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18th October 2021
03:24pm BST

"My baby should be his own person. So I gave him a different name on his birth certificate," the widow admitted.
The mum confirmed his name on Facebook, much to the mother-in-law's disgust.
"When I made the announcement on Facebook that baby "Lucas" had arrived, I started getting confused comments from my mil. She called me a few hours later, asking why I had broken the promise. I told her my reasoning, and that I just wanted to move on in a healthy way. That I felt like calling my husband's name when referring to my son would hurt me and make the process harder."
The mother-in-law claimed what she did was disrespectful to her late husband. The new mum admitted that she didn't feel the need to tell her or any of her extended family about the name change.The mother-in-law started to yell at her, "She said she had been waiting all this time to meet her grandson and now she doesn't even want to see him. I said that was fine and hung up. I do feel bad that I didn't honor the promise but I feel like I don't owe her or anyone anything."
The mum explained that she changed her mind about her son's name shortly after he was born.
Do you think the new mum was in the wrong?
We think she's perfectly entitled to change her own child's name. Naming him after her late husband may make things harder for her, but a word of warning to her mother-in-law may have been a good idea? What do you think?Explore more on these topics: