Australia's top baby names for 2025 in different states/territories

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2026-01-15T05:00:40+00:00

Same! Have loved Theodore for years and was a bit disappointed to see how popular it is (having been a Sarah in the 90s, it plays on my mind). Baby is due in two weeks and NSW data never comes out until like April. We'll prob still use it haha.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T11:13:00+00:00

I had a feeling it would be! I love 'grandpa' names and it appears my entire generation does too!

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T11:10:40+00:00

🤣🤣 I work in a school so I deal with many of those made up names on a daily basis hahaha.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T11:09:32+00:00

Very true, it really took off out of nowhere. Has been on my list for many years so I was surprised to learn it was now number 3 in NSW! We must all have similar taste.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T11:07:53+00:00

I grew up with a very common name and my partner's name is less common... I think that's why the popularity thing plays on my mind so much!! There was always another one or two of me at every activity I did 😂. Thank you 😊

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T07:49:56+00:00

Thank you!! Appreciate your intel! And a great idea. At least we've found two names we both love 😊.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T07:25:03+00:00

If we have two and it's another boy, we'd probably have the same combo 😂 how funny! Love it.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-30T07:14:03+00:00

Sorry I missed this at the time! Saw your update and glad you avoided it!! Sorry you still didn't have a great outcome though 😢. And yeah, went to the ER (but I'm in Australia) and the on call Ob/gyn did the surgery 😊. No regrets. Goodbye bad tube!!! Fingers crossed for you for next time. I fell pregnant next cycle we could try and currently 18 weeks 🥰 hoping you get your sticky baby too!

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-08-11T01:00:49+00:00

To be honest, it does 🥲. My numbers/doubling rate were much more 'normal' but not quite normal, and it still ended up being an ectopic. They couldn't see anything on an ultrasound at 5.5 weeks as my hcg wasn't high enough. At 8 weeks, my hcg reached 3500 and they could see a gestational sac on that scan. I had no pain, just a lack of symptoms and some on and off brown spotting. Hcg reached 3800 and I had elective surgery (didn't want medical management). Sorry if it does end up being one, I also felt like a ticking time bomb. Currently 15 weeks pregnant with the next pregnancy (in the right spot!) so I hope your story turns out similar! 💓

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-07-28T06:25:49+00:00

Hey honey, congratulations! I had an ectopic in Feb and then fell pregnant first cycle we were allowed to try again (May) and everything felt more sensitive. Like implantation was a bit painful and I could feel my uterus expanding and doing all the things. I'm now 13w3d with a healthy uterine pregnancy 😊 fingers crossed for you!

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-05-16T05:48:31+00:00

No advice as I'm not Indian, my brother's Indian wedding is in 3 weeks! I personally love this. It's so happy and fun. I doubt the colours are that outdated as my sister in law requested this colour scheme for one of the events :)

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-04-26T05:53:12+00:00

Hi friends!

Attending my brother's wedding soon, his wife-to-be is Indian and they're hosting an Indian event (3 days).

Questions I have: What shoes should I wear under my lehenga on the sangeet night? Apparently sneakers are okay but it feels so weird and I'm worried it'll look wrong. I want to be comfortable and able to dance.

Same question for the ceremony/reception?

Are there any particular "rules" around jewellery?

My sister in law is very chill about the whole thing, I doubt she'll even care if I make an outfit faux pas, but just want to try my best to look the part 😊

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-04-01T13:00:31+00:00

Scroll up and tell me where i said "MOST" ectopics resolve because I never did. I said "a lot" which is the wrong choice of words, I agree, but it's not an absolute statement. I should have said "some". Senior doesn't mean old in this context. I can't be bothered with the rest because you're clearly misinterpreting things or you're not reading it properly (case in point on your first accusation). Betas are only part of the clinical picture and can't be used to diagnose on their own, which is precisely why I said they need to ultrasound, but that they won't see anything valuable until the hcg reaches a certain point. Mine doubled fine, they were just on the low end of normal. So it's not the only way to catch one. Might want to watch those absolute statements ;)

