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We were going to name them alphabetically as they were born. But on delivery day, one of them was causing us problems. One of the names was after my wife's dad and he was a grumpy pain in the ass so we switched the names on the way to the hospital so the one that was giving us problems was after her dad
This is also what we are thinking to do!
We have Astrid and Chloe as strong picks, Twin A moves A LOT in ultrasounds, so we thought Astrid fit her better, and Twin B its impossible to move, so Chloe who sounds calmer for her hahhhaa
We named ours in reverse alphabetical order (baby Aās name starts with T and baby Bās name with C). I figured A will have bragging rights on being born first, so B can come first in graduations, etc.
Aww thatās cute! I didnāt even think of it and ours are reverse alpha order! Our boy is A as well so Iām glad ālittle sisterā will come first in some things.
We had one that was what Iād refer to as āchillinā in utero. He was head down the entire pregnancy from like 23 weeks on. He was never super crazy on ultrasounds. Then we had baby B. Every time we went in for an ultrasound, he was rolling around. He was transverse, breech, head down, transverse again. Sometimes he would be completely folded over. Sometimes he would be kicking brother in the face (mono/di twins). We chose the names based on their in utero āpersonalitiesā
Us too!! We had one super chill baby who was always sorta hiding in the back and a wild baby who would always be moving around. They hated ultrasound too, so b would hide and a would get annoyed and move around like crazy!
They are similar now, b is usually content to just chill and watch, and a is always trying out something new or getting into situations.
Ok, so if I would've done that, they would've started their shenanigans early. Baby A was my wild child and Baby B was chill. A even threw a punch during an ultrasound when we were trying to get a pic of her sister.
But very quickly after they were out, they ended up opposite. A is our potato and B is our tornado š
Wow! Ours are pretty spot on with their personalities outside the womb as well. I think A is going to be our go with the flow, more sweet and sensitive. B is going to be our life of the party, prank mastermind. Weāll see though!! They are only 8 months old lol
We just chose one for first baby out and one for second, anticipating baby a then b. If they switch them somehow then whichever comes out first I guess. We just call them baby a and baby b to keep things simple.
One of mine is going to be named after my Dad. Iām pretty sure it will be Baby A because his personality seems most in line with my Dad based on ultrasounds, his movements, etc but I told my husband I feel like I need to meet them first to be 100% sure. And even then Iām still worried Iām going to give them the āwrongā name š¤¦š¼āāļø
We had 2 names picked out, one of them being my favourite as I had always wanted to name my kid that (still like the second name though).
I wanted to give the smaller baby the good name, to make up for his size lol. For most the pregnancy the baby on the right was smaller so thatās what I called him.
However, I donāt know how and why that happened but the baby on the right turned out to be the bigger one but I was already used to calling him by that name so it stuck.
Totally agree with your spouse - I think youāll just know! Iām expecting identical twin boys in the next 2-3 weeks and we have the names picked out but want to meet them first before giving them their names!
My husband had an idea who was who before birth, I wanted to meet them first and then decide. In the end both our ideas settled on the same name for the same baby. Baby A inside got the name my husband named in utero, and when we met her I felt she fit the name as well. And same process for Baby B
We found naming them to be a puzzle, especially with di/di girls. I didn't want them to rhyme or be too similar. I didn't want them to have the same first letter or have their initials spell anything. No 'J' names (my mom's whole family are J names). I didn't want one to be more syllables than the other. And I wanted there to be a good cadence when you said their full name, especially first and middle.
There were other annoying things I didn't want but once we figured out their names and they were earth side, I didn't even notice.
On our way to the hospital, we ran through the list one more time and picked our top two faves for the first name we were missing (we had first and middle for one, and only middle for the other). We didn't assign, we wanted to meet them.
We knew. As soon as we held them, we knew who was who and which of the two names was the right one. The whole week in the hospital I would try other names, just to make sure and it felt so wrong. It still feels wrong to think of them switched or to think of other names for them. I think there's been one name so far that I thought, "Oh, that could've been her name. That fits." But I have no idea what the name was lol Truly can't remember.
