Friends named their baby our daughter's nickname a year after our loss.
Our friends just has a baby today, a year and 15 days after we lost our daughter, Camila. They were secretive about their daughter's name as many people are and we thought nothing about it.
Today they sent over they birth announcement and they named her Mila, which was the nickname that we had been using for our daughter.
While I know we don't own the name and if it was someone on the street I wouldn't be this upset but we are supposed to close friends and we go to the same church. We will see her at least twice a week, this new reminder of our loss hurts so much.
A heads up that they were going to use the name would have been appreciated so we were not blindsided.
It seems so thoughtless and insensitive that they would use her name. Would they have named her that if our Mila was alive? They would have been only a year apart.
I had to leave 2 group chats that they are in because of all the "Welcome Mila" messages.
Am I overthinking this and over reacting? Because it feels like a loss all over again.