In-Laws deciding name...

ShahreyarKhan · June 4, 2012, 7:44pm

Re: In-Laws deciding name…

this must be interesting, lets see who wins, do update us on the result

Maybe I’m feeling emotional and crazy cos of pregnancy hormones…but this has been making me super-depressed lately. My hubby wants my FIL to name our first kid. The problem is, the name they’ve picked (Ibrahim) is a name that someone else in my family, who is also pregnant, has already picked out for her baby and she told us this before I found out I was pregnant. They also picked another name (Azeem), which my husband and I both don’t like - hubby was able to tell his father this. However, when I asked him to convey that Ibrahim isn’t going to work out either…he got all defensive. He thinks I’m being unreasonable. He wants there to be complete naming authority given to his father, no questions asked. His reasoning is that his grandfather named him (kind of), so he wants that same tradition for our baby. Apparently, asking my FIL to suggest another name would be disrespectful. =/

I don’t know what to do, since I’m not against my in-laws giving suggestions/naming our baby…but I want to be on-board with the name they pick. And another thing is, my husband hasn’t considered my parents thoughts on the matter at all. This is their first grandchild, and the first boy in our family. He won’t budge from his father solely choosing the name though.

How do I approach this without making everyone go nuts? =/