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My son was born in England - long story! - and I came back to South Africa with him when he was 3 weeks old. We had to get travel documents, ticket etc arranged before the birth, when gender was unknown let alone names, and though he was able to travel on his very own passport, speedily issued complete with names and unrecognisable photo, his plane ticket was made out to INF (Surname), as if they were his initials, though it was short for Infant. They left the Gender block blank! And I amused myself during the long night hours trying to design names for him: Ignatius Norman Ferdinand seemed suitably horrible if I remember.