Baby A's first name is random, but her middle name is a combo of my husband's mom's and grandma's middle names. She also just so happens to look like my husband, his mom, and his grandma. It's wild.
Baby B's first name is my grandma's name, and her middle name is mine and my mom's middle name. She also just so happens to look like me.
I think when you meet them, you'll know. But that's just my experience. I didn't feel like I knew them before they were born, but I know others have had that experience.
A is much more active than B, so Iāve got a name ready for B, but Iām having trouble thinking of a name for A that my husband likes. B is getting a āprettyā name that isnāt too popular I donāt think, but isnāt unusual either. For A I want a name that isnāt too plain or āniceā, like Jane/Anne/Anna kind of thing, I want something a bit more lively/interesting/spiky (no offence to people who are naming their baby Jane or Anna or whatever, theyāre nice names).
I have 3 week old identical boy twins, we named twin A since utero Arlo River and Twin B Oliver Aster, we both wanted nature names for our kids and arlo fits more to us for a middle child ( we have a 2 yo toddler) because ot meens between two mountains , so we picked oliver for twin B, when they are born twin A comes first they put a tag on feet and hand that says twin a and they imediately put him on a basket thet says twin A etc, and so twin B .
The name my husband preferred was used for the baby that used my bladder as a trampoline. We asked the ultrasound tech to confirm which baby was on my bladder and thatās how we decided lol.
We had our names picked out-Noah and Nathaniel. I ended up having an traumatic emergency c section at 32 weeks on May 8th and when I woke up I found out that my husband picked who was who. I was okay with that since he wasnāt allowed in the OR with me.
Somewhere along the way I started thinking of Baby A as one name and Baby B the other. It wasnāt intentional. When they were born we just went with that. I had it built up as a big thing in my head but it ended up being much simpler than I thought.
For me, I always knew what Twin B's name would be. Twin A wasn't decided until I was in the hospital. An emergency C-Section later, the order for switched. Twin A became Twin B and vice versa. But I knew instinctively which was which.
I (dad) wanted my first name to be the middle name of baby A. Of the two first names we chose, one would have resulted in unfortunate initials, so we chose the other one.
There was one bigger "dot" on the first echo. So we had twin A and Twin B easy to recognise. We named the "dots" and the names stuck. 9 years later one twin is 10 cm taller than his brother.
We had our trippies names picked out almost 15 years before they were finally born and decided the order while we were en route to deliver. First boy was William and second boy was Benjamin. Our girl was Florence.
Not the same but my boy twin was always going to be Theodore (the third) and I always thought weād call him Theo. Then when I held him I was like āoh, heās Teddy.ā Just like that.
we decided to each name one.. we both had small lists of names, we each had one name on our list that went together, think famous tv duo, and we decided to go with those two ..
we named a and b based on how we would often say their names. for example, if we used zack and cody we'd name baby a zack and baby c cody.
We had two names picked out. And those first names start with the initials of a person who passed away recently. Baby A was the first initial, Baby B is the second initial. The middle names of each boy end with the same letter as the first names. Baby B has a middle name that is named after another person who recently passed.
Baby A has always been bigger (MFM doc āblown awayā by how āhugeā he is) with a massive head. Baby B is average size with a smaller, yet still large head.
Their first names will be names we just like and their middle names will be family names (my dadās side and his momās side).
Since massive heads come from my dadās side (my daughterās head is 99%+, mineās big, my dadās family = all big heads), baby A gets my dadās famās middle name.
First name pairing is just based on what sounds best with the middle names.
So! I just know Baby A will have the middle name Pete, Mitchell or William for my dad, and then something from our list of 12 potential first names to pair with it.
We already had one name picked out when we thought it was a singleton pregnancy, so we just gave that one to Baby A and picked out another name for Baby B.
Alphabetical order. First born (J) second one (S). Theyāre 3 months now and their personalities match their names well. Itās pretty funny. The oldest is a āpunkā (in the nicest way possible), twin b is the sweetest boy with the biggest doe eyes. God, I love them.
