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		<title>Initial Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When naming your baby, how much thought do you give to their future initials? Most people would probably answer, ‘not very much’ but is it important to make sure you don’t accidently give your child initials which could get them teased? For example, Albert Stephen Smith could spell out trouble for your little one when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surname Woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can’t all be blessed with beautiful sounding surnames, so how important is it to get your baby’s first name to sound ‘right’ with it? You might have had a perfect name in your head since you were a child yourself, but now you’ve married someone with a surname that really doesn’t go with that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/surname-woes/</link>
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		<title>Feeling Blue?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Beyoncé announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards, speculation has been ripe over what name she will choose for her baby. The star gave birth on Saturday 9th January in Roosevelt hospital by C section and announced the baby’s name as Blue Ivy Carter. This mix of traditional and modern is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping It In The Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you use as inspiration for your baby name? A favourite character in a book or film? An influential person from history, perhaps? I have to wonder whether family names come into the deciding process more than we realise. When you ask people about the names in their family, you can almost be sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/keeping-it-in-the-family/</link>
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		<title>Unusual Celebrity Baby Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know about the trend in celebrity baby names that has been taking the world by storm, and is continuing as not only celebrities, but also the general public are choosing even more unique names by the day.  Lets not forget when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin named their child Apple, or the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/unusual-celebrity-baby-names/</link>
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		<title>Your Christmas Baby Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it’s that time of the years again, it doesn’t seem like yesterday that Christmas 2010 was just around the corner!  For those of you who are pregnant, or just about to give birth during December you might be stuck for names!  If that is the case then perhaps you might want some ideas, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/your-christmas-baby-names/</link>
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		<title>Your Own Twilight Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we’ve been hearing about the various trends in baby names, and how some people are affected by celebrity trends and believe this is the way that baby names will continue to develop, whilst others believe that classic names will come back.  This is especially true after Hugh Grant recently named his little girl Jessica.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/your-own-twilight-baby/</link>
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		<title>Hugh&#8217;s Baby Girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a brief fling with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong, Hugh Grant is now the proud father of a baby girl.  The fling was so brief that her neighbours had no idea that she was even pregnant, let alone with Grant’s daughter.  Obviously the next most important step is the baby name, and Grant and Hong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/hughs-baby-girl/</link>
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		<title>Royal Baby Name Influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it may be a few months since we were celebrating the wedding of the newest royal couple William and Kate, but that does not mean the influence that they had over the country has not been felt in other ways!  I suppose it was inevitable that after all of the fuss made during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/royal-baby-name-influence/</link>
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		<title>Love Books, Love Your Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a lot of changes in the way we name our children over the past few years.  Recently we’ve discussed the trends in baby names and how some people have begun to regret the choices they made!  Many of the trends have followed the celebrity movement in calling their babies names like Apple, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.babynames.co.uk/blog/love-books-love-your-baby/</link>
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