To have kicked MIL out over baby’s name?

Here for the name, she might be saving your child.

OTOH MIL could be totally crazy.

So you've 'excluded' her for - what, a couple of days? It's hardly like your DD is now seventeen, is it? I'm sure she'll get over a few days of not seeing her GD.

And she can shut up about the name. It's not her choice, so what. It wasn't her choice.

Maybe your SIL needs to realise if your MIL wasn't so rude you wouldn't have to respond to her comments. Why should your MIL get a free pass to say what she likes. You did right to tell her.

Name reveal 🙏

I'm on team you - I regret trying to keep the peace with m'n'law as I started to resent her eventually and I do wonder if I spoke my mind actually maybe we would have had a better relationship.

YANBU it amazes me that some people think they have any kind of a say over what others name their children, that you’ll change your mind just because they don’t like the name.

Hopefully your MIL has learnt her lesson and will keep her mouth shut in future if she’s nothing nice to say. Dickhead.

O my goodness what a thing to say, what an admittance!

Fanny is v. common in France. There are Fanny coiffures, Fanny cafés, E-shop de Fanny en un click, Fanny boutique etc.

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My daughter wants to name her future daughter (she is not pregnant and doesn’t intend to be for some years yet) Arena

as in Wembley

Definitely rude, but the name might explain in part.

I don’t even need to know the name.
she is totally out of order.

I think it depends entirely on the name.

As someone who was saddled with an utterly ridiculous name (that my parents were adamant was completely normal) I am forever grateful to my very tactful Nana who managed to argue the case for me having a "boring" middle name in anticipation of me wanting to rid myself of the ridiculousness asap (she was spot on!)

That said your MIL was anything but tactful so it was never going to be helpful if the name is ridiculous

My bet is on Margot

It's Florence isn't it?

Well done OP! Your baby, your choice of name. Enjoy your little one, I hope she brings you such joy and love x

She was rude. Even if the name is terrible, you smile and say “lovely”.

YANBU. I am glad your dh is inside as well

Personally she would not be coming back until she apologises and I would expect her to use the name and not express her thoughts to anyone else

My DSD was going to call her son Jakes - not Jake, but Jakes.
I almost exploded, she thought it was an Anglicised version of Jacques.

I'm glad I did, she changed her mind when I pointed out it meant shithouse, bog, khazi

I got weird looks when I said what I was calling my daughter, still do to this day and it’s a really common name 😂

I now need to know the name!

I quite like that !

She sounds rude how she's gone about it and it was probably best she left. Presumably she's being dramatic and you're not actually cutting her out?

It's possible the name is important though. If it's something 'interesting' her reaction is more understandable perhaps.

Me too 😂😂😂

It doesn't change the fact she was rude and you were right to kick her out.

But I need to know what caused her to have such a dramatic reaction to the name 👀

OP this is beyond rude, where is the Lilac Fairy when she is needed.
This asking mil to leave was because she was rude, what she said,
her mockery and besides which it is not her call !!!

mothers/mils and names… they had their chance with their babies and look at some of the names they bestowed…

my mum offered me 1000 tocall my baby after my deceased brother, I refused,
then she said, of course my favourite name is Daniel so you can call him Danny…
eyeroll, we have a name ready thanks
when he was born and named she declared it too Teutonic. I had to look that up.

my daughter’s name she mocked

my sister’s mil remarked on daughters name that it was ok for a baby but not
a grown womans name…

these conversations were by telephone - rude and unnecessary, this is why we
learned not to ever mention and not be drawn on baby names, although we did
have some fun after a while declaring names such as Ermintrude ^ Winifred,
Gillespie, Cuthbert, Archibald, enjoyed the shrieks of dismay of family who could
not mind their own business and not mine

another phenomenon which astonished me was the number of people making
suggestions!

OP don’t be put off, this is your baby’s name now, ignore mil she has cast a cloud
which needs dispelling, you can do this by repeating baby’s name over and over
like an incantation, ha ha

You did right! Cheeky bitch. In all fairness I did not like my friends baby's name but would never have told her. You just don't. I got over it. It's her name. Also, I work in childcare. Some of the names I've come across....when first hearing them I was mind blown but got used to them after a week or 2. Sounds like your baby name is pretty normal.

I agree with the SIL. Also want to know the name!