Desi Arnaz Secretly Named His and Lucy's First Child While She Was Sleeping

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Unbeknownst to Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz went ahead and named the couple's first child shortly after birth

In a new book, biographer Todd S. Purdum writes that Lucy had long wanted to name her firstborn child "Susan" if the baby was a girl

When she woke up following a caesarean section, she was surprised, but not upset, to find that her husband had named the child after her instead

When Lucille Ball gave birth to her first child with husband Desi Arnaz , it was dad who named the baby — and Ball didn't even know the name until it was already on the birth certificate.

In his new book Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television , biographer Todd S. Purdum writes that Ball had picked out two names for the couple's future children by 1943 — writing letters to her husban