The responsibility that comes with choosing your baby’s name can be a little intimidating. After all, the child will carry it throughout their life.
But with her firstborn, Reddit user SuccessfulWeb3586 used the opportunity to commemorate her deceased father and named her son after him.
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However, in a post on the subreddit ‘Am I the [Jerk]?’, the woman wrote that her “very opinionated” mother-in-law was really unhappy with this decision, and the two of them quickly got into a heated argument.
This woman named her first child after her deceased father with whom she had a very strong connection
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But her “very opinionated” mother-in-law didn’t like it and started looking for ways she could change the baby’s name
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When it comes to commenting on baby name choices, other moms agree that “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all”
Diana Spalding, who is a certified nurse-midwife, thinks that no saying could apply better when it comes to opinions about someone else’s choice in baby names than “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”
“Whenever I hear someone chime in with their ‘feedback’ about someone else’s baby name, it always makes me cringe inside,” said the co-author of The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama: Redefining the Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Journey.
“It just makes me want to say—to anybody who feels like they just have to weigh in on another person’s name choice: Listen, you’re entitled to your opinion. We all are! You are not going to like everyone’s baby name decisions and that’s okay. But please, keep your opinions about other people’s baby name choices to yourself.”
The reason behind Spalding’s strong emotions is simple: she believes that baby name comments are just unhelpful. According to her, as people cross the threshold into parenthood, they will find a thousand reasons to doubt themselves, and they don’t need to add “picks questionable baby names” to the list.
Indeed, I doubt there is a couple who, immediately after welcoming their child into the world, wants to spend time justifying the name they have chosen for their little bundle of joy.
People said the new mom was completely within her rights to put the lady in her place
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A few people did say that the original poster was being a jerk, but only jokingly
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