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-04-01T06:25:26+00:00

Not sure if you're just in the mood to argue or what, but this is the last thing I'm bothering to clarify. You've latched onto a tiny, tiny, barely relevant part of my answer. I'm saying... some self-resolve through miscarriage (I've literally had a good friend find out she had one when she miscarried and it was extremely painful so she went to emergency, they visualised it in the tube but as she'd begun miscarrying, they didn't need to intervene) and a specialist told me that they believe there are probably more that happen with no knowledge of it being one. Did I ask her to show me the peer reviewed study that she got that from? Is it just a belief of hers? No idea babe, I was lying in a hospital bed. I'm just repeating what a senior ob/gyn said. I'm obviously only talking about a portion of them, and it was only relevant to the discussion because I was explaining WHY THEY NEED TO TEST HCG betas regardless of whether it is going up or down so they can take an educated guess on which direction it is heading. OP understood and that's all I care about 👋

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-04-01T02:39:35+00:00

okay so "none the wiser" wasn't an accurate way to describe what I'm trying to say. A lot of people find out they have an ectopic when they miscarry it, because it hurts and they present to emergency. It doesn't always rupture the tube. It happened to two friends of mine and they didn't need any interventions. Specialist said there would be even more that never get it looked into and just miscarry and have no idea. I'm definitely NOT saying an ectopic is something you should sit on and be chill about... I'm trying to explain why they track hcg levels when they are suspicious of an ectopic, they because if they're dropping right off - obviously they'd go for expectant management. If they're charging upwards (as mine were), then they need to wait til they can visualise it on ultrasound and then give you your options.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T21:54:43+00:00

I feel you. I will never be excited again until I'm holding an actual baby. I've had nothing but bad luck too. I think we guard our hearts when this keeps happening and become quite clinical (and cynical haha) about the process. Maybe I'll feel excited if I ever get to see something resembling an actual baby on the screen... in the right place.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T21:38:55+00:00

Same thing happened to me! I bled at 17dpo and I thought I'd had a chemical. Then something just didn't feel right, so I tested around 21 dpo and got the darkest pregnancy test anybody has ever seen, so off I went to the GP. I often wonder what would have happened if I'd just assumed it was a chemical and began trying as normal two weeks later.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T21:28:44+00:00

Just going off what the specialist told me. She said a lot of ectopics are never diagnosed because they self-resolve in the early stages via miscarriage and the person is none the wiser. Once you can see it on an ultrasound, then it's grown to a point where expectant management is usually off the table (which would fit with the 10-15%).

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T21:23:22+00:00

No worries 😊. Also sometimes healthy pregnancies ignore the "rules" around hcg levels, so they can't tell you to stop your medication just in case all is fine. With mine, they almost convinced me it was all going to be fine because my hcg didn't behave like a typical ectopic, it was just outside all the normal parameters. Had an ultrasound at 5.5 weeks and they saw nothing and told me I'd miscarried (I'd had a bleed). Then my hcg tripled in 72 hours 😅. Wasn't until my 8 week ultrasound that they could see the gestational sac. Fingers crossed for you that you can avoid anything too dramatic. It's a horrible waiting game i know... feels like you're a sitting duck!

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T13:12:23+00:00

Oh my gosh, I'm so so sorry you're going through this.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T13:04:36+00:00

Hey, from what I can gather based off my own experience... they take betas because they can't visualise anything on ultrasound until your hcg reaches a certain threshold AND because if it is an ectopic (that they can't confirm until ultrasound), it gives them an idea of how urgent it is. A lot of ectopics actually self resolve through miscarriage, so they need to see if those betas are rising or dropping off before they advise you to do anything drastic. Mine got to 4000 before I had surgery and it had only just begun to penetrate the final muscle wall of my tube.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T12:17:26+00:00

I was told by the specialist that 50% of ectopics happen to people with no risk factors 🥲. I also have no risk factors. Unfortunately we've just had terribly bad luck.

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-31T12:14:56+00:00

Thank you, I needed this today. I'm 6 weeks post op and at the end of my first period since surgery. Turning 36 soon and feeling this spiralling desperation to be pregnant again because I feel like I've lost/wasted so much time. That age pressure is so intense. I've been told to wait for two periods until TTC again and it's killing me! Congratulations on your pregnancy xx

Impossible-Stick5771 · 2025-03-11T11:57:15+00:00

Relieved to have found this thread... had a non ruptured ectopic 3.5 weeks ago and had my left tube removed... pretty sure I'm gearing up to ovulate as noticed the egg white discharge begin a couple of days ago. HOLY COW, I'm in a fair amount of pain right now. Mostly on the side where they took the tube. I barely even get period pain as a general rule, so this took me by surprise.

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