My husband's co-worker just had their baby boy and named him Jaxston. Are you freaking kidding me. Your co-worker's baby dies and you copy his name. I am so pissed off. I know we were not the first people to name our child Jaxon, nor the last, but the whole co-worker thing just blows my mind. I guess common courtesy and smypathy just doesn't exist anymore.

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Kenzington Rae 12/26/08
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I can see why that would hurt. Hopefully it's just a co-worker and not a close friend? If it's any consolation, Jaxon is becoming one of the most common names. Though I will admit it's weird to spell it the same way you did, with the x. Most people spell it Jackson. I really sympathize, though. I would flip if someone we knew named their baby Spencer. It would just hurt too bad to be around them or hear them speak of him. I really hope this is someone you won't have to hear updates from often. I'm sorry!!

That's ridiculous. I can't believe that. I can't figure out which is worse: knowing it is insensitive and doing it anyway or being so ignorant that you don't know it is insensitive. I'm so sorry.

Susanne

Wow. That's really sad and so hurtful.

Hopefully this was simply a matter of your co-worker's wife being stubborn and nasty and refusing to change the child's name and not a matter of the co-worker wanting to name the baby this.

How difficult. I pray that you and your husband are comforted through this. I'm so sorry.

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I know how hurtful that is and I can't believe that they are anything but "dumb" to do such a thing. If they thought about it at all they would know.

My brother wanted to name his son James (born a year after mine) and asked me what I thought and I said absolutely not. I was a bit shocked that they would even ask but I think that some people mean it as a way of dedication.

You have every right to feel hurt by this, but please know that they probably had no intentions of hurting you. I'm so sorry that people's ignorance has caused you more pain.

Jane
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That is very inconsiderate, but what is more is if your husband's sister names her baby the same name. We lost our boys in '03 and I had a Jackson and guess what,!!!! she had twin boys in Oct and named one Jackson. Ours was Jackson Everett and her is Jackson Evan. She is an idiot anyway...but this kind of inconsideration blows my mind.---and the name is on the grave marker.....she went to the cemetery often b/c she is the "flower arranger". It's not like seh forgot or didn't know!

You be as pissed off as you want to be and I'll be pissed off with you!

Melody
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I completely understand how you feel. We were in a small group through our church and one of the ladies was obviously further along than I was in my pregnancy. When we found out we were having a girl we told everyone in our small group her name. The other girl had the name Megan or McKaylah pick out. She went into labor a week after we lost our little girl. When they came back to small group they were not only insensitive to bring their newborn; as we hadn't recovered from losing our daughter. She announces that she changed the name and that her Daughters name was Katelin Elizabeth spelled exactly the same way were were spelling it!!!!! I just looked at everyone in the group and said, "Well if that isn't a slap in the face I don't know what is." Then we walked out and never returned. It still burns me up just thinking about it and this happened in 2004. I say you have your husband take pictures of the husband and wife co-wokers and put them up on dart board or something. Nothing really soothes the anger does it????

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Thank you for that. DH said I couldn't blog about this on my myspace because a few of his co-workers read it. I so want them to see it still. Both parents work with him. I think once our children were born they liked the name, but "couldn't" copy it so they just changed it a little. It is the same to me though. And I think what frustrates me the most is that we hear about it in a mass email after his birth. Thank you for telling me I am not crazy for being mad...that is what I needed.

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Rachel - mother of four...forever
^Jaxon^ (3/2/07-5/29/07)
^Courtney^ (3/2/07-3/8/07)
^Colin^ (3/2/07-3/8/07)
23 weeks 6 days
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Kenzington Rae 12/26/08
Born at 36 weeks after 5 months of

Hey Rachel,

I feel so terrible I haven't been on line in a long time and I get on and read this. I am so sorry you have to deal with that. What the hell were they thinking. that is so insensitive and rude. You have every right to be irritated! Some people just don't have a clue.

Raquel
Mom to triplet angels: Sophia, Steven Jr. & Xavier b/d 25w4d (11/26/06, & Sweet baby Joseph (11/14/07-11/14/07)
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I'm sorry. Believe it or not my brother did a similar thing. Our baby's name was Brendan. My brother and sil named their baby "Brennan" as a (and I quote) "tribute to my fallen soldier and bc we like the name". I didn't have the courage to tell them I couldn't believe they'd do that: 1. come up with a name so similar and 2. claim it was a tribute to my son - seems to me a tribute would be the same name...

Anyway, you are not alone and I'm sorry this happened.

Marie