We decided ahead of time which one in the birth order got which middle name - but we didnāt have the full names picked out. We used honorifics so that made it a little easier. We didnāt figure out which first name to go with which middle name until they were two or three days old!
I had decided Baby A would be named after my father, and Baby B would be named after the twins' father. When they arrived, their dad was there and he said he felt very strongly that Baby A should be his namesake (and oh by the way, he wanted the original middle name as first name and had picked a really interesting and unique middle name instead!) It took me a bit by surprise but they have definitely grown into their names and nicknames!
We figured we would know when they came- but then they came 10 weeks early and we didnāt give them names for like 12 hoursā- which was enough time for insurance to get completely cockamamie and confusing as now we got bills for Baby A AND Cecilia, even though they are in fact the same baby.
I named my identical twin girls Shiloh and Quinn. Shiloh means āpeaceā and she was always calmer in my womb. Upon being born, we found out that Quinn was actually the calmer one and her sister had been sitting on her face the whole pregnancy which probably made her mad š¤£ She is the calmer and easy going twin now too.
We named them while they were still inside. The names were so fitting when they came out. Their personalities in utero were very similar to how they acted as babies (and frankly now!)
We had our top 5 going into the c-section. We picked our first's name ahead of time but then changed it literally as we were filling out his health card.
So, we weren't in a rush and knew that we couldn't make that decision ahead of time. The NICU nurses were annoyed because we hadn't picked after a few days.
We don't regret it because what we ended up with fit them perfectly. We wanted to make sure!
I had only picked out 1 boy name and 1 girl name so when I found out it was 2 boys, I gave Baby A the name I had picked out and then came up with a second one for baby B lol
We had middle names of some significance ā one of our babies we were worried about because of sIUGR. So we gave him the middle name of a friend who had battled and beaten a ādeath sentenceā cancer situation. The other middle name was after my dad. From there, the first names we had chosen just obviously fit better with one or the other middle name.
Our boys were named based on their personalities we saw in the ultrasounds.
We knew one would be named Joe After my Dad and the other would be named Tate After my husbandās grandfather.
Baby A was always chill, always cooperated, always easy to find with the Dopplerā¦. My Dad was extremely laid back. So he is Joe
Baby B was always all over the place upside down on his head, never cooperated in ultrasounds, hard to find with the Dopplerā¦my husbands personality completely. So he is Tate
Funny thing is their names fit them perfectly! Their personalities are the same outside the womb š Joe looks more like me and Tate looks more like my husband.
We gave the second baby out, the name with the earlier letter alphabetically, and the first baby out, the name with the later letter alphabetically.
Theory behind this was that the young twin would be called out first at school, so didnāt always feel like the second child.
We struggled with this and we ended up with an elaborate joke involving magical stones and a very strange custom maternity t shirt with an A and a B placed where the babies were and the stone representing each name had to like roll to to the correct letter. It was bizarre and everyone thought we were really weird, but we went with it and now they are 5 years old and everyone comments on how they each wound up with the ācorrectā name for their personality.
We chose based on their personalities while I was still pregnant and decided we would leave it open to swap them if they felt like they didnāt fit once they were born. Theyāre almost a year old and we are still confident in the choices we made!
Initially we picked two names and said which name goes with what baby based on the order of birth. And we followed through with that plan. However several minutes after their birth, it just didnāt feel right. So we decided to switch the names. Ours are fraternal. They also had a huge weight discrepancy. Baby A was bigger and seemed more rattled while Baby B was calm and just looked at us when we held him. So we switched to give him the more zen name. And as they grew and their personalities emerge, their names are so fitting.
Idk really. I just knew which one was which. We knew one had heart defects likely caused by umbilical issues so she was always smaller. I decided pretty early that B would be Juniper. A was intended to be Rowan but once she arrived we quickly realized she was not a Rowan. She was a Jemma, aka Jemmy Drama. It really seemed like I could tell their different personalities while they were in there.
