how did you refer to your baby when pg?

s+m · December 2009

All this baby name talk and jr/II reminded me of how we referred to our baby while I was pregnant. We called her "Steffie Jr" long before we knew she was she and then it really just stuck once we discovered her gender. What was your baby's nickname?

pixy_stix · December 2009

Elmer. :op DH has been saying "THE baby".

papagena · December 2009

just 'baby'.

ETA: It was actually hard to start calling him by his name once he came. For awhile, I felt terrible, because whenever I referred to him, it was "DH, can you go get the baby," or "The baby needs changing." It was surprisingly difficult to get used to using his actual name!

Em&B · December 2009

We just called her "baby" until we knew the gender, then mostly we referred to her as "she" until we picked her name, then we called her by her name.

SapphyrEyes · December 2009

This one is 'the girl' or 'alien'. DS was 'alien' or 'parasite' because of how crappy I felt the entire pg. Obviously DS has much sweeter nicknames now for the most part. She will too once she arrives I'm sure.

Soyager · December 2009

We say "the baby" with other people and "sprout" around each other. And I usually say "sprout" on here, too

lar1203 · December 2009

baby, until we found out the gender. then it was Devin.

Alibean · December 2009

We called DS "baby bean" until we knew his gender. Then, DH started calling him Rocket and it stuck for awhile, even after he was born.

We called DD #2 all along. We still call her #2 sometimes, poor thing.

Dobie_Mama · December 2009

DD was "Sonny" until my big u/s. Everyone (but me) was convinced she was a boy.

This baby is just "the baby" or "poor nameless zygote". I guess in a few days he/she can be "poor nameless embryo". lol

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MadameFancyPants · December 2009

We called him Little Napoleon because he was dictating what we ate, what I would wear, when I went to bed and woke up, etc.

papagena · December 2009

jenstiles:
i'm hoping we agree on a definite boy's name before the u/s because so far we are only 100% on the girl's name.

That's how we were with DS, but reversed - we were 100% with a boys name, never really much discussion, and we had so many choices and were still coming up w/ girl's names. My neighbor said we 'knew' it was a boy and thats why that happened.

Mystery2B · December 2009

little one

loregopar · December 2009

papagena:
That's how we were with DS, but reversed - we were 100% with a boys name, never really much discussion, and we had so many choices and were still coming up w/ girl's names. My neighbor said we 'knew' it was a boy and thats why that happened.

Interesting... We had tons of girl names thought out, but we forced ourselves to think of boy names so we had options. And it's a boy!

LO's nickname is Lovebug. Yeah, he's a boy, but it's what I started calling him and it stuck. We won't decide on a name until we meet him, so Lovebug it is!

ChristinaD09 · December 2009

Little toro (Italian for bull, the zodiac sign for our baby)

renee143 · December 2009

slim!

clayswife · December 2009

He was my "little gummy bear" because at 7 weeks we had our first u/s and I couldn't get over the resemblance

Poonico · December 2009

baby girl... we're original right?

sad note... it took me a long time to stop calling her that, lol

babyluv617 · December 2009

Poot

#2 has been Bug or the Boy 2 since we call Declan "the Boy".

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Laroogirl · December 2009

DS was the little bean until we picked his name around 24 weeks or so. I haven't called this one anything yet.

sarahlindsay · December 2009

We've been calling our baby Speck, which is the name my best friend gave to the baby.....it's kind of hilarious, IMO, but it has stuck.

ElloPoppet · December 2009

Now he's usually referred to as Max, but he's been called Peanut, Embryo, Fetus, Parasite, Battery, Babby (google "how is babby formed"), or just The Baby.

goinggreengirl · December 2009

Baby or Little One. When talking to DH about him I would sometimes say your child.

Now that we know gender, we refer to him by name to each other. He's still baby to everyone else since we haven't shared the name.

Alligator · December 2009

"Little One" and then once we found out he was a boy, I started calling him "Little Boy Blue".

Kathzoo · December 2009

fishy and the belly is the fishbowl

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