She Upset Her Friend After Revealing That She’s Giving Her Daughter The Same Name As The Baby Her Friend Lost Two Years Ago
If you’re a parent, were you ever in that uncomfortable situation where you and a loved one wanted to use the same baby name?
One pregnant woman recently upset her friend after revealing she’d be naming her daughter the same name she named the baby she lost two years ago.
She’s 30 and is expecting her first child, a baby girl, with her husband. It’s been a very exciting time for her, except for a recent conflict with her best friend.
She’s been close with her friend Camille since childhood. They’ve gone through a lot together and have always been there for one another.
Camille was there for her during a traumatic moment in her teenage years. When she was 16, she had a little cousin named Ingrid, who died of cancer when she was only 8-years-old.
Then, two years ago, Camille became pregnant after a long bought of infertility issues, and she announced she’d name her baby girl Ingrid.
“Camille knew about my Ingrid and was even at her last goodbye,” she said.
“She spent days drying my tears. When she told me about her baby name, I was a little bit upset, but I never said anything because I don’t own the name.”
Tragically, Camille’s baby girl died during childbirth. It was a very hard time, and Camille even briefly lived with her and her husband afterward because she was so depressed.
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When she became pregnant, she had always known she wanted to use the name Ingrid if she had a girl. The hardest part was breaking that news to Camille.
“A few days ago, Camille asked me if I already had names for my daughter, and I answered yes, but I wanted to talk to her about it,” she recalled.
“I told her of my intentions to give my daughter the middle name Ingrid [and] she burst into tears inconsolably. She started yelling at me that I was selfish.”
Camille told her she was an idiot and accused her of “stealing” her late daughter’s name. Camille yelled at her and asked how she could choose that name, knowing about her personal history with it. She tried explaining to Camille that it had nothing to do with her baby but that she always wanted to use the name to honor her cousin.
Camille refused to hear her out and left her home. A few days later, she began posting passive-aggressive things on social media about “fake friendships.”
“She’s already told her family, and they haven’t stopped filling my phone with messages about how insensitive I am,” she explained.
“It was never my intention to hurt Camille, but so many messages made me feel terrible, and I don’t know what to do anymore.”
Would she be a bad person for using Ingrid as a middle name, or is Camille overreacting?
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