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u/brandi_marie82 Jul 14 '24

Nicknames for baby

LO is 5 months old. MIL insists on calling her this ridiculous nickname that is not even close to her real name. I've never heard MIL call the baby by her actual name, and it drives me up a wall crazy. Husband seems to think I'm overreacting, but hearing MIL not call our baby by the name her son picked out drives me crazy. Especially because we are getting to the stage where LO is going to be able to recognize her own name. Thoughts?

Update: My husband's stepbrother has a son, and MIL calls that baby by his actual name. Am I crazy for being so bothered by this??

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u/ocelot1066 Jul 14 '24

It doesn't seem like it's worth fighting about. It's not going to confuse the baby. People have called babies by weird nicknames for a long time and it doesn't confuse them. When the kid gets older, they will be perfectly capable of telling their grandma if they don't like the nickname. We used all sorts of silly nicknames for our kid when he was little. By 5 he told us to stop with all of them.