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Agh my mum keeps suggesting baby names!

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stompstompstompyourfeet · 02/02/2020 18:04

Currently pregnant with DD2. I stupidly mentioned that we were struggling with a name.

That said, even when I was pregnant with DD1 (we didn’t find out the sex) we had two names picked for a boy and two names picked for a girl and she still kept suggesting names.

I don’t know why I’m finding it so annoying. The names she keeps picking are mainly Welsh (She isn’t Welsh she’s just obsessed with Wales Hmm) and not my type at all.

Despite me saying to her last time we already had names picked out she still kept doing it so I don’t know I’m going to get her to stop doing it this time.

I don’t think she’s doing it to be helpful either. She’s just controlling and likes having an input

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MissDollyMix · 02/02/2020 18:12

My MIL kept suggesting names when I was pregnant with DD. Eventually she suggested the name that we had already (secretly) picked. To this day she still thinks we picked it because she suggested it! That still narks me quietly!

OwlBasket · 02/02/2020 18:10

It’s not helpful and you have to make her stop. What if she chances on the name you’ve chose as one of her suggestions? You’d then have the joyous choice of letting her think she named the baby or having to choose another name.

Sharonthetotallyinsane · 02/02/2020 18:10

People love suggesting names, and you sort of invited it. You either say what you’ve said here or smile and nod.

MyuMe · 02/02/2020 18:08

Just smile and nod.

AmelieTaylor · 02/02/2020 18:08

Tell her to write them in a notebook and that you promise you’ll have a look closer to the time, but until then you don’t want want to hear or think about names -and just give her the evil eye next time she suggests one!

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