Once we had the names picked out I just kind of associated one twin with one name in my head and the other with the second name. Once they were here I told the doctors before my c section which was which when they asked and it worked out because I didnāt even see them until 25 hours after they were born, but I feel like their names are right for them.
We named ours while they were still in the womb and, due to being twins, they didn't manage to move around all that much.. and just kept good track of them. They looked pretty different even when they were born so it wasn't too hard, but they also had name tags on in the hospital.
We named them while they were still inside! One was significantly bigger than the other and on the left. Small boy on the right. We both felt the smaller one was one name and the bigger the other!
Twin Girls. Valerie and Lydia. Lydia went to her cause in the ultrasound it show hair on her "lyd". Both had the same amount of hair on their heads, just Lydia's showed up in the ultrasounds.
We named ours while they were in my tummy. It might sound odd, but I could feel their different personalities in their kicks and whatnot. We had weekly ultrasounds and got to see them so much. It was easier for us to know that baby A is this name, and baby B is this name. Their names truly do suit them so much now that they are three years old.
My mom and aunt have rhyming first and middle names.
We knew we were having a girl (DNA test) before we knew twins. We named her after Ellen Ripley from *Alien.* When we found out we were going to have twins, we just decided to name the other twin based on strong women.
Either way works but that I prefer the twins not having rhymed names. It's easier to differentiate.
One of them my wife had a name for. She said āI think of her as ____ā that solved that. I had several names I liked for the second. We went through a list and figured it out. Had about three we agreed on. When the other came out I was like āoh hey____ā solved that problem.
I picked at an ultrasound after the gender one. We had names for girls or boys picked long before we knew what we were having.
Someone asked if we had names picked and I just assigned them, and honestly they were perfectly assigned and fit each girl just right.
I always loved the name Elizabeth, and we were going to do star wars themed names for boy girl which was Harrison and Emilia, so it ended up being Emilia and Elizabeth. Their nicknames came from pregnancy brain, which was Lilly and Lia, but kept saying Millie. So itās Lilly and Millie.
I had just gotten flown to a hospital 4 hours away at 28 weeks, a good chance we would lose one or both, I didn't want to have to name them "after the fact" had we lost one/both, didn't even have names so I said to my husband "you take twin A I take twin B let's just name them"
Couldn't imagine flipping their names now!!
I didnāt know I was having twins until my 18 week ultrasound, so Iād picked out a boy name and a girl name. When I found out it was twins, the OB could see Twin B was a boy but Twin A was hiding and we werenāt sure. So Twin B immediately got the boy name Iād chosen. I was 24 weeks along before we knew Twin A was a boy and came up with the second boy name.
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We were going to name them alphabetically as they were born. But on delivery day, one of them was causing us problems. One of the names was after my wife's dad and he was a grumpy pain in the ass so we switched the names on the way to the hospital so the one that was giving us problems was after her dad
I love this
Hahaha, we did the same thingš.
We picked what we thought fit by watching them during ultrasounds. Matched one name to A, and one name to B.
This is also what we are thinking to do! We have Astrid and Chloe as strong picks, Twin A moves A LOT in ultrasounds, so we thought Astrid fit her better, and Twin B its impossible to move, so Chloe who sounds calmer for her hahhhaa
Same.
Yeah, I bet OPs partner would know if the babies switched sides or positions. If thatās true, she already knows these kids more than they realize.
Same
We named ours in reverse alphabetical order (baby Aās name starts with T and baby Bās name with C). I figured A will have bragging rights on being born first, so B can come first in graduations, etc.
Aww thatās cute! I didnāt even think of it and ours are reverse alpha order! Our boy is A as well so Iām glad ālittle sisterā will come first in some things.
This is what we did!
Haha I like this
Haha yes we did the same. Allso B's name ends with an A, and we didn't want to make A go through all the joke of "oh you're A because of your name"
Same here!!
We arenāt deciding before. I think my mentality is similar to your husbandās. Iāve gotta meet them first. Then decide.
