My colleague’s naming her baby after medical word for POO because she ‘likes the sound’- I daren’t tell what she’s doing
WHENEVER a mum-to-be tells your their baby name, the polite thing to do is smile and gush over how sweet it is – even if you think it’s absolutely terrible.
That said, there are always exceptions to that rule – and one woman has been left in a VERY awkward position after finding out the weird meaning behind the name colleague wants to give her son.
Sharing her dilemma on Reddit, the woman explained how both her and her colleague are currently expecting babies.
Although her colleague considers them to be mates, the woman admitted she finds her hard work given their wildly different approaches to parenting.
She explained: “We have very different birth plans and child rearing plans, which is fine on its own but she mocks pretty much every choice of mine that doesn’t match up with hers.
“I’m reading lots of books about birth and child rearing so I’m a helicopter parent, I want to breastfeed so I’m a crunchy hippy mom etc.”
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Admitting that she “doesn’t love talking to her”, the woman explained how her colleague messaged her last week to tell her she’d finally settled on a baby name.
She continued: “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.”
Unsure how to respond, the woman told her to Google it just in case it had “any cool meanings”.
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The mum-to-be said: “She said she wasn’t going to and she hated Googling names as it ruins them because there’s always someone who doesn’t like it.
“I really hope there is someone in her life who will let her know but I know she is very sheltered.
“I don’t feel it’s my place to – I feel telling her that’s the medical term for babies first poo will probably be breaching the boundary.”
That said, the mum says it might be worth staging an intervention for the child’s sake – especially as it’s pronounced exactly the same as the medical term.
She asked: “Should I just mind my business? I feel like maybe if we were better friends it would be okay but as stated our relationship is not very friendly…”
Unsurprisingly, the majority of members of the forum urged the woman to tell her colleague what the name actually means.
One replied: “You would [not be the a******. And there might be a great side effect.
“It’s possible she’ll get mad enough at you to stop talking to you!”
Another added: “What do you have to lose? You don’t really like this woman and telling her might save her child a lot of bullying in the future.”
Meanwhile, a third wrote: “Let her family handle this one. And the medical professionals if they find out about this!”
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