Calling LO by name

Dreamsicle23 · March 2010

For those of you who have picked out a name, do you now use it when talking to/about your LO? Or do you still just say "the baby"?

MotherBucker · March 2010

We mostly use his name now.

dixielane · March 2010

Hubby always says her name, I slip and say baby alot!

mandyschobelock · March 2010

We still call her, the baby, and it feels kinda strange, but at this time it feels strange to call her by her name too, for some reason. I usually say "she....did this, and that".

jodi_p · March 2010

I call her by her name

, So does my husband.

Auddie2122 · March 2010

I use their nicknames sometimes..Jag and Livi. But most of the time I end up saying "he did this.. she's doing that".

MrsBraun · March 2010

I feel bad because a lot of the time I refer to him/her as "it"! We're Team Green so I don't have too many options other than "it" and "baby".

samakasrc · March 2010

My boyfriend always uses her name, but I still refer to her as "baby" or "the baby"... I'm not sure why though cause I'm the one that originally picked out her name

StevieJo · March 2010

Mostly use her name.

sarasek · March 2010

We used her name now all the time. My parents do too.

Jen_3334 · March 2010

I still call the baby "him" or "he" even though we are 99.9999% sure we are naming him Ben. It just seems weird to call him by his name when I really haven't seen him yet!

PenelopelePhew · March 2010

It totally creeps me out when parents call the baby its name and it isn't born yet. Always has.

scoutkate · March 2010

We call her by her name. In fact that's how we knew we had chosen the perfect name--it was so natural and right to refer to her that way.

Our friends, family, co-workers, etc are calling her by her name, as well. When I go into work each morning, my co-workers always ask, "And how is Betsy this morning?" They never ask how I'm doing!

LovePink2850 · March 2010

I say baby a lot mainly because I'm not 100% sold on the name (Logan). My DH calls him by his name all the time.

canamama · March 2010

I call him "baby" because I am not really sure about the name and I don't want to get tired of it before I deliver! This is what happened with my first two kids... I was set on a name and changed my mind at the last minute.

serarose · March 2010

We're a mix, but I still lean mostly toward "the baby." I think for me it will feel more natural to call her by name when she's here. (On the outside, that is.)

RachaelMarieB · March 2010

We do refer to him by name. But not 100% of the time. He's still baby boy and little one. Occasionally Bean, which was what we called him when we found out we were pregnant. But it was really hard to get into a habit of using his name, because it was so foreign to our tongues. HaHa.

koat · March 2010

We're team green, so we use "the baby" a lot. "It" has been forbidden. I hate it. We have a nickname for the baby that we use a lot too.

AnnaBanana0327 · March 2010

We usually use her name for just "she/her". I want to use her name and make sure it still feels right after using it for a little while. I don't want to figure out I am getting tired of it when she is like 12 weeks old. LOL

Mouseygail · March 2010

DH always uses his name...I tend to go back and forth

FemmeNat01 · March 2010

When I am home, I will refer to them by name but when we are with family, I have to say baby A or baby B. Everyone believes that we are team green so if we said their names, they would all know.

Brougham7-15-06 · March 2010

When we found out with DS we typically referred to him by his name.

GatorMrs_Esq · March 2010

My husband calls the baby Cruella. Needless to say, we have not decided on a name yet. Stick out tongue

Roxpup · March 2010

mandyschobelock:
We still call her, the baby, and it feels kinda strange, but at this time it feels strange to call her by her name too, for some reason. I usually say "she....did this, and that".

This, it feels weird to call him baby but it really feels weird to call him his name. I'm more likely to write his name to someone rather than to say it outloud.
Its still all surreal for me, and although this pregnancy was planned, I'm having a hard time dealing with my changing body, hormones, and I'm extremely anxious and scared about parenting. I haven't come to grips that I will be 'mom' and DH will be 'dad'.
That sounds awful.

jjcrew2006 · March 2010

canamama:
I call him "baby" because I am not really sure about the name and I don't want to get tired of it before I deliver! This is what happened with my first two kids... I was set on a name and changed my mind at the last minute.

This!

Stephanie2167 · March 2010

I call her little girl. But my friends and family call her Courtney.

Celtic Ember · March 2010

We call him Sprog. We think we have a name, but we won't know until we meet him. Sprog came about when I was saying 'Spawn' and thinking 'Progeny'- in the middle of an argument with DH. "Well, baby is your sprog too!!!" He's been Sprog ever since.

MrsEmm · March 2010

mostly his name because we call my littlest one 'the baby'

jlslaugh · March 2010

We use both his name and "the baby".

MEJ2008 · March 2010

When we found out Stella was a girl, DH constantly talked to my belly and would say "hi little Stella". In the moments after she was born, she was on the warming bed and DH said her name and she turned and looked for him. It was so amazing.