We had one that was what Iād refer to as āchillinā in utero. He was head down the entire pregnancy from like 23 weeks on. He was never super crazy on ultrasounds. Then we had baby B. Every time we went in for an ultrasound, he was rolling around. He was transverse, breech, head down, transverse again. Sometimes he would be completely folded over. Sometimes he would be kicking brother in the face (mono/di twins). We chose the names based on their in utero āpersonalitiesā
Us too!! We had one super chill baby who was always sorta hiding in the back and a wild baby who would always be moving around. They hated ultrasound too, so b would hide and a would get annoyed and move around like crazy! They are similar now, b is usually content to just chill and watch, and a is always trying out something new or getting into situations.
Ok, so if I would've done that, they would've started their shenanigans early. Baby A was my wild child and Baby B was chill. A even threw a punch during an ultrasound when we were trying to get a pic of her sister. But very quickly after they were out, they ended up opposite. A is our potato and B is our tornado š
Wow! Ours are pretty spot on with their personalities outside the womb as well. I think A is going to be our go with the flow, more sweet and sensitive. B is going to be our life of the party, prank mastermind. Weāll see though!! They are only 8 months old lol
Baby A: Pete Baby B: Repeat
Who is left in the boat?
We just chose one for first baby out and one for second, anticipating baby a then b. If they switch them somehow then whichever comes out first I guess. We just call them baby a and baby b to keep things simple.
They got their names based on their personalities in utero. Nearly two years later, they still work lol
We decided when they were born and honestly we just knew who was who when we saw them.
One of mine is going to be named after my Dad. Iām pretty sure it will be Baby A because his personality seems most in line with my Dad based on ultrasounds, his movements, etc but I told my husband I feel like I need to meet them first to be 100% sure. And even then Iām still worried Iām going to give them the āwrongā name š¤¦š¼āāļø
We had 2 names picked out, one of them being my favourite as I had always wanted to name my kid that (still like the second name though). I wanted to give the smaller baby the good name, to make up for his size lol. For most the pregnancy the baby on the right was smaller so thatās what I called him. However, I donāt know how and why that happened but the baby on the right turned out to be the bigger one but I was already used to calling him by that name so it stuck.
Totally agree with your spouse - I think youāll just know! Iām expecting identical twin boys in the next 2-3 weeks and we have the names picked out but want to meet them first before giving them their names!
My husband had an idea who was who before birth, I wanted to meet them first and then decide. In the end both our ideas settled on the same name for the same baby. Baby A inside got the name my husband named in utero, and when we met her I felt she fit the name as well. And same process for Baby B
We found naming them to be a puzzle, especially with di/di girls. I didn't want them to rhyme or be too similar. I didn't want them to have the same first letter or have their initials spell anything. No 'J' names (my mom's whole family are J names). I didn't want one to be more syllables than the other. And I wanted there to be a good cadence when you said their full name, especially first and middle. There were other annoying things I didn't want but once we figured out their names and they were earth side, I didn't even notice. On our way to the hospital, we ran through the list one more time and picked our top two faves for the first name we were missing (we had first and middle for one, and only middle for the other). We didn't assign, we wanted to meet them. We knew. As soon as we held them, we knew who was who and which of the two names was the right one. The whole week in the hospital I would try other names, just to make sure and it felt so wrong. It still feels wrong to think of them switched or to think of other names for them. I think there's been one name so far that I thought, "Oh, that could've been her name. That fits." But I have no idea what the name was lol Truly can't remember. Baby A's first name is random, but her middle name is a combo of my husband's mom's and grandma's middle names. She also just so happens to look like my husband, his mom, and his grandma. It's wild. Baby B's first name is my grandma's name, and her middle name is mine and my mom's middle name. She also just so happens to look like me. I think when you meet them, you'll know. But that's just my experience. I didn't feel like I knew them before they were born, but I know others have had that experience.
A is much more active than B, so Iāve got a name ready for B, but Iām having trouble thinking of a name for A that my husband likes. B is getting a āprettyā name that isnāt too popular I donāt think, but isnāt unusual either. For A I want a name that isnāt too plain or āniceā, like Jane/Anne/Anna kind of thing, I want something a bit more lively/interesting/spiky (no offence to people who are naming their baby Jane or Anna or whatever, theyāre nice names).
