Alright, I'm doing my best to own the situation. I mis-named my kid. Yeah... you unfortunately heard that right. Yes, I had 9 months to figure it out and I still screwed it up. Yes, I feel like a complete inept dope, screwing up something so fundamental about my kid. My daughter is now 2 months old and both my husband and I have grown to strongly dislike (i.e. hate) her name. Believe me, we're both shaking our heads in disbelief - we never in our wildest dreams saw this coming. We're both quite ashamed to be honest. For some reason I'm now kinda thinking I'm inept as a mom because of this but I know the two things are unrelated.And we both agree that we need to change it now - we've tried our best to accept the current name and it just isn't working. We. Screwed. Up.I don't know what else to say. We weren't trying to be YouNeeque or trendy or anything, they're both classic names... it's just that we chose the more well-liked name out of the two choices we had and we didn't listen to our hearts. And ever since the end of week 1, it never felt right... and of course the hospital had already sent the info off to Vital Records so it was too late. I wanted to get some opinions from other parents. Is it... OK to rename a baby? If someone told you they renamed their kid at 2 months, what would your internal reaction be? We're going to do this legally via the courts, so it won't cause our daughter any problems in the future.I know nobody else's opinion matters apart from those living within my four walls... but it would help so much to get an idea of how you all would honestly perceive something like this. We haven't told family yet out of embarrassment, and we're just trying to get a feel for what the general reaction may be so we can prepare.Who'd have thought we'd have screwed up one of the very first things about parenthood... I'd really appreciate your reactions, comments, etc on this, fellow parents. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2TL6Hau
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