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Picking the name of another human being is serious business, people. I never understand those who leave this decision process to the very end. Heck, I’ve been looking into baby names since I first started planning this pregnancy, and that was almost a year ago! Sure, I might be on the other extreme end of [...]

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These baby names will give your girl a bright future! No longer content to just climb on the playground, today’s trampy tots have taken up pole dancing in countries like England and Canada, both known for their surplus of buxom babes and their Queen Elizabeth. Pole dancing has become so popular it seems, it may [...]

Pregnant hipster: this book is for you! If your life is defined by peculiar, particular, niche interests and a general sense of apathy it might be difficult to find a baby name to feel enthusiastic about. But never fear, hipster parents-to-be, Miek Bruno and Kerry Sparks have written the ultimate guide to unique and ironic [...]

I love unique names and prefer ones that are outside of any ‘top 100′ list if I can avoid it. Celebrities are often donned with their own unique name and it seems once they hit the scene with a bang, their name will quickly become fast-rising in the baby name charts. Huffington Post shared 12 [...]

by Stacie Lewis posted in Mom Stories Last week, Britain’s Office of National Statistics came out with its 2011 Top 100 Baby Names in England and Wales. My husband and I had held out a small hope that British Olympian, the Welsh diver Ieuan Lloyd, would claim a gold medal and glory for Baby Ieuan’s [...]

Can you guess what the new baby naming trend is based on this photo? Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I come up with names for my unborn or never-to-be born children. I don’t know if I’m done having kids but I keep coming up with names anyway. It’s soothing, better than counting sheep. The first [...]

by Lindsay Weiss posted in Mom Stories The hubs and I are in a standoff. The Battle of the Boy Names has commenced and Jeff is planted firmly in Team Ian. Ian. I can’t do Ian. Ian has more vowels than consanants. Ian is the name of the dopey, oaf-ish comedian in the novel I [...]

by Lindsay Weiss posted in Mom Stories The hubs and I are in a standoff. The Battle of the Boy Names has commenced and Jeff is planted firmly in Team Ian. Ian. I can’t do Ian. Ian has more vowels than consanants. Ian is the name of the dopey, oaf-ish comedian in the novel I [...]

Baby naming is an incredibly personal process that doesn’t need an outside chorus chirping advice and criticisms in your ear — as much as that tends to happen. That being said, there are certain “baby naming rules” that are worth following, lest you have a moment of what were we thinking? down the road. And [...]