Did you name your angel/s?

.:Shortcake:. · #1 January 18th, 2011, 04:29 PM

Did you name your angels?
If you did, did it help give you closure?

My first loss really hit me the hardest because I was the farthest along and I think I went sort of numb after that. But the other day I finally sat down and gave him a name (they did testing and found out it was a boy). His name is Noah Allen. And I finally feel like after 2 years I have closure.

ohnicole · #2 January 18th, 2011, 04:42 PM

We never found out if our bean was a boy or a girl, so I feel like I haven't really been able to give him/her a name. I really wish we could have known. I think about it all the time. After our loss, I started calling our bean Cricket, just so I didn't have to think of him/her as 'the baby'. But it doesn't feel like a real nickname because we didn't use it before our loss.

Katie, you chose a great name

angel3y35 · #3 January 18th, 2011, 05:07 PM

We didn't name ours since it was such an early loss and there was no way to know if it was a boy or a girl. BUT I named her. I felt from the very beginning it was a girl and that feeling hasn't changed. I named her Isabella Grace. The name just popped in my head one afternoon when I was lying in bed. I had no idea what it meant until I looked it up and it fit perfectly.

Jessica121706 · #4 January 18th, 2011, 05:09 PM

i wanted to but after the abortion i had a melt down (i had forgotten 8 weeks thought i was pregnant when i woke up forgot about the first trimester screen and the decision of abortion, it was badand no one wanted to tell me the sex df didn't care if he knew or not so i didn't really press on it.

.:Shortcake:. · #5 January 18th, 2011, 05:10 PM

Thanks Nicole! I obsessed for hours when I decided to name him and finally chose that one because it just felt like it suited him

Paige I love that name! And I think we do have a intuition as to what our babies were.

Hugs Jessica that had to be super hard on you!

Braysmomma03 · #6 January 18th, 2011, 05:14 PM

We nicknamed our baby "baby bob square head" long story short I tell my husband that he has a square head and while I was pregnant and tired all the time I would tell him its hard work making a square headed baby

SillyKitty · #7 January 18th, 2011, 05:18 PM

Love the name, Katie.

We actually just named our most recent loss Rosebud. DH thinks it was a girl, and we buried "her" by our rose bushes.

.:Shortcake:. · #8 January 18th, 2011, 05:24 PM

Michelle- Hehe that is funny

Cute nickname!

Jess- Thank you

And I love how you came up with her name!

Joanna1127 · #9 January 18th, 2011, 05:26 PM

I never knew the sex. Perhaps if I did I may have thought more about a name.

Beautiful names everyone!

MeganMomof5 · #10 January 18th, 2011, 06:13 PM

love the name Katie

Ella had a name when I lost her already, I named her probably a week or so before she died...I didn't name my miscarriages, I don't even have nick names for them...I didn't know the gender...I begged my doctor to find out the gender of the 2nd baby, but they couldn't tell...I don't think I would of named it any way.

Celena · #11 January 18th, 2011, 06:15 PM

Not really per se, they've all been our angel babe, angel baby, Christmas miracle & our last loss Rocky.

.:Shortcake:. · #12 January 18th, 2011, 06:21 PM

I haven't named any others just my first... I felt such a strong bond with him

dreamer10 · #13 January 18th, 2011, 06:21 PM

The first three I didn't name...I think it was more for the fact that we didn't know what they were. With the last we could see on u/s that it was a boy, so I decided to name him David Malachi. It means Beloved Angel. It just seemed fitting...

.:Shortcake:. · #14 January 18th, 2011, 06:22 PM

Julie I love the name and how fitting

wishfulgal · #15 January 18th, 2011, 06:33 PM

I was obviously not far along enough to know the gender, but when we found out I was pregnant, DH would pray at the supper table for "our little miracle", so I think I will always think of this baby as "Our little Miracle"...because it was such a miracle that we even got pregnant.

okiliz · #16 January 18th, 2011, 06:57 PM

I named our twins Andrew and Caleb ... I felt better after naming them.. I was 10. weeks along when we lost baby A, so to speak and it just upset me to keep calling them letters . Because my body was not letting the babies go we had to do a D&C and did the testing and found out they were boys..

AZsnowflake · #17 January 18th, 2011, 07:06 PM

I wasn't far along enough to know the gender, but we tried to think of unisex names and none of them sounded right. Snowflake popped into my head and we went with that. I know a lot of people think that's silly because it's not "a real name" but it is to us, it's real for that baby. It just seemed perfect for us because the baby was tiny like a snowflake, unique like a snowflake, a blessing like a snowflake, and came in the winter.

StaceygirlPa · #18 January 19th, 2011, 03:26 AM

The first loss we were farthest along. We didn't know what the gender was but from day one for some reason one day I started calling the baby peanut. After that dh and his sister (the only other peson who knew we were pregnant) called our baby peanut. We still refer to the first loss as peanut. The other two losses were that far alone and the losses were so fast we didn't name them.

I love all the names everyone has picked out for thier angels.

BeccaM · #19 January 19th, 2011, 05:13 AM

My loss was at 8 weeks so we did not know the gender. But from day one we called h/she baby walnut. DH came up with walnut since a walnut is hard and it was going to be hardheaded like me!

ashj_1218 · #20 January 19th, 2011, 06:19 AM

I named the angel we had lost "first" at 9 weeks. That one I was really attached to and it hit me the hardest. The chemicals that followed I, sadly, did not name them. I might now, especially since I know they WERE in fact babies that my body was fighting and not just weird chemical changes (as the docs tried to tell me first). And I did have strong gender feelings, but I never had any confirmed. DH chooses not to deal with any of it, so I named him myself and it does help me think of him as more real and someone I can talk to when I need to.

His name is Seth.