A mum who allowed her husband to choose their daughter's name has admitted she can't stand the moniker he picked - and refuses to use it.
The woman claimed in a post online that she gave her partner carte blanche to choose whatever name he wanted for their four-month-old daughter because she had been the one to name their first child, and he decided to call her India.
She also explained the name was picked in a rush because they needed to get the baby a birth certificate as soon as possible so that paperwork could be filed for a passport, so she didn't have enough time to properly consider the name before agreeing to it.
Now that the time crunch has passed, the mum has had plenty of time to really think about her daughter's name and has decided she can't stand it.
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In a post on Mumsnet, the mum-of-two claimed: "I would really appreciate some reassurance. My little girl is four months old and I really don't like her name, it doesn't resonate with me at all.
"It was my husband's choice, and as I named our son, I let him choose her name. I must have liked it at some stage, as I agreed to it a year earlier if we had a girl, but I felt pressured into it and he wouldn't agree to any of the names I suggested.
"We needed an urgent birth certificate and passport, so she needed a name!
"My parents hate it, so I'm not sure whether that has changed my opinion. I am having anxiety attacks about it, and can't stop questioning myself! He said we could change it in a year if I'm still unhappy, but that's too late.
"I'm trying to call her by her name to get used to it, but keep calling her 'baby'. Friends have said it's a great name, but I'm really unsure.
"Her name is India, and I sometimes shorten it to Indie."
Commenters on the post - which was made in 2013 but has recently resurfaced - were largely supportive of the woman, with many of them reassuring her that her baby's name is "lovely".
But others admitted that having strangers heap praise on the name won't help the mum if she doesn't like it, so encouraged her to talk to her husband about changing it before hitting the one-year mark.
One person said: "I think it's lovely! Unusual enough to be interesting, not so out-there that people are going to be raising eyebrows or mispronouncing it.
"If you really really can't get used to it and really think it's going to be a problem longer-term, then I read somewhere on here the other day that you have a year to change a baby's name on their birth certificate, but I don't know whether that's true."
While another added: "I love the name India, but then that doesn't exactly help you if you don't. Could you call her by her middle name?"
And a third wrote: "If you really really hate it I think you should push to change it ASAP, as leaving it will only make it worse."
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