Never say your baby's name, unless you have it very clear

If I have discovered something since I was a father and since the people around me and that I know are fathers and mothers is that when it comes to names, there is no possible dialogue: never say the name you will give your baby, unless you have it very clear.

I remember that when we waited for our first child we started looking for names until we found the one we liked and "married" him. Immovable. Decided. His name would be Jon, period. We do not ask anyone for advice, much less opinion.

However, while my sister was pregnant, in the middle of a family meal (and at home we are a few because we are six brothers), I do not know how the issue of the name that would be given to the future creature came out, but at that moment and for at least one Now, they only talked about possible names and how pretty or ugly they were.

This happened several years ago but I remember it as if it were today, because that time became eternal, and if it seemed eternal to me, imagine my sister, who no longer knew what face to wear, bored of hearing names and answering "I don't like it," "we'll see," "that no, that I know one who is called that and ..." and to listen to everyone else say the same ("I don't like it", "that one, I know one who is called that and ...").

From that day on I swore and perjured that I would never say the name of my next child to anyone if we had not already decided. No, because as you see a glimpse of doubt, a "probably we put this, but I still do not know" you have screwed up. They will tell you why they don't like that name and they will propose another one. And if there is someone nearby, he will say no to the proposal, the reason and still propose another while all you can do is smile like a fool (or fool) waiting for them to end.

This happened not long ago with a co-worker who came up with saying, before several other co-workers, that if she was a child she liked Candela. "Oh, no ... in the light of the candle!" Said one. Then he said he also liked April. "April, cerral, April, cerral ..., how are you going to put that name?" Said another. And so with every name he said.

I approached and said: "The worst thing you can do is ask for advice on the name, because they will drive you crazy," to which he replied: "Ughf, how right you are!"

So what was said, or you have very clear the name that you are going to put your baby, or closed mouth, for your sake. Then don't say I didn't warn.