Talk:Esme Cullen/@comment-7600752-20130815011027/@comment-67.84.67.11-20131226040917

I'm not entirely sure that this is the reason, but in the old days they used to wait for the baby to make it past a certain point to name it - so that the parents wouldn't grow too attached if it didn't survive very long. Children back in those days had a much higher mortality rate, and the superstition about tempting fate might have stuck around well into the early 20th century. Then again, it's entirely possible the change stripped her of her memory of the baby's name or it's just too painful for her to say. We'll never know, but no name is ever explicitly mentioned.