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What are the worst names you could give a baby boy?
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I once knew someone who refused to tell anyone the name they chose before the baby was born (absolutely valid choice, IMO). The grandpa-to-be chose to exclusively refer to the fetus as Beelzebub.
That is normal around where I live, because you never know if it will be ~~alice~~ alive after birth. So I mostly see the name in the birth-card my friends usually send
Alice Afterbirth is a great name for the placenta
Also a good name for an indie prog metal band
Where are you from? Chernobyl?
Switzerland, why?
I know the risk exists here as well, but "you never know" sounds like something someone from rural Africa would say, not Switzerland.
Maybe its an old tradition. But I was shocked by how deadly being pregnant and giving birth (to the mother and the child even moreso) is, still to this day. I thought we solved childbirth or something.
Yeah, the female physique hasn't really adapted to our enormous head size. We solved child mortality more or less, but pregnancy and birth is still quite dangerous.