To be peed off with my Mum......bit rambly

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My sister ahd a baby 3 weeks ago and called him the name she had picked (as you do) however my bloody mother is insisting on calling him George because thats what she wanted him to be called ,at first I ignored it (she dosen't talk to my dsis much so it all goes through me) but eveytime she mentions the baby its "hows George?" and when she saw him at a family event last week she rang me to tell me she had given George a cuddle .

Now she has just rang me to see what George would like for xmas and I found myself chatting to her about this bloody omaginary baby called George and I have twice called the baby George myself which sister is getting fed up of .

Mum has done this to me before on a couple of my bbay names but never kept it up for instance she called my dd Daisy for about two days till my dp taught the lo's to call her Grandma which she hates .

She does have Dyspraxia which makes things difficult and she is very stubborn I am the main person to take all her crap talk with her and deal with stuff but I need her to stop calling him George 'cos its becoming an issue .

Tell her to grow up and stop behaving like a bloody toddler.

Just deny any knowledge of George. Ask who George is. Talk about little Freddie (or whoever) but have no absolutely recollection of there being a George in the family - which should be quite easy because there isn't one .

YANBU. I would imagine your sister is getting fed-up. She only had a baby 3 weeks ago and is having to deal with her Mother choosing to call her son the name she wanted?!

Just ignore her and continue to refer to the baby by his real name, or just keep saying 'who is George?' 'oh you mean '. she will soon get fed up.

Are you related to me? My mum called our Dd a totally different name for ages before she finally copped on that she was not in charge, and that she'd had her chance to name a baby already and now it was my turn.

what a nightmare mothers can be eh

I used to say "who are you talking about?" a LOT!

She is been a total pita over it all I did say a few times who do you mean ,but she just ognores it and carry on abiut George.I am so not fazed usually by her odd behaviour most of the time ,but when I tell other people then I realise how odd it all is .

Sorry typos all over I have sausage fingers today lol.

the thing is that with mothers you have to treat them abit like toddlers and teens. If you let them continue un-checked they become utterly horrible.

What she is doing is NASTY, plain and simple, she is trying to impose her desire on her dd, she is being a petulant bully and counting on all of you being scared enough not to challenge.

she probably knows that the childs name will not be changed so she is just being a bitch for the sake of it. If you love her, you need to point this out to her, she has rationalised it in her own head, she needs to be told how hurtful, rude and disrespectful she is being.

Couldn't you do the same to her... call her the old witch or something equally offensive and see if she gets the message

My mum's doing that too! I told her she can try using her name if she wants but I'm not going to tell him off if he doesn't answer once he can talk. Now he's born it's better - seems she thinks Adam is just a bit too grown up for a wee mite.

Luckily a bit of cooing 'Silly Grandma!' at him has reduced it to her name just sounding like a petname, so I just let her get on with it - she's being unexpectedly supportive in other ways. And I'm universally known by a nickname she hates, which she managed to stay quiet about for over 10 years...