In-laws are starting to make us question our name choice...
I'm due next week and we have been being really indecisive about the name!
Here's the story: Before we found out the gender we had about two pages of girls names that we liked and only about five boys names we were sort of into... and it's a boy! haha.
Oliver was our top choice in the beginning, but we we're iffy about it once we realized how crazy popular it is right now. We didn't want him to have to be like one of five Olivers in his class once he starts school.
Our next choice was Edwin. At first we were iffy about it bc we are not crazy about the nickname Eddie, but we decided we could call him Winn instead. It also started to grow on us more when we remembered it was my husband's great-grandfather's name. For the last few months we have been going back and forth on middle names, but have been pretty set on Edwin.
Of course now my in-laws will not stop referring to him as Eddie!! They insist that they're just teasing us, but they also don't seem to like the nickname Winn and keep saying so what are we going to call him?? We're like just call him Edwin. 🙄
They're not being mean or stubborn about it, it's just annoying and feels like they're not taking us seriously. I'm sure if we had a serious conversation with them and told them it was bothering us they would understand, but also idk how many people his dad has been telling that the baby's name is Eddie, especially because in the beginning he was already referring to the baby as Oliver even though we told them we weren't set on anything. I understand that it's his first grandkid and he's really excited and just wants to be involved but... ugh. 😑
Now my husband is second guessing our choice and wondering if we should just go back to Oliver so he doesn't have to deal with his family calling our kid the wrong name.
We're planning on waiting until we see him to make a final decision. I know I'm probably overthinking this just because it's getting so close and we have to actually decide next week! But I really just needed to rant for a sec.
Has anyone else had issues with family calling your kid a nickname you don't like? Did it end up sticking or were you able to get everyone on the same page in the end?
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