'My colleague has picked her baby name but she doesn't know the gross meaning'

Not everyone is going to like the name you pick for your baby, that's a given.

But one woman has been put in an awkward position after finding out the weird meaning behind the name her colleague plans to give her son.

In a post on Reddit, the anonymous woman explained that both she and her colleague are currently expecting babies.

And although her colleague considers them to be friends, their wildly different approaches to parenting makes her feel like she's "walking on eggshells" when the topic comes up.

She explained: "We have very different birth plans and child-rearing plans, which is fine on its own but she mocks pretty much every choice of mine that doesn't match up with hers.

She's not sure whether to tell her what it really means (Getty Images)

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"I'm reading lots of books about birth and child-rearing so I'm a helicopter parent, I want to breastfeed so I'm a crunchy hippy mom etc."

Last week, her colleague messaged her to say that she'd finally settled on a baby name.

She continued: "She wants to name him (no I'm not kidding) Mackoneum (Meconium).

"She said she heard a doctor say it about her baby's first moments (it's the first poo.) and she liked the sound of it."

Unsure how to respond, the woman told her to Google it just in case it had "any cool meanings".

The mum-to-be said: "She said she wasn't going to and she hated Googling names as it ruins them because there's always someone who doesn't like it.

"I really hope there is someone in her life who will let her know but I know she is very sheltered.

"I don't feel it's my place to - I feel telling her that's the medical term for babies first poo will probably be breaching the boundary."

The mum also says that "naming her baby after poop maybe warrants an intervention" - especially as it's pronounced exactly the same as the medical term.

She concluded her post by asking users: "Should I just mind my business? I feel like maybe if we were better friends it would be okay but as stated our relationship is not very friendly..."

Unsurprisingly, the majority of members urged the woman to tell her colleague what it really means.

One person said: "I hope you do for the sake of the kid. F**k her, but that kid should not suffer."

Another commented: "Oh, the kids gonna suffer one way or another. The kid will suffer every day until it moves out."

"If she wants to name her fetus after faecal matter after that, then it's on her," said a third.

Someone else said: "The kid will 100 per cent never be bullied because of its name," while another person put: "Sometimes I really wonder WTF is wrong with people."

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