Comments on: Carnie Wilson Welcomes Daughter Luciana Bella

By: Lola

Lola — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:55:06 +0000

I love the name!! And I also loved that Ms. Wilson gave so much information from the beginning! I hate it when people say “oh we’re saving the name/sex as a surprise”. Of course it’s their choice, but I LOVE when we hear all the info as the pregnancy progresses. You feel as though you can’t wait to see this person you’ve been hearing everything about. Congrats to the new family!! Best wishes.

By: Merrymum

Merrymum — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:26:48 +0000

Footnote: mUm sounds so much nicer than mOm!

By: Merrymum

Merrymum — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:23:44 +0000

Sam and Freya’s mum; we have drifted way off the post topic here!! NZ is a beautiful country, both my parents are kiwi’s, mum from Devonport, Dad from Levin, but I have family all over – MT Maunganui, Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch. I love visiting, so beautiful, Hubby and I went there for honeymoon. Hobart is 90km from Port Arthur, was 1996 when the massacre happened there, so terrible but lovely memorial. Everyone thinks we named our Emerson after Teri Hatcher’s daughter, but actually I heard the name before that when I used to work in an art gallery and a regular client came in with her newborn boy/girl twins and told me their names were Finnigan and Emerson, I thought was so pretty. When our daughter was born, we had ruled out all the Irish girls names (hubby is Irish) for the reasons stated previously, so I mentioned Emerson and he loved it! We threw Bridget in as middle name to give a wee bit of Irish flavour! She is 3 now and I’ve only come across one other Emerson (they go to childcare together), so I hope the schools are not flooded with Emerson’s in a few years!! Hope it’s not to cold for you over in Wellington, it’s freezing here!

By: Sam & Freya's Mum

Sam & Freya's Mum — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:14:54 +0000

Merrymum: another Antipodean (Kiwi/Aussie)!, with the spelling of ‘mUm’ in your post name, not ‘mOm’, the American/Canadian spelling! I haven’t been to Tasmania (have been to the usual places of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, popular here to visit I guess, and would like to make it to Perth and Tasmania in general one day) but hubby went there with his family years ago. Is it near Port Arthur? (I remember the tragic events there about 10 years or so ago now I guess?, not a nice memory, but do remember it being in Tasmania, that’s all, not that should taint somewhere long term either). What a pretty name, Emerson. No, I don’t really know who Donna Air is either or if she is still on telly in UK, just read about her in the Uk mag & her baby girl’s name, not sure why I remember her/presenter’s name tho’, but both her and baby Freya’s names stuck for some reason>>?!! We live in Wellington, NZ capital, near the habour.

By: Merrymum

Merrymum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:03:20 +0000

Hi Sam and Freya’s mum, I couldn’t remember that vets name, I used to watch the show on ABC at least 5 years ago, now you say Trude I totally remember, don’t know who Donna Air is though?? We are in the lovely city of Hobart, and as for my daughter, she ended up ‘Emerson Bridget’. It suits her very much but we call her Emmy most of the time.

By: Sam & Freya's Mum

Sam & Freya's Mum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:06:11 +0000

Merrymum: forgot to ask, if you don’t mind, what your daughter’s name is?

By: Sam & Freya's Mum

Sam & Freya's Mum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:03:13 +0000

Thanks Merrymum, a fellow Downunder poster! Didn’t realise she had 3 kids, it says her oldest daughter’s a Freya as you say, lady’s called Trude Mostue, the Norwegian vet who was on UK vet programme, name Trude rang a bell for some reaason as used to watch it years ago, so Googled her. Last I read in one of those mags she was engaged or married (but says they’re sadly split), before she had her Freya. I was actually thinking of another UK presenter that we named our daughter after, called Donna Air, I actually had never heard of this person though & not sure what she was on tv wise, just liked her little girl’s name when I read it about 5 years ago. Googled her and she does have a daughter Freya as I had thought. Think it must be more popular being UK/Europe, & close to Scandinavia in particular & since it’s a Scandi name, makes a lot of sense. Over here generally more traditional British names are popular/common – emily, thomas, oliver, sophies etc, with NZ being part of Commonwealth so Scandinavian/european names not as used/popular here (at least there won’t be 4 or 5 in her class, but who knows in 4 years time, lol). But thanks for mentioning the tv vet, as wouldn’t have known otherwise & I’m nosey! Whereabouts in OZ are you based?

By: Merrymum

Merrymum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:21:10 +0000

Sam and Freya’s mum, I remember that OK/HELLO issue!! I seem to recall the norwegian mother of Freya in question was on a show about vets, her partner was a very big burly guy and their daughter had red curly hair and freckles!! I thought at the time Freya was a beautiful name also. Neve/Niamh also gorgeous but if you spell it the gaelic way nobody can pronounce it right!!! I have heard them try, they say ‘Neem’. I personally love the name Roisin (irish name pronounced ‘Ro – Sharn’, but I live in Australia and just knew everybody would call my daughter ‘Roysen’ as in Raisin with an O!!!!

By: Sarah M.

Sarah M. — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:31:34 +0000

Sam and Freya’s mum – Thanks for the info. I gotta admit, when I first say her name, I didn’t really like it. But have grown to love it! I love the meaning of it, too.

As to Carnie and her family, does anyone remember/know how big Lola was when she was born? Was she on the smaller side, also?

By: Sam & Freya's Mum

Sam & Freya's Mum — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:36:13 +0000

sorry, Sarah ‘M’, not ‘J’! Also, not sure why, the sound of it I guess, but I generally prefer girls’ names ending in an ‘a’ too – my friend has a Kayla and Olivia and said the same, obvously also a fan.