'I had severely underestimated the insistence that certain members of my family had about which names we (the parents!) should choose.'
As time went on, I developed a thicker skin, and became more comfortable with my own choices as a mother no matter what opinions were voiced around me. But perhaps I was a bitconfident, because when it came time to name our second child, I made the same mistake again—I included family members in the naming discussion.This time we weren’t considering naming our child after anyone who died. We were just trying to think of nice, simple baby names.
Still, nothing had been decided, and we casually mentioned “Peter” as a top choice to our families. Some liked it well enough. Some were sort of neutral. And some hated it. No, not just, “I don’t really like that name,” but “I didn’t even probe for why, or what on earth was wrong with it. I was so uncomfortable with the reaction that I excused myself from the conversation, locked myself in the bathroom and cried.
The name discussion didn’t exactly taint my experience of laboring and birthing our son, but it was there in the background. I was still raw from how upset I felt by family who were so freely announcing their hatred of our top name choice. But when our older son came an hour or so later to meet him, he immediately asked us what we picked as his name. He had been in on name the discussions too, though I wasn’t sure how much attention he was paying. When we told him that we hadn’t decided on a name yet, he looked at us like we had nine heads. “His name is Peter,” he said, incredulous.
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