Would you give your 'new' child the same name? Read igt once and then reply
By ArienKing
@ArienKing (4647)
India
May 19, 2007 4:50am CST
Imagine you or your partner is pregnant. You already have names picked out and everything. The day of the birth the baby is stillborn or is premature and dies. Horrible as it may be, when and if you conceive again, would you give your new child the same name as the one who died?
2 responses
@us2owls (1681)
• United States
19 May 07
No I wouldn't dream of doing that. I think the second child might have thoughts as it was growing up that it was second best. I would find a totally different name and let the child I lost have the name chosen for it and it be the only one with that name. I am very thankful that I was never faced with this tupe of situation though.
@latsmom (824)
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19 May 07
I would not wish this to happen to anyone, but I woudl defiantely keep the name already chosen for my child. Just because they were not born living does not mean they were wanted any less and teh greiving would make me more intent to give the special name I chose during pregnancy.
i don't know if I woudl give another child the saem name but I don't think that is a problem if you are doing so in memory of the lost sibling. Although I feel sometimes when people do so outsiders would feel that they are doing so as a replacement.
If you had chosen a name during pregnancy and tehn decided against it because you want to save the saem for a healthy living child I think taht is not right but who am I to judge?
