http://open.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/naming-oab-roundtable-6 Blog with information on open adoption. Includes advice, tips, concerns, and news articles about open adoption. Birthparent and Adoptive parent blog on open adoption. Articles, information, and news about the open adoption experience. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:10:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://open.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/naming-oab-roundtable-6/comment-page-1#comment-2058 Karen M Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:24:10 +0000 http://open-adoptio.www.adoptionblogs.com/2009/08/30/naming-oab-roundtable-6#comment-2058 That's a great story! Thanks so much for sharing it. That’s a great story! Thanks so much for sharing it.

]]> http://open.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/naming-oab-roundtable-6/comment-page-1#comment-2057 calsmom Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:51:22 +0000 http://open-adoptio.www.adoptionblogs.com/2009/08/30/naming-oab-roundtable-6#comment-2057 Naming our baby wasn't a make or break thing for hubby and I. We really thought we wanted to collaborate with birthparents on it. Our son's birthparents had called him Spencer during her pregnancy, they didn't want to call the baby 'it!' Spencer is not only a good name, but it's his birthmom's middle name. We wanted him to have that name in some way to always give him that connection to her. We discussed naming with his birthparents once (He was born very early) and well, birthmom wasn't crazy about the name we had selected. She liked the name, but he 'didn't feel like that (name)...' OK, fine. So hubby and I talked some more. We liked Spencer a lot, but it sounds a lot like our last name and it just didn't sound good together! We knew we wanted to keep it as his middle name, though. So on the way to the hospital (50 mile drive)when he was born 11 weeks early, we decided on a first name half way there. He was born at 6:30 and by the time bmom was in her own room it was 11pm. She wanted to know if we had decided on a name. She and her parents were the first to hear us say "Calvin Spencer." Everybody loved it. And it fits him perfectly! Naming our baby wasn’t a make or break thing for hubby and I. We really thought we wanted to collaborate with birthparents on it.
Our son’s birthparents had called him Spencer during her pregnancy, they didn’t want to call the baby ‘it!’ Spencer is not only a good name, but it’s his birthmom’s middle name. We wanted him to have that name in some way to always give him that connection to her.
We discussed naming with his birthparents once (He was born very early) and well, birthmom wasn’t crazy about the name we had selected. She liked the name, but he ‘didn’t feel like that (name)…’ OK, fine. So hubby and I talked some more. We liked Spencer a lot, but it sounds a lot like our last name and it just didn’t sound good together! We knew we wanted to keep it as his middle name, though.
So on the way to the hospital (50 mile drive)when he was born 11 weeks early, we decided on a first name half way there. He was born at 6:30 and by the time bmom was in her own room it was 11pm. She wanted to know if we had decided on a name. She and her parents were the first to hear us say “Calvin Spencer.” Everybody loved it. And it fits him perfectly!

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