What's your baby's nickname?

megngregk · June 2013

We've been referring to our LO was Lil Nugget or Lil Nuggers since the night we found out.

What do you call your baby-to-be?

mrsjenni · June 2013

I call the baby IV. Hopefully it's a girl with that nickname, ha! But I call the babe IV because it's baby 4. Creative, I know.

JaneW2 · June 2013

Mouse, or just "Baby," as in, "Baby wants juice and eggs for breakfast," or "Baby doesn't like this bus ride."

aessary03 · June 2013

Dorky, I know .....

.... but we call baby "stallion" because I dyed my hair blonde (just dyed it back dark brown yesterday) and my hubby told me I looked like Daenerys from Game of Thrones. And her baby in the book was The Stallion Who Mounts the World. So yea .... stallion it is.

Cue nerd music.

0hkgbs · June 2013

Usually whatever fruit coordinates with how many weeks I am or little bean.

fredtheredhead2 · June 2013

Ever since our first our ultrasound our little one has been known as Blip! Even our parents call baby Blip, it's cute.

megngregk · June 2013

aessary03:
Dorky, I know .....
.... but we call baby "stallion" because I dyed my hair blonde (just dyed it back dark brown yesterday) and my hubby told me I looked like Daenerys from Game of Thrones. And her baby in the book was The Stallion Who Mounts the World. So yea .... stallion it is.
Cue nerd music.

I highly enjoy this.

peanutmuse · June 2013

We're not cutesy people. We don't really call it anything yet. Maybe after my next u/s I'll start to feel attached and we'll come up with something. I still feel far too nervous and emotionally detached.

BabyChill · June 2013

We call ours Little Bit. My brother has the rest of my family calling it Ink Spot because he said that is what it looked like on the u/s pic that I sent him.

LauraMcAndrew · June 2013

My DH and I were discussing this and the one we could agree on was peanut.

Mnelli14 · June 2013

Calling ours little blobby... Since it was just a tiny blob on first u/s

aessary03 · June 2013

peanut+muse:
We're not cutesy people. We don't really call it anything yet. Maybe after my next u/s I'll start to feel attached and we'll come up with something. I still feel far too nervous and emotionally detached.

I completely get this. While I was relieved to see a healthy baby growing in me, it wasn't until the 2nd ultrasound that I finally let myself get attached and think this is really going to happen! It was until after that we really started referring to the baby as a nickname.

FX for a great next ultrasound!

SvedkaStoli · June 2013

DH uses hugabub, I don't use anything yet.

KristaBelieve · June 2013

That's so funny, my DH and I just talked about this last night! We like bb for baby bear.

folkfemme · June 2013

"Baby"

or, "The Baby".

MissMandyD · June 2013

Me too!

0hkgbs:
Usually whatever fruit coordinates with how many weeks I am or little bean.

OSUWifey09 · June 2013

This one's Sweet Pea. We had Peanut, Little Bean, and now Sweet Pea. I picked Sweet Pea because I'm kinda hoping this baby is a girl, and that just sounds more girly.

Tink1704 · June 2013

For our previous mc we had nicknamed the baby "baby turniphead" from Lost. This time we are hesitant to get too attached yet.

jms1374 · June 2013

Since I got pregnant from an FET, we have always referred to the baby as our totsicle.

genaruthp · June 2013

No nicknames with DD, and none so far w/ this one. Just "the baby"

Goldiva · June 2013

We call it by its unisex name, Golden. I have a pet peeve when ppl call babies "the baby" when the baby has a name.

karah4816 · June 2013

We just say the babies, as in the babies don't think they like this food.

KaloramaKB · June 2013

We also just say babies or the twins. Not very original, I know...

Dishylo · June 2013

JaneW2:
Mouse, or just "Baby," as in, "Baby wants juice and eggs for breakfast," or "Baby doesn't like this bus ride."

This!

CanadianGamerMom · June 2013

Before our first ultrasound we would refer to it as whatever fruit/veggie it was the size of. Our first u/s, the baby looked like a duck so we call it ducky now.

