately-- it's not stealing to like a trendy popular name 🙄. If you want to use it, just use it.

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Go change it to Emma.
I have 2 Jeremy’s in my family. 2 years apart. None of them have nicknames

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Could you maybe call her Allie or Annie? I think that even if you changed her name to Emma now, there’s going to be a string of negative emotions tied to it because of the whole situation with your cousin🤷🏻‍♀️

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I love her name but I regret the way I chose to spell it lol

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I am so sorry to hear that you regret your little ones name. Also the sad circumstances. To me it's a lovely name but two of my  lovely friends have the names Ailsa and Ann. I have a couple of thoughts, forgive me if not helpful. I've named all my misscaraged babies, it helped me heal, Perhaps if this is something that you want to do, Emma might be a wonderful name to use. Or to keep for another future baby. We have several people in our extended family with the same name athough mostly a middle name two have it as a first name. If you like Ellie have you thought of the Galic name Ealasaid it's similar to Aysa so would not be a big change it means God's promise, its a form of Elizabeth and therefore related to Ellie. It goes well with Ann too (which means God has favoured me.)

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I understand. I lost my son in 2017. His name is Rhett. There’s a ex co workers daughter that had a baby boy a year after and used the name Rhett. I feel like she stole my sons name. She doesn’t know what that name means to me. Tbh I think your cousin is really inconsiderate. Especially with what you have gone through and then stole that name knowing what it mean to you. I didn’t want anyone getting pregnant before me and we thought no one had but my brother in law knocked up a girl and the day she was born well that’s when they told everyone. Knocked my rainbow baby from second grand kid to third and it still bothers me so much. He screwed around and we worked out tails off for two and half years and that baby is the favorite? I still get sick over it. I try my best to be so kind to that baby but she’s 2.5 months older than my daughter and I just can’t. I have the first grand baby and he passed after birth and my daughter was supposed to be second but his baby stole her place. It’s not a name but the feeling is the same. I understand why your mad. Change her name if you feel like it. Maybe even find a name where Emma can be a middle name, Grief is odd and it hits differently and at odd times. Sorry your having to go through this.

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Give her a nick name a d always call her by it.. Ally?

Anyone else REGRET the name you gave you're child?

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