A woman who has been struggling to get pregnant has been left devastated by her sister, who secretly ‘stole’ her baby name.
The 32-year-old says she’s been struggling with infertility for seven years. While she and her husband are prepared for the fact they many never have children, it’s still a heartbreaking situation.
“We’re both currently in individual therapy to help us process all of this and find a way to be a peace regardless of what the future holds for us, but I truly hope we are lucky enough to have a child,” she explained.
“My husband and I have baby names picked out. We never talk about them. But we have a little note on our baby name book with our boy and girl name pick. It’s in our bedroom. We don’t look at it much anymore but it keeps us hoping, you know.”
The woman’s 36-year-old sister, who has five daughters, recently gave birth to her first son.
“My husband was working but I was at the hospital with my parents and my sister’s in-laws waiting for the birth. Once he was born we were called in to meet my nephew and my sister told us they’d chosen the name Elio for him.
“She said she knew the name was originally mine and my husband’s top choice but since we wouldn’t be having any kids after all this time, she decided they should use it and not let the name go to waste being kept secret by me.
“It was then I remember seeing my sister at my room while she was pregnant a few months before. I thought nothing of it at the time but realised she’d been snooping. My parents asked how she could do that without talking to me first. My sister replied that it seemed a shame to waste a perfectly good name if I asked her not to use it.
“I couldn’t handle it and I left. I didn’t even say congrats or anything. I left and went home and I cried for a while.”
The next day she says her sister called and asked why she’d made such a big deal of the situation.
“She said she was hurt I never discussed my baby names with her, gatekeeping them, even when I knew I wouldn’t have a baby. I asked her how she could could go out of her way to take the one name my husband and I had picked. She called me sensitive. I ended the call without another word.
“My parents checked in on me two days after. But since then my parents have said I should let it go and apologize for walking out. My sister also said it was her postpartum time and it was very selfish on my part.”
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