New Mom Says She Won't Discuss Baby's Name with Family Because They 'Don't Think It's a Real Name'

In a post on Reddit, the new mom says her own mother even hates her baby's name

• A woman on Reddit is at a loss after giving her daughter a name her family doesn't like

• The new mom knew the name might be unpopular but was hoping her family could see past that after her daughter's birth

• Now, her parents and siblings say she is being "childish" by not hearing them out

A new mom says she can't discuss her baby's name with her family, as they don't like the name she chose.

In a post shared on Reddit, the anonymous, 29-year-old woman says she gave birth to her daughter Sloane just more than 14 weeks ago. She and her husband, she writes, "didn't announce her name until she was born."

The reason, she says, is that she knew her family wouldn't like the name they chose.

"I know this because I started loving the name Sloane when I was a kid," she writes. "There was a girl in my class from 1st to 3rd grade and I told my family at the time I thought her name was really cool and they told me it wasn't and my parents said it wasn't even a real name."

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She continues: "I remember the negativity. I even remember my mom pitying her because of it. When I was 14 she even brought her up and told me she bet Sloane was going by her middle name or a nickname by then (she moved schools after 3rd grade so I didn't see her)."

"When I was 16 one of my friends transferred schools after a move and mentioned Sloane was in her class and still used Sloane. I rubbed it into my mom's face so hard," she adds in the post. "But she told me it was still an ugly name and she felt bad for the girl who had to have it as her name."

Her parents, she writes, "prefer names like Anna, James, Elizabeth, William and Hannah, which are my siblings and my names."

"They think those are sophisticated and classic and easy to use through life. They don't think Sloane's a kids name," she adds. "Just not a real name and so ugly."

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Despite the pushback she knew she'd get from her family, the woman and her husband chose the name Sloane for their daughter, waiting until her birth to share the name publicly.

"You might think that the name being official and on the birth certificate would deter any negativity on the name," she writes. "But since my daughter's name was announced my family have wanted to 'sit and discuss' the name. They said they never believed I would seriously carry on and name my daughter Sloane. I shut them down and told them I did and that was that."

Now, the woman says she told her family she won't be discussing the name further. Her family, meanwhile, says she is being "childish" by not continuing the discussion, she adds.

Commenters have urged the original poster to stand strong, writing, "If part of being in a family is hearing each other out, why doesn't that apply to you and your choice of baby name? It sounds more like 'listen to why you're wrong and then do what we say' than a mutual discussion of each other's opinions."

Others have argued that a child's grandparents shouldn't have "any say" in that child's name. One weighs in: "GrandParents don’t get a say at all. Wouldn’t even feel bad about it. But if they are this way now, [the original poster] needs to set clear, hardline boundaries and stand firm."

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