Nicknames

Rakiki3

A lot of people have nicknames for their unborn baby until the time he/she arrives and even after birth. I have found myself calling this one peanut, so I think peanut will be the nickname. When we found out we were pregnant, DH wanted to nickname the baby squirt lol.

The nickname will also come in handy since we are not sharing the name of this baby (if it's a girl) since the name will have a significant meaning to my family and I want them to find out when the baby is born. But if it's a boy, well we don't have a name yet lol

Do you have a nickname for your LO? Are you planning on keeping the name a secret or sharing?

Mass-girl-at-heart

Right now I'm saying #2 but I need to stop because every time I say it I think of poop.  I'm trying new one's on for size, the first that came to mind was Ronald, a name we would never use but it's fun.  Another one is my baking bean because I am obsessed with eating baked beans right now.

kerrymass

We're calling our baby Doodle until birth.  We'd like to find out the gender and we'll share that... but we are planning on keeping our name choices a secret until birth.  (Doodle was a nickname that mother-son used for each other on Driving Miss Daisy and we were watching that a couple nights after our BFP - we heard it there and it just stuck).

lageorgiapaperie

We call our little fetus Pickle, DH came up with that one. We will find out the gender and share with everyone, but are planning on keeping the name a secret.

Trumom76

DD was Peanut while pregnant and we kept her name a secret until birth. Some of our friends still call her Peanut. DD said the baby in my tummy is baby Huffington from her favorite show Max and Ruby. We thought that was hilarious so Baby Huffington it is, for now.

Fletcha

It's Nugget.

2gr8pits

Our nn for baby is Elvis because we conceived in Vegas...we are not finding out sex and cannot agree on any names at all so we probably won't have a final name until after we meet the baby

rubyjem00

We call our LO Skittle and hopefully we can keep up with it because we are not planning on sharing the name until the baby is born. We are also now up in the air about whether we are going to find out the gender. At first I thought that we absolutely would but now I think that it might be more fun to wait.

acalan13

We call ours baby a.  Baby b isn't with us anymore, but we never dropped the "a" from the blessing growing!

stacyandjay22

We call ours Beanie because when I went in for my first ultrasound at 7 weeks all baby looked like was a bean...

scprincessrn

At our first US all I saw was a blob on the screen.  Thus ours is "Blobby."  It is also a nod to my husband who has the same name minus the "L."

mrsabp

we have been calling it ziggy ( aka ziggy the zygote ) since we first found out. It stuck, we will share the sex and then when it gets closer we will share the name with family. 

amanda~mm

No nickname yet... nothing seems right.

We are not sharing the name until baby is born.

hlc820

My DH calls it RJ which i his 1st initial and J for Jr.  Funny because we will NOT be doing a Junior name.......i think he just likes that it's part of him

HazelBee22

We have pretty well settled on Little Bean, though the occasional Peanut gets thrown in there too.

Same boat as a lot of families - we will share the sex, but not the name or name options. DH and I decided not to name Little Bean until he/she is born. We don't want to peg the baby with Susan and she ends up looking like a Molly. 

Nessie82

We have been joking around calling it Cletus (the fetus) or Baby Gaga

 My Mom calls it Cupcake which is cute.

JNicMTek

No nickname, I don't remember having one for DD either. We refer to Baby or This One, but that's about it. If we ever come up with a name, we have no problem sharing when we're certain it won't change. That won't be for a long time though I'm sure.

getnmarried910

We always have a nickname because with the first two we didn't share the sex or names, and with the third we didn't know the sex.  We aren't planning to find out so we'll need a nickname.  So far our son has given his choices, but our daughter hasn't.  His choices are Pablo, Beachy, and Blue baby.

We never share the names before birth...and then we don't even share the name we didn't use!  Too many opinionated people in our family!

BAMA6639

No nickname.  We just call it "baby" or "it".  Yep, we're boring.

dianasue

We call our baby Lil' P since our last name begins with a P.  Our family members have caught on so now everyone call the baby Lil' P!! 

MommyandKate

We also use "#2".

gina_bo_bena

Like others have posted, we call ours Little Peanut or Little Bean.

We're having a hard time deciding on names (DH is so stubborn!), but I've been sharing the options with close friends and family.  Some give opinions (thanks, mom), but it won't really effect the outcome.

iluvmylab

Chickpea!

oasis16

This little one started out as Mutant (due to high betas and an initial u/s that indicated the possibility of twins, but ended up as one super, mutant baby), then morphed into Bacon, then Bacon Nugget, then Mutant Bacon Nugget.  This all happened in the first week or two, btw.

Since week 5 or 6, we've settled on Nugget. We probably won't find out the sex, so we'll be saying Nugget until December.

BGGP9196

We call ours, "our little froggie"  because on the 1st u/s we thought it looked like a frog

LMH1209

DS was the peanut, so we've been referring to this one as the cashew

jhalula

scprincessrn:

At our first US all I saw was a blob on the screen.  Thus ours is "Blobby."  It is also a nod to my husband who has the same name minus the "L."

 

I find this funny.  My brother calls our LO Blobby H because the first US picture isn't exactly clear.  It was perfect on the monitor, but of course, pictures aren't the same size!  My husbands name is also missing the "L" is his name!  

 Otherwise, we refer to our LO as "jellybean".  My SIL came up with it as a code name when I told her, but was keeping it from other friends/family until the timing was right.  We are going to find out the sex, and have pretty much narrowed down 1 name for a each gender.  I am pretty sure that we will tell our family the name too.  We have very creative people on both sides, so if they want to make something and include the name, I would like them to be able to do so!

Bookwormyone

We started calling the LO dino nugget.  We just said nugget until my m/s started getting bad.  DH said it was because the baby was roaring, so I started calling him/her dino nugget.  The best part is now my entire family uses that name.  I get daily texts from my sis asking if DN roared today.   Although occasionally we call it rubber duck because in the first US pic the baby seriously looks like a duck.

We do have names picked out already.  We have about 10 but we're fairly certain about the two we'd like to use (one for a boy, one for a girl).  Like a PP, we will probably not be sharing the name because my family is super opinionated.  I hate secrets though, so I may change my mind.  If I do it will be probably over the phone so I don't have to see faces, and the understanding will be that I don't want to hear any crap because it's not up for discussion.  Others can love/hate the names as they choose.  It took DH and I forever to agree on names and we're not changing just because it's not someone else's favorite.

awillis13

When we had our dating u/s at 7 weeks, DH thought baby looked a little like a monkey (because it was just a blob at that point).  So now our nickname is Monkey :-)

MrsT2008

We call ours Squishy (like from Finding Nemo)

UAbride31007

amanda~mm:

No nickname yet... nothing seems right.

We are not sharing the name until baby is born.

This. I'm glad to see so many who are finding out gender but not telling names. Our families are making us feel so bad for not telling them the names but frankly we don't want to have to listen to everyone's opinion about the name.

Sometimes we call it baby alien peanut because that's kinda what it looked like in the beginning.