to think this is a revolting term?

[Mibby]

I was just talking to a neighbour who informed me her friend has just had a 'blubba bubba'. Meaning a new baby who was 8lb 6oz. Is it me? or is this just an awful thing to call a baby?

[HeifferunderConstruction]

I'd probably laugh like 'what?'

'babbi' instead of baby is also a shootable offence

[Vallhala]

There are worse things a person could say. The spelling of "blubber" offends me more than the expression though I'm flinching at "bubba" too.

If she'd have said "A blubber bubba" I'd have only had one thing to flinch at. :o

[planetpotty]

YANBU

Put simply this makes me :(

[Rowena8482]

oooerrr! My smallest one was 8lb 4.5oz

[worraliberty]

Aww I think it's quite cute

[aldiwhore]

Blubba bubba? Could almost understand if the baby was 18lbs!! But 8? That's within normal healthy range isn't it?

The term doesn't offend me but I'd probably judge anyone who used it to be a bit of a knob.

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

Never heard that phrase in my life. Did you ask neighbour if they were auditioning for Bill and Ben?.....

[Crosshair]

I was 9lb 7, hate to think what I was called. :o

[workedoutforthebest]

Oh, I thought you meant 'blubba' as in a crying baby. I didn't realise you meant a big baby!

It's a bit vicki pollardish but endearing at the same time

[aldiwhore]

I guess I wouldn't dream of referring to a smaller baby as skinny, so I don't like the blubber terminology, but I'm an ex'fat and sensitive!

My eldest was 7.5lbs, very long, quite skinny (overbaked) and resembled a rubber chicken. My youngest, bang on time, 8.4lbs, short rugby ball squidgy plump thing.

I think its ME who's maybe BU!!! I don't like the term blubba.

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

There's scope for more variants.... Would a particularly pink, squashy baby be a 'Hubba Bubba'? A baby that doesn't like sailing might be a 'Land-lubber Bubba'... And the baby that falls off the changing mat without injury might be a 'Rubber Bubba'.

[GrownUpNow]

I prefer the term chunky monkey for my son who was born 9 lbs 9oz. In fact I call them both that now still, but it's an affectionate term, whereas I'd associate blubber with being more offensive. Dunno why.

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

It is the use of the word 'bubba' that offends me most in all that.

Hideous expression.

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

A baby that looks a lot like other babies... 'I can't beleive it's not Bubba'

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

A big eater... 'Loves his Grubba Bubba'

[dickiedavisthunderthighs]

Bubba
Bubs
Babby

All make me ACTUALLY VOMITOUS

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

Cogito enough!

[Illegitimate]

Bubba shudder

My baby was nearly 9lbs and is known as 'the tank' or the big giant fat hippo'

[madmomma]

fat packet!

[Fatshionista]

DD1 was 9lb 8oz and lovely. Just called her DD1.
DD2 was 8lb 11oz and a chunk. I call her DD2. DP calls her 'Chunk' or 'Tubs'. To be fair you need a map to manoeuvre her rolls and she's now 29lb at 9 months.

Are Chunk and Tubs bad?

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

My Dad referred once to naked baby DS (who was a podgy little thing) as 'an oven ready turkey'..... and he wasn't that wide of the mark.

[OTheHugeRaveningWolef]

A pretty baby - a hubba bubba?

[ScarletLady01]

That's not particularly big is it? My DD was 10lbs but she's very long as well. Big babies rule.

I'm not a massive fan of Bubba/Bubby etc either.