Team Greenies: How do you refer to baby? He/She, They, whatever you're feelin' that day?

MrsRahl · January 2014

Team Greenies: How do you refer to baby? He/She, They (for 1), whatever you're feelin' that day? I recently used "they" with a singular antecedent in a fb post and the grammar police came patrolling. I find saying he/she annoying. What do you do? Are you a grammar policewoman

EDIT: to add I don't really like using "it" (just sounds like some weird alien or a clown in there) and when I say "he" or "she" people assume we know the sex...

fferreiralynn · January 2014

I want a boy! We are waiting. I always refer to my LO as he. People get excited when I say 'he' because they think we know the sex. Then I say 'oh no we are waiting. We're just hoping' lol the look I get is priceless. I don't feel the need to know. It's fun to have everyone guess. The people closest to me are having the toughest time not knowing.

roundthree24 · January 2014

Like @lalala8 we say "it" or "the baby." Also voted for "they" but don't actually use that.

erind228 · January 2014

I say the baby or she. I only use she because that is how my 3yo daughter refers to the baby, and it has kind of stuck.

MrsRahl · January 2014

clarabear1126 said:

Like @lalala8 we say "it" or "the baby." Also voted for "they" but don't actually use that.

So say how would you fill in this sentence. "The baby is doing fine. ______ has been kicking me a lot lately?" I hate calling them/he/she "It." haha

nunzchucks · January 2014

lalala8 said:

Um.. I call it "it" or "baby".

Hell, I still call my 3 year old "it" sometimes (as a joke, but still...)

ETA: I voted "they" because that was the closest, but I never say "they" specifically

This is us, too. I feel bad saying it, but I do.

nunzchucks · January 2014

lalala8 said:

Um.. I call it "it" or "baby".

Hell, I still call my 3 year old "it" sometimes (as a joke, but still...)

ETA: I voted "they" because that was the closest, but I never say "they" specifically

This is us, too. I feel bad saying it, but I do.

k2k2tog · January 2014

It's an 'it'. But, I picked he/she because I sometimes do that too.

Never they. The word nerd in me won't let me. I don't care of this is becoming more acceptable in every day language. It's wrong. There's only one baby in there!

Edit because I hate finding basic grammatical mistakes in my own writing...

MissBHaven1024 · January 2014

I'm no longer a Team Greenie (I didn't have the willpower to keep it going), so I didn't vote. But when we didn't know the sex of the baby, we referred to him as "the baby". It always irked me when DH would say "it", and we didn't use "he/she", since we didn't know. "The baby" was a safe reference.

SarainColorado2013 · January 2014

I say Cletus the Fetus mostly...stole that from someone in here and it makes me laugh.

MrsRahl · January 2014

SarainColorado2013 said:

I say Cletus the Fetus mostly...stole that from someone in here and it makes me laugh.

hahaha I think I've found my answer!! =D>

roundthree24 · January 2014

MrsRahl said:

clarabear1126 said:

Like @lalala8 we say "it" or "the baby." Also voted for "they" but don't actually use that.

So say how would you fill in this sentence. "The baby is doing fine. ______ has been kicking me a lot lately?" I hate calling them/he/she "It." haha

I guess I'd say "It" right there? I feel kinda bad but then I get over it pretty quick haha. I don't think babies care what we call them while they're swimming around in their happy place. We'll use the correct pronoun when the time comes

snowpants · January 2014

I usually say baby.

"Baby measured great at the ultrasound!" or "It's baby's fault I ate that ice cream."

Sometimes I say Ninja Baby.

"Ninja Baby likes to stay perfectly still then spring out and kick without warning."

arekeweg · January 2014

KrystaJ said:

I try not to say it or refer to it by he/she because people freak out. I try to say baby J or the baby, but I slip up.

This is what I do too (but with a different last initial)!

TonyaCody06 · January 2014

none of the above. I have calling it Baby #4

Tried thinking of a cool nickname and couldn't come up with anything.

Rosebud2587 · January 2014

SS: I say Baby or Pipsqueak.

Nancy1250 · January 2014

Da' baby

gregsgurl81304 · January 2014

I'm not team green this time around but with DS I called him Logan/Hannah, the two names we liked at the time, or if I was talking and referring to the baby I usually just said the baby.