Sharing possible baby names with family

MithK

Teacher Mom said:

We told my husband's side of the family about our likely choice. You could tell they were not the biggest fans, but they would never say anything. I would love to tell my siblings, but that would involve my mom knowing and she is a pain in the ass. She would not hesitate to rudely disagree on the name and feel she had a right to share her opinions. She is very high maintenance so I keep telling them we haven't decided yet since we are not 100% anyway

Lol sure sounds like my mum! She gets so upset when people don't go along with her opinions! Which has got me incredibly worried for what'll happen when the LO comes out! She's already made a statement to me saying 'if your MIL and I ever give you differing opinions, don't worry about her, just listen to me!' lol. Even though we haven't really included my mum in our discussions about the name, the one time I mentioned to my aunt that we were going to use my husband's family name as the LO's surname, mum had soooo much to say about it. She kept insisting that we needed to use my husband's first name. Pretty sure it's entirely up to us, but it was so ridiculous how much of a big deal it was to her. And maybe the second time names came up, she kept insisting that we follow this religious numerology before picking LO's name. I'm Hindu and sometimes people do that, where they wait for the baby to be born and the priest gives you certain letters that the LO's name should start with based on the date and time of birth. And it's become less common now as it was before but she's been pushing it with the reasoning 'I did it and you guys turned out fine! So you should do it too!'.....pretty sure I'm gonna be hearing that comment a LOT when LO comes along! Now I've just decided to keep conversations about the pregnancy and the LO on a very surface level to avoid silly comments like those!

MithK

sejica said:

@mithk I wouldn't bet on it! Honestly, that's how we came to call my grandma 'bootsie'. She tried to give ME that name, but it backfired because everyone called her 'the bootsie lady' since she was so persistent. So, instead of the nickname sticking to me, it stuck to her. Feel free to warn your MIL ... or not.

Hahaha love it!! Definitely a story I will be sharing with MIL! Lol can't believe she tried to call you bootsie! 

mrt

Stankonia2014 said:

We shared on FB and with family. I give zero fvcks about the opinion of others and it's been nice to call him by his name instead of 'the baby', makes it seem more real.

Same. 

tuxielove93

**lurking from July** 
We shared our names with the family. They love the girl name, hate the boy name. It hasn't ended up swaying us, but I think it also gives everyone who doesn't like our boy name time to get used to it, so when the baby is here they aren't distracted by hating the name. First grandkid on both sides for us too.