I called all 3 of my kids the same first name – I’m asked if I ran out of ideas, I just really like it
FALLING pregnant, Donna-Marie Parry and husband Mitchell both decided she would choose the name should their newborn be a girl and he would if it were a boy.
But that’s where a dilemma arose. “I loved the name Avery and really wanted it,” specialist tutor Donna-Marie, 35, from Cwmbran, south Wales, said.
“But Mitchell didn’t like that - he thought it sounded like Aviary and associated it with birds.”
So she opted for Ava-Marie - because it sounded similar and also included her first name.
“He liked it and decided, should we have a boy, he would be called Carter John as his middle name is John.
“I loved that Marie was my middle name.
“It felt like if we had a girl she would have a special connection with me even as she grew.”
And when the couple’s baby girl arrived at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Cardiff, south Wales, on December 27, 2015, weighing 7lb 4oz they were happy with their name choice.
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“Some people queried why she had the same first name as me but I didn’t care,” her mum said.
Then, three years later, she fell pregnant with twins - and also gave them the hyphenated name Marie.
This time each couple chose a first name, knowing it would be their final pregnancy.
“I chose Isla and Mitchell chose Florence - we wanted to give them the same hyphenated name as their big sister - Marie, like me,” she said.
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Isla-Marie and Florence-Marie arrived weighing 6lb 10oz and 6lb 8oz at Gwent Hospital in Cwmbran.
“I’m really pleased I gave them the same name as us all,” she said. “I didn’t want them to grow up and think I cared more about their big sister than them when I love them all exactly the same.
“Having the same name connects us all.”
But she said some people had been somewhat confused by all three of them having the same hyphenated first name (and it being the same as her one).
“The playgroup didn’t initially realise it was their first name and hyphenated,” she said. “And the doctors’ joked ‘have you run out of ideas.
“But I’ve heard it’s common in Latin America to do this.
“I’m really proud and pleased we’ve started this tradition in the family.”
There’s no way delivery driver Mitchell, 31, is going to get his own name now.
"We’re not having another baby,” said Donna-Marie.
“But we have got a dog - and he is called John.
“So at least Mitchell has something named after him.”
In other news, a mum revealed she regrets her baby's name and wants to change it, but says no one else agrees with her.
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