Name Choice Explained By New Dad Ingo Rademacher

CBB readers had a strong reaction to the decision by Ingo Rademacher and his fiancée, Ehiku, to name their 10-day-old son Peanut Kai, and now Ingo has offered some insight into the couple's thought process.

The name Peanut "puts a smile on everyone's face" and "kind of represented joy and happiness to us," the 37-year-old General Hospital actor says. "We were calling him that when he was in mommy." Meanwhile, Kai -- which means 'water' in Hawaiian -- pays homage to Ehiku's Hawaiian roots, and is also a possible nod to Ingo's longtime love of surfing. Ingo reveals to People.com that he assisted in delivering Peanut at home in Malibu with the assistance of a midwife. He says,

We were set on home birth right away. A hospital was not a place we wanted to be.

Peanut is the first couple for the child, who plan to marry in Hawaii next year.

Source: People.com; Photo by John Sciulli/WireImage.com.