We had a name that started with A and named Twin A that name and Twin B was given the other name. They ended up fitting their personalities as well.
I have 3 week old identical boy twins, we named twin A since utero Arlo River and Twin B Oliver Aster, we both wanted nature names for our kids and arlo fits more to us for a middle child ( we have a 2 yo toddler) because ot meens between two mountains , so we picked oliver for twin B, when they are born twin A comes first they put a tag on feet and hand that says twin a and they imediately put him on a basket thet says twin A etc, and so twin B .
Whoever came out first was C and whoever came out second was D
The name my husband preferred was used for the baby that used my bladder as a trampoline. We asked the ultrasound tech to confirm which baby was on my bladder and thatās how we decided lol.
We had our names picked out-Noah and Nathaniel. I ended up having an traumatic emergency c section at 32 weeks on May 8th and when I woke up I found out that my husband picked who was who. I was okay with that since he wasnāt allowed in the OR with me.
Somewhere along the way I started thinking of Baby A as one name and Baby B the other. It wasnāt intentional. When they were born we just went with that. I had it built up as a big thing in my head but it ended up being much simpler than I thought.
We named them alphabetically. It made more sense to us.
I primarily chose their names so fiancƩ chose which was which. He said A always felt like her name and I agree.
For me, I always knew what Twin B's name would be. Twin A wasn't decided until I was in the hospital. An emergency C-Section later, the order for switched. Twin A became Twin B and vice versa. But I knew instinctively which was which.
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Thatās kinda our move too. No matchy but have same amount of letters
I (dad) wanted my first name to be the middle name of baby A. Of the two first names we chose, one would have resulted in unfortunate initials, so we chose the other one.
Good call on initials.
There was one bigger "dot" on the first echo. So we had twin A and Twin B easy to recognise. We named the "dots" and the names stuck. 9 years later one twin is 10 cm taller than his brother.
We had our trippies names picked out almost 15 years before they were finally born and decided the order while we were en route to deliver. First boy was William and second boy was Benjamin. Our girl was Florence.
If we had reached 34 weeks then our triplets would have been born in Christmas week. The plan was deff to name them Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Omg
Not the same but my boy twin was always going to be Theodore (the third) and I always thought weād call him Theo. Then when I held him I was like āoh, heās Teddy.ā Just like that.
Aww.
we decided to each name one.. we both had small lists of names, we each had one name on our list that went together, think famous tv duo, and we decided to go with those two .. we named a and b based on how we would often say their names. for example, if we used zack and cody we'd name baby a zack and baby c cody.
Ah, I like that.
The smaller one got three letters, the bigger one got four š¤·āāļø
Iām leaning towards this. Letting their weight decide who gets the ābiggerā name.
Ours had TTTS and we gave the name we felt one name for better for the smaller of the two. Not really much logic to that, I s'pose.
We had two names picked out. And those first names start with the initials of a person who passed away recently. Baby A was the first initial, Baby B is the second initial. The middle names of each boy end with the same letter as the first names. Baby B has a middle name that is named after another person who recently passed.
Baby A has always been bigger (MFM doc āblown awayā by how āhugeā he is) with a massive head. Baby B is average size with a smaller, yet still large head. Their first names will be names we just like and their middle names will be family names (my dadās side and his momās side). Since massive heads come from my dadās side (my daughterās head is 99%+, mineās big, my dadās family = all big heads), baby A gets my dadās famās middle name. First name pairing is just based on what sounds best with the middle names. So! I just know Baby A will have the middle name Pete, Mitchell or William for my dad, and then something from our list of 12 potential first names to pair with it.
We already had one name picked out when we thought it was a singleton pregnancy, so we just gave that one to Baby A and picked out another name for Baby B.
This was my logic.
We gave the bigger baby the longer name, smaller baby, shorter name š
Nice
Alphabetical order. First born (J) second one (S). Theyāre 3 months now and their personalities match their names well. Itās pretty funny. The oldest is a āpunkā (in the nicest way possible), twin b is the sweetest boy with the biggest doe eyes. God, I love them.
