We all know that trying to come up with a great baby name isn’t always as easy as it sounds, though it can be one of the things we most look forward to when expecting a little one. A lot of us like names that are more unusual, whether in the spelling or where the inspiration for the name was pulled from. And we all understand there will likely be someone out there who doesn’t like the name we’ve chosen. It is what it is, right?
But what happens if someone you know tells you the name they plan to give their baby and it’s so bad (like soooo bad) you feel like you have to question it?
That’s what one woman is pondering after a workmate told her the name she intends to give her baby. Shocked, the Original Poster was conflicted and didn’t know if she should ask the person if she knows what the name means or leave it alone.
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She took to Reddit to share all the details and was hopeful someone would have an answer for her.
Posting to Reddit’s AITA community, OP shared that she is pregnant (37 weeks along) and at work there’s another person who is pregnant a week behind her. In their work-from-home jobs, the two talk a lot about their pregnancies and they don’t always see eye-to-eye. In fact, they’re very different.
OP explained that she and her coworker get into arguments from time to time about how informed they want to be about the whole process of pregnancy, labor, and birth.
At times they’re not exactly friendly with each other when they talk about this stuff.
"I want all the info I can get about labor, birth, what to expect, possible complications, interventions etc.," OP explained. "And she doesn't want to know anything because she just wants to trust God [and] the doctors about it all and not worry."
OP acknowledged that her coworker is obviously able to believe what she wants, "but she has snapped at me for replying to her asking about an appointment with ‘It was good I had a consult with anesthesia to learn about epidurals.’"
Her coworker has 'repeatedly' told OP that 'she wants to know NOTHING.'
That can make talking to her a very big challenge for OP.
"I'll admit it makes me feel like I'm walking a bit on eggshells when she does message as even something like me saying I was off because I had an appointment with a chiropractor because my pelvis was a bit sore made her go off on me," she shared.
OP is pretty clear that she isn't a fan of her coworker.
OP can’t avoid her because they work together, but recently this woman sent OP a message that’s left her conflicted.
"Unfortunately she messaged me Friday saying she picked a name out for her baby," OP shared. "She wants to name him (no I'm not kidding) Mackoneum (Meconium). She said she heard a doctor say it about her baby's first moments (it's the first poo.) and she liked the sound of it."
She added, "I am aware the spelling is different. I asked intended pronunciation. It is not different."
OK, let's acknowledge that this totally sounds like it could be an urban legend, but, what if it's not? Yikes on bikes.
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OP understood right away what that meant – but her coworker seemed to have no clue.
"I told her she should Google it ‘to see if it had any cool meanings’ she said she wasn’t going to," OP gently suggested, adding that her suggestion was declined.
OP said her coworker refused to look it up online because she “hated Google and googling names ruins them because there's always someone who doesn't like it.”
OP doesn’t feel like she should be the one to tell her coworker, but she hopes someone will.
"I don't feel it's my place to because I feel telling her that's the medical term for babies first poo will probably be breeching the boundary she's set of never wanting to hear anything and it is something that can cause complications," OP explained. "So getting her to look it up would be going against her wishes to not know anything bad that could happen etc which I don't want to do."
At the same time, OP thinks like she would be doing wrong if she didn’t tell her coworker. "I also feel knowing she's planning on naming her baby after poop maybe warrants an intervention?"
That’s when she turned it over to Reddit, hoping its users would have some advice.
"What do you have to lose?" one person questioned. "You don't really like this woman and telling her might save her child a lot of bullying in the future."
"If you tell her that she is planning to name her baby first poop (and misspelling it anyway)," someone else wrote. "It sounds like she'll get mad with you either way — if you tell her you're breaking her boundary of ignorance and if you don't you're letting her name her baby poop. It doesn't sound like much of a loss if she doesn't want to speak with you anymore."
"Overall, not your monkeys, not your circus," wrote another person. "Let her family handle this one. And the medical professionals if they find out about this."
This story seems so out there, we’re not sure if it’s real. But there have been a whole lot of interesting places people are pulling baby names from these days.
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