{"id":5461,"date":"2019-05-06T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=245741"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:13","slug":"mom-is-outraged-after-finding-out-her-mother-in-law-changed-the-babys-name-at-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mom-is-outraged-after-finding-out-her-mother-in-law-changed-the-babys-name-at-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Is Outraged After Finding Out Her Mother-In-Law Changed The Baby\u2019s Name At The Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared at American Web Media<\/a>.<\/span>Mother-in-laws can be challenging, but this one sounds like particularly hard work!<\/span>One new mom wrote into Slate\u2019s advice column with a particularly horrific tale. As she lay in the hospital recovering from delivery, her mother-in-law convinced her husband to legally change her baby\u2019s name.<\/span>\u201cMy son is 2 months old, and I just discovered my husband spelled our son\u2019s middle name as \u201cFinlay\u201d instead of \u201cFinley\u201d on all of his legal documentation,\u201d the new mom \u2014 code name Mama Bear \u2014 wrote to Slate\u2019s advice columnist.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cI, of course, am furious, because I told him I was fine with the middle name but it had to be spelled Finley\u2014and he agreed before our son was ever born.\u201d<\/span>To rub salt in the wound, this mean mother-in-law sent a Christmas present to baby Finlay, but the baby\u2019s mom just assumed this was an innocent mistake. Later, she\u2019d find out that this scheming grandma even conspired to name the baby Finlay, even though the baby\u2019s mother preferred this to be his middle name.<\/span>Naturally, Mama Bear is livid.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\u201cHe just let me keep believing for two months that our son\u2019s middle name was spelled Finley when it legally isn\u2019t!\u201d she wrote. \u201cI discovered this all when I went looking for his Social Security card and birth certificate to file them away properly.\u201d<\/span>When Mama Bear confronted her husband, he said he regretted giving in to his mother, and had been working up the courage to tell his wife. It remains unclear how the husband thought this scenario could possibly play out.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\u201cNow here is where it gets tricky,\u201d Mama Bear wrote. \u201cApparently, his mother guilt-tripped him into doing this while I was asleep after my emergency C-section. Keep in mind she lives a few states away, so this was all over the phone. She tried to convince him to give our son a first name that I very much hated, saying that I would \u201cget mad, but get over it.\u201d
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\n<\/span>\u201cMy husband is very much also at fault for doing this in the first place, and we are working through that together, but I feel as though something needs to be said to my mother-in-law. Do I approach her about this? Do I let my husband approach her about this? Do we approach her together? What should I say?\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\u201cI have no desire to have any sort of relationship with her moving forward, so I am not worried about playing nice,\u201d she wrote, noting that she\u2019ll be changing her son\u2019s name to the correct spelling in the very near future.<\/span>What advice would you give to Mama Bear? Let us know in the comments below!<\/span>
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This story originally appeared at American Web Media.Mother-in-laws can be challenging, but this one sounds like particularly hard work!One new mom wrote into Slate\u2019s advice column with a particularly horrific tale. As she lay in the hospital recovering from delivery, her mother-in-law convinced her husband to legally change her baby\u2019s name.\u201cMy son is 2 months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45793,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions\/45793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}