I'm having the same problem with my mom. I didn't tell her my first 2 kids names (my sister-in-law DID and my mom HATED both the names she picked for her kids... 5 years later I still hear how the names never "grew on her"!) and now that I am thinking of picking a name "outside the box" I'm terrified that she'll give me that shocked "tone" when I tell her the name. I'm honestly debating warming her up to it before I finalize the name and if she REALLY hates it and I find another name that I love equally, I may switch it. But I wouldn't give my mom pick of 20 names... I'd narrow it to the 2 I loved and if she didn't like either, too bad! Then I pick my "out of the box" name and she lives with it.
YES! I am expecting my second Baby in June and my mother hates the name that I have decided on for a boy (austin). It drives me crazy because i think that it should be my husbands and my own decision. I am the one that will go to pains to give her a grandchild and I think that she should just be happy with that.
I'm due in two weeks and I'm desperately trying to get my mom to like the boys' name we have picked out! She tries to be diplomatic, but I can tell she really wants us to come up with something else. I'm trying to keep the perspective that moms are naturally a little out of touch with what people are naming babies these days (after all, it's been 20-30 years since they named their kids!), so you have to take what they think with a pinch of salt. I wouldn't let her change your mind unless you really trust her taste and judgment. If the names she likes sound awful to you (or just boring), then you probably won't make her happy with anything that you and dh love. Jodi
Nope, not at all. I have to agree with Theresa..once I settle on a name nobody knows it until the baby is born. I got killed with Waverlee that way. My mom hated it and said I was naming her after a cracker! So once I settled on Amberlea I didn't say a word until after she was born and then all my mom said was, "Wow, that really fits her."
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I'm trying to keep the perspective that moms are naturally a little out of touch with what people are naming babies these days (after all, it's been 20-30 years since they named their kids!), so you have to take what they think with a pinch of salt. I wouldn't let her change your mind unless you really trust her taste and judgment. If the names she likes sound awful to you (or just boring), then you probably won't make her happy with anything that you and dh love.
Jodi
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