Baby's Name

Even before I got pregnant, hubby and I have been talking about what names to give our future children. The names and nicknames have evolved over time. We would fondly call our future kids as Bochog and Dudai. We would even imagine how they would look like and what their personalities would be. Now that I’m finally pregnant and we finally know the gender of our baby, we had to finalize what name to give her. Here are our initial conditions 1. We want 2 names, one has to start with a letter J since both of us have J’s in our name. The other one should start with a letter D (since we’ve been calling our (then) imaginary baby girl as Dudai) 2. We want a unique name, unique enough to avoid getting hit during NBI clearances (hehe). Anyway, we’ve been looking at baby books and googling baby names. Finally, here’s what we have decided to name her: It’s pronounced as Dag-nee Ja-ney. I know most people have a hard time pronouncing it the first time they see it. It’s a unique name indeed and we’ve grown fond of her name. Meaning: Dagny = New day (sakto, based sa 1st ultrasound, jan 1 ang due date nya… it was also inspired by one of the characters in one of my favorite books, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand) Janae = God has answered/ God is gracious / God’s grace People would often ask what her nickname would be and would often deduce it to be DJ. Well, we’ll just call her baby dagny and let her decide when she grows up how she wants to be called (specially when she reaches her teenage years). Side note: the felt letter pillows and felt flowers were some of my DIY stuff for my birthday/baby shower :)