People's opinions are sooooo annoying

I only had that problem when everybody was hoping for a girl. Now that we know it is another boy (that is all we have in our family) nobody really cares.

As far as the rest goes, do what you want. You know your situation and nobody should tell anybody how to raise their baby. I've gone against the "popular opinion" on almost everything and my boys are just fine. They are smart, healthy, and happy.

my first name is alicia :)

but anyways who cares about what people think if they have something bad to say.. i told everyone what we were naming our baby and if anyone had anything bad to say i would have just said "good thing its my baby, too bad u dont like it" but luckily no one had anything bad to say really. we told my aunt we were naming him jaiden alexander and she said "oh i like jaiden michael" i said "yeah well his name is jaiden alexander so too bad"

YESSS!!!!!! I am 17 weeks today and we found out at just after 15 weeks we are having a girl. Now everyone thinks they have free range to name my baby. Then some are giving me their names, others giving me joke names or names that would make her acronym D.U.H! I was upset with that. I am a first time mom and I just found out I am having a precious little girl and people make joke names? It's none of their business. DH and I get to name her. I apprecaited the true suggestions from the heart but everyone has an opinion and they drive me nuts. I smile and thank them politely but good lord, let me and DH have our moment to basque in it, ya know? Oh, and now the belly touching has started. Some people I don't mind like family and close friends but some people I don't know very well it's a little weird. Then when they ask you "Are you going to...?" and you give your answer of how you want to raise your little one, then they tell you their opinion and how it differs as if you are wrong. Not as if it's just their opinion. Thank God it isn't everyone I talk to but the ones that do that certainly do get frustrating.

LOL! I just realized I went off on a little tangent there! Well, hang in there and know you always have us to vent to :)

Opinions are like a--holes everybody has one.  But jsut because you have one doesn't mean you should voice it.  My family ALWAYS has something to say about something my husabnd and I do or don't do involving our kids...we give them too much, we don't let them spend enough time with them, etc...the way I see it..  It's your baby and it's up to you and your DH/SO what you do or name her.

I keep my name choices from most of my family because they also have strong opinions...well mostly just my grandmother. I tell my mom all of the names I think about and she gives me her honest, but nice opinion about them.

Before we knew we were having another boy we had no idea of any boy names. As soon as we found out we started trying to figure out his name. My mom of all people, destroyed ever name we came up with. We decided very quickly that we weren't telling anyone the name we finally decided on. The other thing we decided was (mostly cuz of my FIL) any name that was suggested to us that we weren't already concidering we wouldn't use. Because we didn't want anyone to get a "big head" O I helped name their baby.

With my 1st, I wanted to go as long as I could w/o any pain meds if that was the whole time of not. At my baby shower everyone & there sister told me to take the pain meds with my 1st if I still felt the same with any future kids to go med free then. 

I BF (& will again) I was told many times by many people that I should just quit & FF. Including by the medical staff in the hospital. My son would pull himself off & sleep after 5-10 minutes instead of the 20 "most" babies eat for. The day I was leaving I had the LC come in during a feeding & she told me he was fine & I had nothing to worry about.

every name me and my dh have actually agreed on everyone dont  like so of course they think they can put there 2 cents in it drives me crazy and makes me feel so bad

OMG! Nothing seems to open up public opinion like a pregnancy! Since when did my body become a topic of discussion!?

I know it is annoying, but everyone is very excited for you and that why they ask all sorts of personal questions. I know exactly how you feel! I just smile, keep my answers simple and move on. You are the mother and know what is best!

I'm actually having this problem myself. My mom likes our baby name however no one else does. It's Briana (Bri-ah-na) Nicole. The boy name we had picked out no one likes at all. It is Kale. I also have the people who are all about cloth diapers and breastfeeding and many other issues. It gets old really fast and it is so fraustrating. It's my baby and I will do what I want whether it is breastfed or bottle.

i tell my family the name they know once i have decided thier is nothing they can do. anyway they like the name. my grandma thinks the middle name is a little  "different" but pretty lol. who cares what anyone thinks. before i told them what name we decided on they would suggest names but it did not bother me i understand they are excited too.