When Your Niece Has a Baby What Is It to You

NMAmy

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• #3

Well, I've heard people say "grand-aunt" but that just sounds weird to me. In our family, we refer to it as a great aunt.

I've been an aunt since I was 12 and a great aunt since I was 32. I have a lot of experience so we figure that I'm GREAT at it.

Plus it makes my nieces giggle when I call them my GREAT nieces.

marybet

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• #4

I never heard of grand aunt either. You are a great-aunt, age has nothing to do with it. My sister's children have children and I am their great-aunt.

PatsMom

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• #5

You are a great aunt by my family's definition. I've never heard the term grand aunt.

wils

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• #6

I'd say 'Great Aunt' as well.

My nephew has just announced that he and his DGF are expecting. I told him that he might be old enough to reproduce but he wasn't too old to avoid going over my knee if he ever calls me a 'Great Aunt' again

Feels kind of funny as my Great-Aunt has always been old and grey in my eyes!

dis75ney

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• #7

You're a great aunt...age has nothing to do with it. I became a great aunt at the ripe old age of 22...

• #8

You're not just a great aunt, you're a FABULOUS aunt!

-says the aunt of a niece old enough to now have children. If she has kids before I do, I'll shoot her.

• #11

I googled it. They're the same thing. It's in various dictionaries.

Personally, I'd say great aunt.

• #12

They are the same thing, although great aunt is used more commonly than grand aunt.

Personally, I will prefer being called great aunt when my niece or nephews have children.

Michelle67

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• #14

Yep, great aunt and grand aunt are the same thing. Don't worry about the age thing, though. I've been a great aunt since I was 23 years old.

Micca

SAHG: Stay At Home Grandfather

• #15

FWIW, whatever you are, you are in the $25 or less gift card giving category.

Cool-Beans

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• #16

Yes, you are. When I had my first, I told my aunt that she had always been a Great Aunt, but now she had the official title.

She's just "Auntie May" to the kids, though. No "great" anything.

• #17

I was an Aunt before I was born and a Great Aunt before I was a Mom.

I don't like the term "Grand Aunt". Sounds too much like "Grandmother" to me!

Michelle67

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• #18

My great nieces and nephews all call me Aunt Michelle. My nieces and nephews are so close to my own age, the oldest being born when I was 7, and the youngest when I was 13, that they just call me by my first name. My kids get a little confused sometimes that their cousins are adults and their cousins children are the ones who are their age.

froglady

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• #19

Aunt, great-aunt, whatever -- none of these terms have anything whatsoever to do with age!

For example, one of my daughter's friends has two much-older brothers, and she's been an aunt since she was one year old. Being an oldest child, I wasn't an aunt until I was 27 years old (and I wanted to be one so badly!). Likewise, I know a few people my age who've married older men, and they've become grandmothers in their late 30s, early 40s! Wow! They could potentially become great-grandmothers around the time I become a grandmother!

I knew someone who was an aunt before she was born, and was a great aunt when she was around 22! Her mother had another child when she was already a grandmother, so my friend had a niece who was a year older than she.

And I was a Great- Aunt before I was a mother myself; my niece had a baby before I did.

So age definitely has nothing to do with it.

froglady

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• #20

I was an Aunt before I was born and a Great Aunt before I was a Mom.

I don't like the term "Grand Aunt". Sounds too much like "Grandmother" to me!

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When Your Niece Has a Baby What Is It to You

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