November 2011 Moms
IL's annoying nicknames for LO
DD's name is Colette. MIL has taken to calling her Colettie. It grates on my nerves b/c her name is not conducive to adding an -ie on the end, which is part of why I love her name. Ugh; every time I hear it I cringe inside. MIL also calls her Chubette; but thankfully not in front of me! I didn't know this until SIL told me.
Other SIL has picked up on it too, and has called her Colettie Betty. Really??? Our nickname for her is Coco, but they haven't used it at all. I just want to say, Please stop.
Anyone else's LOs been horribly nicknamed by family already?
Other SIL has picked up on it too, and has called her Colettie Betty. Really??? Our nickname for her is Coco, but they haven't used it at all. I just want to say, Please stop.
Anyone else's LOs been horribly nicknamed by family already?
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Re: IL's annoying nicknames for LO
omgosh so glad you posted this!! :P
Its not my in law, its my own father! My dad keeps calling William "billy bob" and I want to kill him for it!!! Every time he does it, I say "dad, I HATE THAT stop calling him that please." But he still does it and chuckles like its some big joke. AHHK! I actually didn't want to use an nickname at all (yet) but I gave him two other alternatives just so that he wouldn't keep saying billy bob. That didn't work
Coco is the cutest nickname ever. They are crazy for not using it! You should have DH say something to them!
Thanks! I should have DH say something. Hoping he will, otherwise I might get snippy and explode at some point... I expressed my disgust after SIL's bday dinner Sun night, when I actually heard "Colettie Betty" used. He knows, he doesn't like the names either.
I just really loathe adding -ie onto names; it sounds wussy!
I knew a girl who was called Cricket as a baby...it stuck and that is now what everyone in her adult life knows her as. I think it's cute.
It's not a nickname, but MIL always asks LO if he wants a "hot juicy bot-tee" when it's time to give him a bottle. For some reason this imagery just grosses me out. We don't even warm his bottles
My Grandma wanted to call DD Lexi (Alexis is her MN) but I told that she was calling her Selene, end of story. My Brother also calls her Sappy sincer he initials are SAP, but that one doesn't bother me as much because he just calls her that on the phone to me, never to her face.
I just call her Shorty.
DS is named Clayton, but I'm not crazy about the nn Clay. I know its kind of a natural nn and if DS himself someday likes it that's fine. But now it really bugs me when other people call him that. Especially when you TELL them Clayton and they say "hi Clay", ugh....
Otherwise my Mom calls him Little Chaddie (DH is names Chad) - I don't mind that. I don't really have a nn for him yet, but I'm sure I will as he gets older.
Yeah, I think that imagery would gross me out too! But then again, DH will say DD is "looking for tittie" sometimes when she's acting hungry, and asks me if I'm ready to whip one out. He's a comedian!
My baby was born with a blocked and infected tear duct, that we think caused her a lot of pain because she was a MUCH happier baby as soon as it all cleared up. Well, she was sort of difficult to care for and cried a lot, so my ILs called her "The Judge" because they said she was always deciding whether or not what you were doing was acceptable.
I mean, c'mon! It's a baby in pain constantly, I think we can cut her some slack!
That would drive me nuts!
My mom calls my LO her little angel and her baby too. I thought I was the only one that found that weird.
Ewww that IS gross! My MIL called the paci a "dingy" - that was pretty gross too.
Griffin has become "Griff" and "Griff Griff"
We respond back using him name correctly....Griffin
This would bother me too, sounds like a pokemon. My MIL calls Arianna Peanut which is cute. SIL calls her lizard because she is always sticking her tongue out. Not sure how I feel about that one. I call her Ari and baby girl and little miss. DH calls her Poot. Everyone says something different. I HATE when my mom says " my baby" No, she mine!
Oh. My. Goodness.
My Mom was calling LO "Squirt" for the longest time. It made me upset because he was pre-term and was pretty small (5 lbs 12 oz). I didn't feel like she needed to point it out even more. My Dad said something to her about it and now she calls him "Punkin." Which is still annoying, but not as bad as "Squirt."
My parents also refer to him as "our baby" or "our boy." I have tried multiple times to jokingly say, "He's OUR baby." but they just respond with, "He can be Grandma/Grandad's boy right NOW." My thoughts? You weren't there when he was made or born, he doesn't belong to you.
DH calls him "Buddy" and I call him "Lovebug" every once in a while. I also call him "Landry Love."
People (including me) have all kinds of nicknames for DD but they don't bother me. If they keep it up when she is older it would probably bug me but for a baby almost any nickname sounds cute.
The only thing that bothers me is when FI's grandma makes a big deal about being the great-grandma but that only bothers me because my grandma who was my favorite person in the world passed away a week before I got my BFP.
My IL's joked about calling LO Josaphat (his feast day was Nov. 12) if he came on that day or close to it. That was never going to happen-LO's name is Elijah and his nn is Eli. I thought that since he was born that they had stopped...but apparently not. To the point where FIL had to ask MIL what his name was! At least they don't do it in front of me.
Also, LO's initials are ET so that was a nn for a while and I actually didn't mind it but I think the rest of the family stopped the one or two people who were calling him that.
And EVERYBODY calls LO 'their' baby. My IL's, my actual family-even my sister. I think the only person who doesn't is my dad. Like pp poster said, I've jokingly mentioned that if they weren't there for the conception or for the delivery then he's not their baby...but it hasn't made any difference. It annoys me so much but I put up with it (for now) because I know it just means that they're excited.