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Kelsey: Playing The Name Game

Kelsey Saintz (pictured), a Shoshone News-Press reporter, who is close to the delivery date for her first baby, posts the following in her This Is Not A Fairy Tale blog, titled "The Name Game." She writes: "I asked this quite a while ago before I knew many Mumblrs, and I’m still curious. When did you decide the name of your baby? Before it was born? Or maybe once you knew the gender? Did you have a name picked out and change your mind when it was born because it didn’t seem fitting?I know many people in our generation name them before birth and refer to the baby with their name during pregnancy, and people in my mom’s generation say to wait because you need to see what they’re like first. What to do, what to do …"

Question: How did you select the names of your children?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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