What to call Baby while still in the womb

matt and lori · March 2009

Here's a kind of strange question for y'all - I will put it in context for you - my DH is a little kooky in a cute sort of way -

Anyway - he would like to come up with a name to call the baby before "it" is born so that we're not always referring to 'it' as IT! He doesn't want to find out if it's a he/she (although I do, so I probably will!) so we're trying to think of something cute/clever to call him/her for the next 7 months.

Example - his sister called their DD "Albuquerque" before she was born, because it rhymed with their last name.

Thanks!

hollybabe · March 2009

What does Albequerque rhyme with? Ralbequerque? Talbequerque?

Anyway, to the question at hand...

We called DS Chuck Norris while in utero. I'm not exactly sure why, but it stuck. It was even written on my shower cake.

smismar · March 2009

Before we knew the sex, we called ours Waldo because she always hid from the Doppler and the doc had to chase her around to find the heartbeat - so it was like Where's Waldo Stick out tongue

Now, we've been calling her Hedwig (NOT our chosen name). It was the utterly worst name that my mother suggested and it's stuck as a nn.

MrsDuncan · March 2009

Ours is Wombat. (womb-bat... get it...) Stick out tongue

Tess12 · March 2009

We called our daughter "Pedroia" after Dustin Pedroia, the baseball player. When we found out it was a girl, we changed it to "Dusty" until we picked out her name.

InLove24 · March 2009

we haven't come up with a name so we call her our little monkey

beckys96 · March 2009

We called her LB (Little Booger). We still call her LB today!

dairygirl19 · March 2009

We rotate between:

Chucky (why I don't know. Sounded funny one night I guess)

Circle (Becuase that's what it looked like on the first u/s)

Jackolass (Dh's stupid baby name suggestion 2 weeks ago)

Jackolass is currently sticking though!

jolis_petits_bijoux · March 2009

DH calls him "Little One", "Thor", or "Junior". I call him JB - short for "Junebug".

dakota01 · March 2009

With my DS we didn't find out and had called him Festus (the fetus).

This one is Ziggy (the zygote).

easjer05 · March 2009

We called the first one Chickadee. Also didn't want an 'it' and didn't plan to reveal the sex.

The next one will probably be little chickie or chicken little.

rainingfire · March 2009

well how about jumbee like from the movie unborn that would be so cool i think and so much fun if ppl knew what it was from!!!

Temp950106187509203 · March 2009

smismar:
Now, we've been calling her Hedwig (NOT our chosen name). It was the utterly worst name that my mother suggested and it's stuck as a nn.

This cracks me up. My mom called me Roscoe in utero for similar reasons.

Embers · March 2009

We call the baby Peep.

I remember reading in one of those weekly PG update newsletters that the baby was the size of a marshmallow Peep. I thought it was hysterically funny and it just stuck around.

BrideBuddies · March 2009

Funny. We just had this discussion over dinner tonight.

So far, it's Peanut, but that's kinda common and boring.

DH mentioned he once heard of someone with the given name of Cricket. That might stick.

thaira · March 2009

we either refer to him or her as the fruit of the week or lil' G...as our last name begins with G.

Becky262 · March 2009

I've been calling the baby Aberdeen Lulu Beans, usually just Bean (I think people think I'm crazy enough for just talking about Bean lol)

Our baby was conceived days after I finished the Seattle Marathon. I joked that we must be having a grungy little WTO protestor because Seattle got my eggs all fired up (I ovulated 3 days early and our timing was horrible but it worked lol).

Recently, DH has started complaining that it's not really a "bean" anymore but a real baby. I offered to start calling it Cletus the Fetus, but DH didn't seem to approve lol

rebus82 · March 2009

We call our baby Cupcake, because I bake a lot of them.?

ErinInVA · March 2009

She used to be Monkey inside me. Now that we have her, SO refers to her as Rascal and to me she is either Dragon (oh such funny noises), Little Drunken Sailor (wait until LO has milk running down her chin and her head is still a little floppy) or Doodlebug.?

mrs.officeryum · March 2009

She was the little Alien (our last name is partially a name of a planet) We didn't find out the sex either.

Megan.10.06 · March 2009

We use Spawn. It came out one day in the first tri - I was so sick, plus had HORRID heartburn and gas. TMI I know, but my butt literally burned when I farted LOL!

I turned to my husband and says that my farts and burps burn so bad, I was convinced my womb was the depths of hell and I was carrying a devil spawn. Both of us cracked up laughing so hard we were in tears.

Now if I talk about his room, his clothes, anything that is his, I will say "Cole's"... but if I talk about HIM, I still say spawn!

lbap · March 2009

We call our baby Cornflake. I don't remember how it started, but now even all of the family uses this name as well, so hopefully it won't stick once we reveal the real name and sex at birth!

ExpatFamily06 · March 2009

We call ours Skeletor lol

matt and lori · March 2009

Yeah, we've been using the fruit of the week so far too - we're in the green olive week - DH wanted to stick with OLIVE for the rest of the pregnancy but I wasnt too thrilled with that - though next week is prune and olive does seem better than prune!

maiziejenga · March 2009

Before I knew about this site, we started calling the baby "Bump" and it stuck...

brideofscowboy · March 2009

Baby-T or my wombmate

DarcyLongfellow · March 2009

Mostly just "the baby" before we found out whether it was a boy or a girl. Now we'll usually say "Baby Abigail."

My parents, though, refer to her as Kumquat. I was sending them the Baby Center emails every week which compare the baby to a piece of fruit. They decided they like Kumquat best, so they're sticking with it. It cracks me up.

still_a_bride · March 2009

My husband just told me that the singer Toby Mac received that nn (Toby) when he was still in the womb because he was due in October. It's kind of unisex, I've actually met a couple of women named that. I think it's a cute name and a neat association with the month of October, which I'm guessing is when you're due. :-)

emmasue18 · March 2009

We call our baby nugget. That is what it looks like right now! Sometimes peanut or monkey, too!

Soon2BMrsN · March 2009

Since we found out it's a boy, we've been calling him by our top name choice (haven't decided 100% yet). We don't plan to tell anyone else his name before birth, so we only call him that when we're at home. Otherwise, we still just say "the baby."

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