Naming our child

I'm not sure everyone knows the story about how we came up with Garrison's name, so I thought I'd share. Well first of all, I'm totally a "planner" so I started looking in the baby name book and online from the beginning of the pregnancy. Bryan, on the other hand, was a lot more relaxed about it. We would toss names around every once in while, but I had a whole spiral notebook full of options. We both really liked the name Jackson, but it was getting so popular and we really didn't want anything in the "top 10" most popular category. We also liked Tyler, but wasn't completely sold. We knew somewhere in the name we'd use Bennett because that is Bryan's middle name and his late grandfather's middle name. We thought about using that as a first name but again, we couldn't decide.

And we couldn't decide.

And finally it's the week that my C-section is scheduled AND WE STILL DIDN'T have a name picked out!! I was getting STRESSED. So 2 or 3 nights before the surgery we were sitting on the couch watching TV and I was on babynamegenie.com (or something like that) and I was just throwing names out to Bryan and Garrison was one that I said. We both liked it but moved on to look at other names.

So the night before the C-section Bryan said that he had made his decision...Garrison. Well at the time I was in pretty painful labor (yes, I went into the labor on my own the day before the surgery...crazy!) and couldn't think, much less make a life long decision like naming our child. So still no final name for the child that was going to be born in less than 12 hours!! Let me tell you...I NEVER thought I'd be in this position! I thought I'd have the name picked out months in advance. I guess Bryan and I both were afraid to committ...it's a really big decision, ya know?!

Well 9:30 am the next day our son was born...with no name. Once I got into recovery and I'm holding my sweet boy I'm like "Okay, we gotta name this kid." And Bryan said "I already told you my pick...what's yours?" And at that moment I just knew that this little baby's name was Garrison Bennett. And maybe it was also the fact that I had just gone through 18 hours of labor, surgery, and hadn't come up with anything else on my own. No but really, I love his name and it's just perfect for him.