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Ouch! Wow....that is totally unexpected! I don't have a CLUE what I would have said to her if i'd been in your position. You know, it is your daughter so you have every right to tell her that you'd rather her not call her Mi Mi, but she probably will anyways. I'll have to think about this but I just don't know how i'd handle it?

Yes please get back to me - I can't just let it go and I shouldn't have to especially since this person was in here life over 20 years ago give me a break!

If it was me and one of my friends said it I would ask her to remove herself from high school and enter into the real world of grown ups. It is perfectly fine if she doesn't want to name her child Megan but to call yours by a different name so she doesn't ahve to a__sociate your child with a "bad experience" is ridiculous. I would just have to tell her that she needs to suck it up. Theres no reason for you to take a nice approach about this because calling your child some crazy name is not reasonable. If she gets mad I'm sure she will get over it. For heavens sake it's YOUR child.

Tell her you had a bad experience with a person named MiMi from the Drew Carey show! hah (to bad I never watch that show and am not even sure that was her name!) Do you like the name Meg (Oh I love that name!!!!) ? You could tell her you really don't like the name Mimi so she can call her Meg?!?!

Mimi from Drew Carey - LOLOL I will remind her about that

Totally...I like what both mommaminchey and ejmeskan said. You should just tell her no on it and say, hey I don't want to upset you or hurt your feelings, but consider mine! If you wanted your child called MiMi, you'd have named her mimi....it is very immature to avoid a name because of a bad experience.

yeah I am leaning towards that way myself I think that's kind of petty and maybe now that she has had a chance to think about it she will realize how silly that is

me personaly i would tell her that im sorry she had her bad experience but dont take it out on my daughter. im the kind of person that i dont like nic names till they grow up into one (if thats makes sense) example.... i named my son jakobb and my mom said after i had him "great we can call him jake, or jay, or something cute like that" i had to tell her that if i wanted my sons name to be jake or jay thats what i woulod have put on his birth certificate. its a hard situation ur in because your such good friends with her, BUT if your such good friends then she will understand right?

Explain to your friend that you put A LOT of time and thought into the name Megan, and you don't want her to belittle that by calling your daughter something else...and then kindly explain to her that by her refusing to call your dd by her name she is implying that somehow your child has done something to her by having the same name as some one she couldn't get along with many years ago., which is very immature! but you don't want to be rude about it... because you dont want to lose a dear friend BUT at the same time I must say i am not much fond of the name mimi for a child named megan...that makes no sense to me. Try to step lightly on this but stand your ground I feel a lot of care and love is put into chosing a childs name and for someone to chose not to call a child by their given name for something so pety is hurtful and immature...i hope your friend can step up and act like an adult since your dd didn't do a thing to her gl

If you don't like Mimi, then give her one of your nicknames to call her. What's the big deal if she doesn't want to say the name? You have no idea what this bad experience was. Maybe it was really painful for her.

your friend is out of order. one thing i have found frustrating being pregnant is how people react to names. they think they have an inherent right to say how much they hate a name if they don't like it. the funny thing is that you know once the baby is born they probably wouldnt utter a bad word about the name you have chosen! i think Megan is a gorgeous name, i would have chosen it myself had my hubby liked it as much. your story reminded me of one of my friends who said she didnt like the name Heidi as it reminds her of a farm girl!!! it just annoys me how people come out with all these opinions about every name you pick, there is always someone who won't like it! your friend is immature and you should tell her that you wouldnt want her calling your daughter 'Mimi' because thats not her name.

you should tell your friend not to call her MiMi as that is not her name or anywhere near her name. i read somewhere else that your mum was going to call her Meggie, maybe your friend could call her that instead, at least that way it's more like Megan. (which by the way i love the name). and CAT24 you know i love your girl name i can picture a little blondey with platted pigtails lol

girls thank you so much - I have lots of input to consider and think about before I approach the subject with her - I am glad I waited to really think about it before I reacted to harshly - I know this is just one little speed bump in a 15 year friendship....I would rather her call her pumpkin or princess LOL than MiMi....LOL Thanks again girls!