A frazzled mum has revealed that she's calling her second son the same name as her first - but she's riddled with concern that they'll both hate it.
The expectant mum holds a deep connection to the name and she loves it so much that she's using it again on her second son.
But before she sets it in stone, the excited mum took to Mumsnet to ask other parents their thoughts on her dilemma - and she received a mixed bag of reactions, to say the least.
Taking to the platform, the indecisive mum penned: "Does it matter if you use a name that you'd already used?
“So, first child is, say, William David James and plan for second boy is James Thomas Peter.
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“Having a discussion with a friend who thinks it's ok as third names aren't used very much and she really wishes she'd used James as a first name the first child.
“Would anyone care and do you think the boys themselves would be bothered when they got older?”
Naturally, her dilemma received quite a mixed reaction with some users claiming the decision is 'lazy', while others agreed that it makes sense.
One Mumsnet user pointed out: "Kate Middleton did it for Louis. Personally, I’d try to find each child their own names, but I don’t think it’s a massive problem."
While another echoed: It’s fine. Family names often get reused in different order."
"Seriously, I know friends who have had this dilemma and used 1st child's middle name as other child's first. I think it's all how you spin it. My suggestion was 'we liked it so much we named you both it' and it can be a link between them. Another friend named her girls all the same middle name for the same reason - to give them a link," someone else shared.
However, there were some parents who were completely against the idea.
"It would feel a bit half-hearted to me. As if they couldn't be bothered spending too much time thinking of a name so just used recycled one of son no. 1's runner-up names," one wrote.
While another complained: "There must be tens of thousands of feasible names, it seems a bit odd that you can't think of a couple that don't involve repeating one of the older sibling's names.”
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