Why a Nice Jewish Girl Named Her Daughter Christine
July 31, 2005
By Guest Author: Gail Smith Wright (Ramsey's mother-in-law)
This really is a two-part question: why did I name my daughter Christine, and why was I open to doing so, being a nice Jewish girl. I’ll start with the why-she-got-the-name first.
I had had three pregnancies by the time I became pregnant with Christine: one had ended in the birth of my son, Christine’s older brother, and two had ended in miscarriage. Christine’s older brother had to have a complete blood transfusion at birth due to a blood incompatibility problem: my type O blood was causing antigens to form against his type A blood. Because my husband had type A blood, and type A is always dominant over type O, any child we had would have type A blood. This was most likely the reason for my two previous miscarriages, according to a hematologist we later consulted.
