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Why aren't babies born with name tags? 

Pregnancy comes with its' many challenges. Pre-delivery it is the bodily stress and the mental trauma (not trauma really,  that might be bit of an exaggeration but strain nonetheless). Post-delivery, it's the persistent exhaustion that takes a toll.  However the baby offers you an extreme solace and you battle every hurdle that is thrown your way barring one. 
What to name your baby? 
You would think that nine odd months are enough to come up with a sweet meaningful name.  But no!  I spent the nine months doing everything else and the little time (literally 15mins) , I did generously donate to the "name thinking" , I came up with a girls' name and concluded that there are no nice names for boys and hoped I'd have a girl.  (Had I had a girl,  she would've been called Inara) So,  when the doctor said,  "it's a boy" , my first thought was,  "oh!  I thought it would be a girl" and second was,  "I don't have a name for a boy!". The rest of the journey to lookout for that perfect name was bit of a rollercoaster.  A whirlpool of names was thrown at me,  yet nothing seemed to be IT. 

The first name I really liked was Ahaan because naming him anything beginning "A" would make his initials A S S (Ahaan Singh Sangha) . I love my kid and no matter how much I love the name Ahaan,  I can't do that to my baby.  The letter "A" was completely out of the picture.  About that,  once you rule out an alphabet , the only names you do like ALL begin from that same letter, Abeer, Ayaan,  Aryan.  Huh!

Next option was seeking the help of an alphabet chosen by a priest.  The choice that got given to me was "Bh" and hey!  unless you want to name your kid Bhushan,  Bhoodev,  Bhipinder or Bhanu, "Bh" was unacceptable to me.  The alternative to that was "H". I was born into a Hindu family and married into a Sikh family, so, I needed a religion neutral name and none of the names beginning H resonated with me.  None seemed to say "my son's name is this"

The search carried on.  I spent whatever time,  I possibly could looking out for names and eureka!  I found Shehzad and Sheraz. Sheraz was dumped because it sounded girly (I still don't know how)  to my husband and Shehzad,  because a pundit told my MIL that the letter "S" is inauspicious for the baby.  Phew!  Hey there were still 22 letters left to chose from! One of the masses suggested Mehrab and that was ALMOST final when my dad showed disapproval for the name.  We then turned to the name Zoraan but my FIL said it was too complicated and most of the people would mispronounce it. 

That meant 21 days since he was born and he was still without a name. At this point, I was prepared to call him, Bahubali or toothless. My husband was calling him froggie (because he was still in his fetal position). His Nani called him, "tunni (which she still does)  and for his Nana, a mere "aye" was enough to call him out. Everyone of us chose our own name for him. 

Three days later my hubby came up with a name, that could be "The one". Both me and my husband are very naughty and when we were pregnant,  our friends used to tease us that our kid would be a drama queen , king since its a boy.  And not leaving the drama out of his name. 25 days and 9 months later,  we FINALLY named him "Uday Pratap Singh Sangha".
PS: it's still not official as we will get his birth certificate on Tuesday but we aren't changing it now.
  Even he looked distressed when we couldn't come up with a name for him,  refer : photograph
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Fameeda Unnisa

<span style="color:#3B5998;"><b> @6372c1453f31520016a69ec3 </b></span><br> meanin of mifzal is great and blessed person &#128516;&#128516;

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Sumira Bhatia

<a href="http://app.babychakra.com/user/106500"><b><font color ="#3b5998">Fameeda</font></b></a><a href="http://app.babychakra.com/user/106500"><b><font color ="#3b5998"> </font></b></a><a href="http://app.babychakra.com/user/106500"><b><font color ="#3b5998">Unnisa</font></b></a> wow that is a lovely name (truly unique)&#160; what does it mean?&#160; and such a lovely story :)

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Fameeda Unnisa

wow&#160; all hav beautiful journey in naming der kids... #lovely loved it &#128077; appreciation for d poster <span style="color:#3B5998;"><b> @6372c1453f31520016a69ec3 </b></span> fo posting such a gud ques who bot all moms memories... nt gona stop my story . &#128513;&#128513;&#128513; <br> so so so hea i go &#128518;<br> i had wonderful pregnancy days... <br> i atrted thinkin of findin name fo my baby in my 7th month of pregnancy... i alwys wanted unique names... 1 f9 day i dreamed sumthng nxt mrng i gt up al of d sudn i told mezaan wud b gud name if v had boy... i fond meanin of it bt unfortunately it did nt had gud meaning &#128578; den i was searchin til d end. i did nt find unique name in whole google &#129315;&#129315;&#129315;&#129315; i was knwin it dat ill hav baby boy.. so never interestd to find gal name.. coz al wer expected i wil hav boy.. n i rely had boy.. aftr 3 days of delivery my fathr in law asked one of d big alim(1 who suggest names wit birth&nbsp; time n day of baby) gt 6 names. al liked fahad bt i liked MOHAMMED MIFZAL... i told my hub it wil b mifzal. i don wan to chnge.. den my hub also liked it . v finalised our boy wit MOHAMMED MIFZAL . n yeahhh its rely unique name fo nw &#128512;&#128512;&#128513;&#128513;

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Meghna Tailor

That's great &amp; lovely story all of you. It's really when we think about baby name its very interesting with busy work searching all family name dudhne me lagh jate hai... Jab name mil jata tab jaak shanti hoti hai. Its takes time because it's life attached with name with whole life. Whenever when we thought for name it's should be meaningful, easy to speak or call out, no one take advantage for majak name. Not but least its should be choose by mummy pappa wishes name because more call out name by parents only so should be choice &amp; preference given to mummy &amp; pappa. Thank you.

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Sumira Bhatia

<font color ="#3b5998"><b> @616d5cf35988200013dc4617 </b></font><font color ="#3b5998"><b></b></font> those are beautiful names.

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