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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
Grace Hoffman & Michael Broomhead

Mum-to-be defends 'very strange' and 'awful' name for her baby

A mum-to-be has hit back at online trolls who claimed the name she has chosen for her baby daughter is "very strange" and "awful". On Mumsnet, the pregnant woman originally sought advice for a middle name to accompany the first name selected for her baby.

But things soon turned sour when people slammed the baby's first name. Captioning the post, the woman wrote: "Middle name for Hero."

She said: "Expecting a baby girl and we've decided on first name Hero. Our other children have unusual but not unheard of names with more traditional middle names but struggling to find a name that flows nicely with Hero.

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