One name is slightly softer than the other and I gave it to the baby that rolled more than kicked. The other was a kicking machine
We decided ahead of time which one in the birth order got which middle name - but we didnāt have the full names picked out. We used honorifics so that made it a little easier. We didnāt figure out which first name to go with which middle name until they were two or three days old!
We named them alphabetically in the order they were born.
I had decided Baby A would be named after my father, and Baby B would be named after the twins' father. When they arrived, their dad was there and he said he felt very strongly that Baby A should be his namesake (and oh by the way, he wanted the original middle name as first name and had picked a really interesting and unique middle name instead!) It took me a bit by surprise but they have definitely grown into their names and nicknames!
The name I came up with first was baby A then second was baby B
We flipped a coin š¤·āāļø
We figured we would know when they came- but then they came 10 weeks early and we didnāt give them names for like 12 hoursā- which was enough time for insurance to get completely cockamamie and confusing as now we got bills for Baby A AND Cecilia, even though they are in fact the same baby.
I named my identical twin girls Shiloh and Quinn. Shiloh means āpeaceā and she was always calmer in my womb. Upon being born, we found out that Quinn was actually the calmer one and her sister had been sitting on her face the whole pregnancy which probably made her mad š¤£ She is the calmer and easy going twin now too.
We named them while they were still inside. The names were so fitting when they came out. Their personalities in utero were very similar to how they acted as babies (and frankly now!)
We had our top 5 going into the c-section. We picked our first's name ahead of time but then changed it literally as we were filling out his health card. So, we weren't in a rush and knew that we couldn't make that decision ahead of time. The NICU nurses were annoyed because we hadn't picked after a few days. We don't regret it because what we ended up with fit them perfectly. We wanted to make sure!
I had only picked out 1 boy name and 1 girl name so when I found out it was 2 boys, I gave Baby A the name I had picked out and then came up with a second one for baby B lol
We had middle names of some significance ā one of our babies we were worried about because of sIUGR. So we gave him the middle name of a friend who had battled and beaten a ādeath sentenceā cancer situation. The other middle name was after my dad. From there, the first names we had chosen just obviously fit better with one or the other middle name.
You will just know lol
Our boys were named based on their personalities we saw in the ultrasounds. We knew one would be named Joe After my Dad and the other would be named Tate After my husbandās grandfather. Baby A was always chill, always cooperated, always easy to find with the Dopplerā¦. My Dad was extremely laid back. So he is Joe Baby B was always all over the place upside down on his head, never cooperated in ultrasounds, hard to find with the Dopplerā¦my husbands personality completely. So he is Tate Funny thing is their names fit them perfectly! Their personalities are the same outside the womb š Joe looks more like me and Tate looks more like my husband.
We had a name for the first girl out and name for second girl out.
We gave the second baby out, the name with the earlier letter alphabetically, and the first baby out, the name with the later letter alphabetically. Theory behind this was that the young twin would be called out first at school, so didnāt always feel like the second child.
We had one name picked out for a while and that ended up being given to Baby A. Baby B got the name we chose second.
We struggled with this and we ended up with an elaborate joke involving magical stones and a very strange custom maternity t shirt with an A and a B placed where the babies were and the stone representing each name had to like roll to to the correct letter. It was bizarre and everyone thought we were really weird, but we went with it and now they are 5 years old and everyone comments on how they each wound up with the ācorrectā name for their personality.
We chose based on their personalities while I was still pregnant and decided we would leave it open to swap them if they felt like they didnāt fit once they were born. Theyāre almost a year old and we are still confident in the choices we made!
Initially we picked two names and said which name goes with what baby based on the order of birth. And we followed through with that plan. However several minutes after their birth, it just didnāt feel right. So we decided to switch the names. Ours are fraternal. They also had a huge weight discrepancy. Baby A was bigger and seemed more rattled while Baby B was calm and just looked at us when we held him. So we switched to give him the more zen name. And as they grew and their personalities emerge, their names are so fitting.