MamaBookworm · June 2013

aessary03:
Dorky, I know .....
.... but we call baby "stallion" because I dyed my hair blonde (just dyed it back dark brown yesterday) and my hubby told me I looked like Daenerys from Game of Thrones. And her baby in the book was The Stallion Who Mounts the World. So yea .... stallion it is.
Cue nerd music.

Haha, huge GOT nerds here too, and we call it "the stallion" too! I thought we were so original *le sigh*

peanutmuse · June 2013

Goldiva:
We call it by its unisex name, Golden. I have a pet peeve when ppl call babies "the baby" when the baby has a name.

So is it still a pet peeve when people don't have a name yet? Or don't even know the sex? I mean, it is a baby. It's not a nugget, or a peanut, or a bean, or anything else. But you pick "baby" as the name you have the pet peeve for? Strange.

adunkin · June 2013

We're very unoriginal and don't really do nicknames. We've got "baby". We aren't planning to find out the gender so this might not change until we've got said baby in our arms.

squeakystarling · June 2013

For the past two or three years, when we've talked about our someday child, we have alternated between a couple of different bird names in Icelandic (we live in Iceland; my husband is an Icelander)--one masculine, one feminine. There are a number of bird names that double as human names in Icelandic, but these two are not among them! I'm not telling you what they are because who knows, they might just end up sticking...

alinafed · June 2013

J bean short for jelly bean :

peanutmuse · June 2013

squeakystarling:
I'm not telling you what they are because who knows, they might just end up sticking...

Are you afraid an internet stranger is going to steal your names?

squeakystarling · June 2013

peanut+muse:
squeakystarling:
I'm not telling you what they are because who knows, they might just end up sticking...
Are you afraid an internet stranger is going to steal your names?

No, worse--I'm afraid an internet stranger is going to make fun of our names!

peanutmuse · June 2013

squeakystarling:
peanut+muse:
squeakystarling:
I'm not telling you what they are because who knows, they might just end up sticking...
Are you afraid an internet stranger is going to steal your names?
No, worse--I'm afraid an internet stranger is going to make fun of our names!

Fair enough. Not gonna lie, it could happen.

nolagal79 · June 2013

I call mine Prometheus - yes from the prequel to the Alien movie series! lol My DH has also adapted to calling it Prometheus

Every time my mom hears me call the baby that she laughs and tells me that I have to stop. I must admit - it has stuck so I don't know what we will switch to!

jldubb0626 · June 2013

This one is Yoda. My favorite character from Star Wars. DS was Spock because he had to "Live long and prospure."

Yeah - we're a family of geeks over here.

peanutmuse · June 2013

mckeefisher:
I call mine Prometheus - yes from the prequel to the Alien movie series! lol

See now when I hear Prometheus, I think of Greek mythology.

nolagal79 · June 2013

peanut+muse:
mckeefisher:
I call mine Prometheus - yes from the prequel to the Alien movie series! lol
See now when I hear Prometheus, I think of Greek mythology.

"Known for his humanity and for being a champion of humanity" I'll take that too!

But the more I read about it ugh I'll stick with the movie analogy or come up with a new name lol

LexGator · June 2013

genaruthp:
No nicknames with DD, and none so far w/ this one. Just "the baby"

Same here. It might sound weird, but I don't find myself referring to the baby much at all. We are still not sharing with people, and when we do talk about it, DD starts saying "Mommy baby in belly" or asks to "Pet the baby" and rubs my stomach. So, I think I'm subconsciously trying to minimize talk so that she doesn't spill our secret. I guess maybe a code name would work...

ac1259 · June 2013

This is weird but with my DD I told my DH that it was like I had a bug in my belly when I would feel the little movements when she was big enough. And that name stuck and goes with her name (Bethany). So even out in real life I call her "Bethany bug" ...which my mom acts like is so offensive..but I like it and DH even calls her that sometimes. This LO doesn't have a nickname yet, usually we just say "baby" or "baby brother or sister". We are so not team green, I can't wait to find out what this baby is so we can just call him or her by the name we pick!