Choosing a name for your baby can be an incredibly stressful experience. From narrowing down the options to telling your loved ones, there's lots to think about, and there's lots that can go wrong.
Well, one mum-to-be who had a hard time picking out a moniker has been left fuming after her choice was rebuffed by her mother. While the new parent thought she'd made the perfect pick, her mum suggested it "sounds like a dog name".
Unfortunately for the woman, lots of people agreed with her mum's point when she took to Reddit's 'name nerds' forum keen for advice.
The unnamed mum wrote: "I have been endlessly stressing about picking a boy name and I finally found one I like. I love Beau because the word itself means lover, admirer, it’s another word for boyfriend but an older slang. But the name itself is French, meaning handsome or beautiful and I just feel like that’s very sweet. It gives me strong lover-boy vibes, very romantic.
"I liked it until I told my mom about it and her exact words were 'it sounds like a dog name'. I told her that I liked it and why and she continued 'I don’t know it’s just weird.' I can’t explain how enraged those words have made me. ( Pregnancy hormones are not helping at all.)"
She added: "I feel like there’s so many nicer ways she could’ve went about saying she didn’t love it. Especially knowing how hard this process has been for me. I have spent so many hours looking at names and I’m honestly on the verge of tears out of pure anger that she would say something so rude about a name that literally exists?
"There were so many nicer ways to deliver that?? And to make it even better his father's middle name is literally Bo, I just want to change the spelling to one I liked more. Is she right? Is it a bad name that people will think is a dog name?"
In response, commenters were quick to reassure her Beau is a beautiful name, though many pointed out it is popular with dog owners. One person wrote: "It's a common dogs name but it’s not bad. This is why I’ll never tell anyone their name until they're born lol."
Another said: "Yeah it's my old dog’s name, and I've met many other people who have dogs with the same name (most notably, the Obama family). But if you like it, go for it!!! It’s cute."
While a third thought: "I really like Beau. Please use it if you like. It's a perfectly normal male name and I guarantee your mum will grow to love it when he's here."
The mum replied: "That's what I'm thinking too. Especially as her only grandchild, she’ll learn to like it when it’s associated with her grandkid."
In an update to her post, she later added: "We talked about it more and she said she likes the spelling I’m picking more than the spelling she originally thought of. And knowing it’s his dad's middle name made her like it more because she didn’t originally know that.
"Still a little salty she ever said that but at least she’s on board now."
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