The story behind our little one’s name’s

Hi lovelies,

Today I thought it would be a good idea to tell you how Ben and I chose the names we did for our little ones.

Way before I even thought I would have children of my own I loved names (which I know sounds a bit weird) but I found them really interesting and loved choosing names for character’s in any stories I have ever written and then even before I got pregnant for the first time Ben and I spent quite a lot of time discussing ones that we did and didn’t like (I swear it takes having a child to realise just how many people out there you just don’t like haha)

I don’t have a middle name and neither does Ben so I think that was why we really made up for that with our children haha. And I will put the reason we chose each first and middle name so this may be quite a long post 🙂

Jaime Marwood

When I very first found out I was pregnant for the first time Ben and I spent a lot of time talking about names and one night he mentioned he liked the name Jaime as it meant I love in French sadly as most of you know I had a miscarriage with this pregnancy but it made me love this name even more because of the meaning. And of course because we didn’t know the gender of this little one I loved that it worked for a boy or a girl. So Jaime it was.

And Marwood sounded so right with Jaime and we loved that again it had a little bit of a story behind it.

Ben and I got engaged in Brighton, it was also the weekend that we had the big talk about whether we wanted to have children together too (all the big conversations happened that weekend didn’t they haha) But after we got engaged because we were both in a bit of a daze we ended up just walking around not quite knowing where we were going when we found this really quirky coffee shop called Marwood (pictured below)

We went in and Ben went to order our coffee’s and here is a fun little fact Ben also ordered a shot of something or other (to get over the shock me thinks haha) and told the guy serving it was because he had just gotten engaged. So that was actually the first person who knew 🙂 And at the time we both thought the name Marwood was really interesting.

But it was only on the train home that I decided to give it a quick google to find out the meaning and once I done that it only made me fall in love with it more as it means Lake next to the woods and when you consider we live on a boat it just seemed to fit us perfectly and we said that if we were lucky enough to have a baby then we would use it as a middle name. I also love how it goes so perfectly with Jaime.

It’s a perfect name for a perfect little somebody!

Delilah Elizabeth Sweetness

Then we went on to have Delilah and at our twenty week scan found out she was a little girl. One day I picked up the penguin book of baby names to see if we could find a name we loved. And I can so clearly remember being sat in my Mum’s place one day having a little leaf through and texting Ben the ones that I quite liked (and mostly getting back a big fat no) when I found Delilah so I sent it to him suddenly remembering the song Hey there Delilah by The plain white t’s. He messaged back that he liked Lila, without a H on the end. But I loved the way it looked with the H and with the added meaning of the song that was just stuck in my head.

So when he got home I made him listen to the song and he cried and so she was Delilah but most of the time she is Lilah for short, (it’s with the H on the end so I still win haha)

As for Elizabeth this has a very important meaning as it was also Ben’s mum’s middle name who sadly passed away  a few years ago just a short time before I met Ben and we both felt it was important Delilah had that little link to her Nanny Wendy.

Now Sweetness is a bit of a cutesy name and I know its not to everyone’s taste but Ben just said it one day randomly because he always call’s me Sweetie and it fit the rest of her name so perfectly it just had to be. And I personally think that because the rest of her name is quite classic you can get away with that little quirk at the end. Plus she is that bit quirky so it suits her down to the ground.

Georgie

Georgie was my third pregnancy but sadly this one too ended in a miscarriage just a few weeks before Ben and I got married and again although we never got the chance to know the gender we still wanted to give our little one a name.

And the story behind Georgie was that when I was having the miscarriage with Jaime I needed to get away, I didn’t want to see anyone I just very much wanted to hide and hopefully fade away. So Ben had the idea that we go to Brighton again but in the end I felt to ill to do so, so we ended up staying in a hotel in Reading for a couple of nights and because everyone thought we were in Brighton it was still the much needed escape. And that hotel was the George Hotel.

So when I sadly did lose this little one Georgie was the first name that both of us thought of as again it worked for a boy or a girl and once again it was deeply personal to us and our family.

Arabella Olive Blossom

And lastly we have this little lady whose name was so hard to decide upon we literally changed our minds every few days first of all she was going to be Matilda, then Eliza (but that one sounded a bit too much like Lilah in my head) And at one point Daisy-Rae but none of them felt right to me where as all the others felt like they had chosen the names themselves nothing was sticking for this one.

And it wasn’t until I had actually had her that we knew her name and then I think it was more me going she’s Arabella as soon as my lovely midwife asked her name. (Unlike the one later on who asked me her name and I couldn’t remember it for the bloody life of me not at all awkward haha)

But I don’t think she could be anything else now it fit’s her so well and it’s also her favourite thing to say right now. Plus she too has a song with Arctic monkeys Arabella, and I think its quite sweet that it gets shortened too Bella.

And as for the Olive part that is from my mum which felt perfect seeing as Delilah had Ben’s mum’s middle name and it was also my Great-grandmothers name so I like that there’s a lot of family history.

Blossom happened because Delilah had the cutesy name with sweetness we couldn’t leave this little girl out of that party and we went through loads of sweet names but Blossom worked so well because when Delilah was In Oxford’s NICU the ward was in two parts Acorn where Delilah spent so much of her first few months and Blossom. It was the perfect fit to our story again.

I also think that all together the names work really well too and match the two older boys (my Step-sons) who are Joshua and Jacob. And I really like the fact that everyone tends to have their own little take on the names so they have that bit of personality too.

I hope you enjoyed this post and let me know your favourite names in the comments until then,

Thanks for reading.

Love Benita x