Womb Name

So I guess there was some confusion over my last post. Just to set things straight... we are NOT naming our baby "Apricot." That is just the "womb name." Jon's family always gives babies names before they are born. We called Asher "Buster" and Rose "Baby Bird" and none of them stuck... even though my niece did come dangerously close to really being named "corduroy"! This baby will certainly get a different name when it is born but until then its name is "Apricot".

I don't believe in giving babies final names before they are born. I think you need to meet the little person and bask in their spirit for awhile before you can know for sure what they need to be named. And actually this time we aren't planning on finding out the gender of the baby before hand--we figure that since we already have a boy and a girl we are already prepared either way. I've had several doula clients and friends not find out and it is really fun to see them discover it at the birth. It really is special and I'd sort of like to try it that way this time.

Anyway, I just wanted to clear that up. I guess I should have specified more that "Apricot" was a womb name but I just assumed that most of the people who read my blog were reading it when Rose was born and so they knew about womb names... but I guess that those who have only been reading the last two years might have been confused!