How come we name our kids after they are born?

[SunSamurai]

What do you put on the headstone?

They name the child after.

I can understand it as sort of an emotional protection to some people. Name give things more 'humanity' to us.

 

[Squisher]

because it could die

At the beginning of the 20th century 1 in 10 kids would die before age of 1 and almost 1% of women died in childbirth. The death of a child was very common.

 

[jonks]

Plenty of people name their baby in utero, but the gov't shouldn't recognize it as a full person until birth. A line needs to be drawn somewhere and birth is just the easiest and most unambiguous spot to do it. That's not to say that gov't/society's interest in the unborn is zero, clearly some interest exists and that interest only strengthens the further along the pregnancy goes.

 

[EagleKeeper]

because it could die

What do you put on the headstone?

My sister has "Baby Girl"

 

[Modelworks]

At the beginning of the 20th century 1 in 10 kids would die before age of 1 and almost 1% of women died in childbirth. The death of a child was very common.

I did my families genealogy and had to visit cemeteries sometimes to get information. The number of baby and kids under 5 years old from the pre 1910 times is tragic. In my own history I found a family that lost 7 kids , all under 5 years old , this was in 1864.

 

[fleabag]

What do you put on the headstone?

you don't need a headstone, the toilet works just fine...

 

[Cheesetogo]

Plenty of people name their baby in utero, but the gov't shouldn't recognize it as a full person until birth. A line needs to be drawn somewhere and birth is just the easiest and most unambiguous spot to do it. That's not to say that gov't/society's interest in the unborn is zero, clearly some interest exists and that interest only strengthens the further along the pregnancy goes.

Please don't bring politics into this.

 

[darkxshade]

With our first child, we were told it was a boy, until she was born. Could have made naming odd if it were set in stone before hand.

That must've been awkward. "Uh honey, I think our son's a eunich" :\

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Some people don't want to know the sex before hand. So if you name your kid Tiffany and its a boy oops.

Parents named me emily before I was born >.< not funny.

 

[SZLiao214]

Maybe waiting till 12-13 would work better. I narrowly escaped being legally named "Puppy" when i was born at a time when my parents knew very little english. I was saved by a white uncle heh.

 

[CPA]

Why name them "right" after they are born? If we instituted some sort of "coming of age" ceremony in which the child is given their legal name at around the age of 12-13 or so they might end up with a name that actually reflects the kind of person they are. I think that would have far more meaning than the "tags" we give them at birth now.

You been hanging around Moonbeam lately?

 

[NFS4]

because it could die

Zed's dead, baby.

 

[dabuddha]

Why name them "right" after they are born? If we instituted some sort of "coming of age" ceremony in which the child is given their legal name at around the age of 12-13 or so they might end up with a name that actually reflects the kind of person they are. I think that would have far more meaning than the "tags" we give them at birth now.

Why name them at all?

 

[TehMac]

I don't name my moles, tumors, or my spleen. Why would I name another random growth before it's anything more?

Please tell me you are a guy.

 

[Gooberlx2]

My sister named hers before birth, my neighbors didn't. My sister wanted gender specific shit in order (rooms, supplies, toys, clothes, etc...) before her due date. My neighbors wanted the surprise and purchased a bunch of gender neutral shit instead.

No big deal either way, AFAIC.

 

[CPA]

Plenty of people name their baby in utero, but the gov't shouldn't recognize it as a full person until birth. A line needs to be drawn somewhere and birth is just the easiest and most unambiguous spot to do it. That's not to say that gov't/society's interest in the unborn is zero, clearly some interest exists and that interest only strengthens the further along the pregnancy goes.

Thanks for changing this to an abortion thread. 🙄

 

[Adrenaline]

Daughter was named before she was born. Next baby's name is already picked out if we have another one, which I hope we do.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I thought most people did that? We certainly named our son a couple of months before he was born.

You don't want to name them too early though, as miscarriages are very common until 13 or so weeks. Like 1 in 3. My wife has had two 🙁

 

[JDub02]

all of them. Robert E. L. J. E. B. S. T. J. S. J. J. D. W. W. JDub02

(the W. W. is woodrow wilson, because he segregated the DC school district and is therefore an old confederate, even though he was 10 when the war ended)

You'd be hard pressed to link Wilson to the south other than by birth. He acted like one of those damn yankees **cue the Nuge for a guitar solo

 

[Colt45]

low rates of infant mortality, and the ultrasound, are both recent inventions in the grand scheme of humans.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Because it is an it while it is still in the womb, which is why it is okay to abort it and eat it.