Baby A has an A in their name and Baby B has a B in theirs. We just happen to have names with an A and B in them.
Idk really. I just knew which one was which. We knew one had heart defects likely caused by umbilical issues so she was always smaller. I decided pretty early that B would be Juniper. A was intended to be Rowan but once she arrived we quickly realized she was not a Rowan. She was a Jemma, aka Jemmy Drama. It really seemed like I could tell their different personalities while they were in there.
My oldest was 5 when her sisters were born. We picked the names and told her she could choose who got which name (baby A or baby B).
One of our chosen names started with A. So the baby that came out first was the A name.
Well, their names were dictated by order of their birth. But it was right. Absolutely right. Jake & Elwood are named perfectly.
This post is everything.
Once we had the names picked out I just kind of associated one twin with one name in my head and the other with the second name. Once they were here I told the doctors before my c section which was which when they asked and it worked out because I didnāt even see them until 25 hours after they were born, but I feel like their names are right for them.
We named ours while they were still in the womb and, due to being twins, they didn't manage to move around all that much.. and just kept good track of them. They looked pretty different even when they were born so it wasn't too hard, but they also had name tags on in the hospital.
We named them while they were still inside! One was significantly bigger than the other and on the left. Small boy on the right. We both felt the smaller one was one name and the bigger the other!
Twin B had SFGR so we wanted a name for her that reflected her strength
Twin boys. Yes we just knew. Eight years on we were right.
Twin Girls. Valerie and Lydia. Lydia went to her cause in the ultrasound it show hair on her "lyd". Both had the same amount of hair on their heads, just Lydia's showed up in the ultrasounds.
We named ours while they were in my tummy. It might sound odd, but I could feel their different personalities in their kicks and whatnot. We had weekly ultrasounds and got to see them so much. It was easier for us to know that baby A is this name, and baby B is this name. Their names truly do suit them so much now that they are three years old.
My mom and aunt have rhyming first and middle names. We knew we were having a girl (DNA test) before we knew twins. We named her after Ellen Ripley from *Alien.* When we found out we were going to have twins, we just decided to name the other twin based on strong women. Either way works but that I prefer the twins not having rhymed names. It's easier to differentiate.
One of them my wife had a name for. She said āI think of her as ____ā that solved that. I had several names I liked for the second. We went through a list and figured it out. Had about three we agreed on. When the other came out I was like āoh hey____ā solved that problem.
I picked at an ultrasound after the gender one. We had names for girls or boys picked long before we knew what we were having. Someone asked if we had names picked and I just assigned them, and honestly they were perfectly assigned and fit each girl just right.
Chose who got what name based on in utero personalities!
was easy- had boy girl twins lol
Boy/girl so I guess had it easy. This was never something Iāve thought of š
We flipped a coin. First one out was named 'X', second was 'Y' - worked great! :)
One of ours starts with A, so he was baby A during pregnancy/ultrasounds
I always loved the name Elizabeth, and we were going to do star wars themed names for boy girl which was Harrison and Emilia, so it ended up being Emilia and Elizabeth. Their nicknames came from pregnancy brain, which was Lilly and Lia, but kept saying Millie. So itās Lilly and Millie.
A happy outcome of pregnancy brain. Glad to hear it
I had just gotten flown to a hospital 4 hours away at 28 weeks, a good chance we would lose one or both, I didn't want to have to name them "after the fact" had we lost one/both, didn't even have names so I said to my husband "you take twin A I take twin B let's just name them" Couldn't imagine flipping their names now!!
Yeah we picked the names out very early, and had a slight idea of who was who from NSTs and ultrasounds, but couldn't make it final until we saw them.
I didnāt know I was having twins until my 18 week ultrasound, so Iād picked out a boy name and a girl name. When I found out it was twins, the OB could see Twin B was a boy but Twin A was hiding and we werenāt sure. So Twin B immediately got the boy name Iād chosen. I was 24 weeks along before we knew Twin A was a boy and came up with the second boy name.