MIL tattooed DS's name...

[dilterry]

... We have just had a baby, 2 weeks ago, MIL immediately tattooed baby boys name on her arm.

However, we have since had a change of heart re the name... What a nightmare!

We didnt ask her to, or knew she was doing it, it's obviously really sweet of her to do it so that's not the problem it's more just now we dont want to call him that.

I feel awful! How on earth do we handle this? I'm really trying to talk myself into keeping the name, but it doesnt sit right...

Either the child is called Alan and the MIL's tattooist made a 'typo', OR the baby is named after the 7th planet of the solar system.

What a ridiculous thing to do

Sorry but this is hilarious😂

Is the name Aiden?

'cover-up' of a rotweiller usually works 🤔

Silly woman....I mean really........

Oh ps I'd let your partner deal with it 😈

If you don't like the name don't use it. DMIL should have waited till it was registered. What does Dad think about it?

Liverpool Echo: Mum wants to change newborn's name after 'nightmare' tattoo blunder.
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Oh please tell me the name she had tattooed was Engelbert

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I thought I was as the only person thinking this, it's quite unusual to change a name two weeks in I'd say, totally within your rights but I'd be quite shocked if a name was in use and then was changed. Was it clear the name was just a maybe or has it been a name announcement and now will be a full retraction, did she have any reason to doubt the name was the final decision? either way you can't keep the name because of a tattoo but I'd be a bit more contrite if MIL had every reason to believe (like most baby name announcements) that it was a done deal

Nooo 🤣that’s hilarious

what a numpty. Mil not you

You'll just have to put some pressure on DH's siblings to name the next child whatever the original name was. Only solution I can think of.

Yes, but this granny already has the names of all her children and other granchildren tattooed on her, so it's hardly a surprise that she would do it with this one.

It’s Piers isn’t it?

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Aw bless, but it’s not your fault the poor old biddy is getting so forgetful she can’t remember her grandchild’s name unless it is tattooed on her arm. Get her a book of sudoko and word puzzles to get those synapses firing again.

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Buy her a long sleeved jumper or ask your DH to change his name so the tattoo isn’t pointless…?!

Not your problem

I would hate the family conflict on this one 😂 I think I would put the current name suggestion on the birth certificate, the tattoo one, but call him something different. A friend of mine’s son is named one thing but then her other son (the brother) kept calling him another name and it stuck. I can’t even remember that kid’s original name.

This is your child, and you should call him what you feel is the right name for him. Its super sweet that mil had his initial name tattooed, but dedicatedly rather premature for something so permanent. We didn't settle on a name for my middle daughter till we were in our way to the registry office! And my youngest girl, we had a name picked out, but once she was here, it just didn't seem to be the right one.
If it were me, I'd tell the mil that you are honoured by the tattoo, but unfortunately she has been a bit far off the mark as you hadn't quite decided as yet and aren't going to be using that name.

Really, it isn't your problem. What sort of mil is she? Would it work coming from you or your partner better?

Well she didn’t hang about did she! There’s no way I would call my baby a name I didn’t like just to make it fit the tattoo absolutely ridiculous nor would I enter again it as a middle name, her fault not yours!

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