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What to call an unborn child?

115 replies

Damage · 18/11/2024 22:27

I am 10 weeks pregnant.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm finding it difficult to know what to call my unborn child at this stage. It doesn't feel right to call it a baby, child or even fetus.

Any suggestions?

OP posts:
alwaysnapping · 19/11/2024 10:52

Sprog.

Greentreesandbushes · 19/11/2024 10:41

I called mine Buster

Manyshelves · 19/11/2024 10:40

Snoop, as in Dogg

i can’t remember exactly why, but it did lead to Tales from the crib 😀

zingally · 19/11/2024 10:37

Both of ours were Bump, "How's Bump today?"

When our DS was born and given to DH for the first time, the first thing he said was "Hello Bump!" Which still makes us chuckle.

IVFKinster · 19/11/2024 10:37

I called mine whatever the pregnancy app says it was at the time.
The pea, the pear, the banana etc. Just for fun and because what do you call them otherwise? When they started kicking the crap out of me I called them "the baby".

Oneearringlost · 19/11/2024 10:32

"It", for us, I'm afraid.

ChocolateTelephone · 19/11/2024 10:32

I called mine Jimmy the Feet.

Cheesetoastiees · 19/11/2024 10:31

Mine was little pea or the baby!

GiddyRobin · 19/11/2024 10:29

Mine were both "Thing" right up until they emerged! Still call them that now sometimes, it makes them giggle.

Whoiam · 19/11/2024 10:29

Fetus is the Latin word for baby.

Toddlerteaplease · 19/11/2024 10:27

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 18/11/2024 23:04

Peanut. I had one of those apps that tells you what fruit they're the same size as each week, and when I first started using it she was a peanut.

Now she's called Bob. Sometimes with a blackadder voice, which she doesn't understand yet Grin

Just imagining the black adder voice. Hilarious. 😂😂😂

SleepFinally · 19/11/2024 10:11

My babies were both 'Bob' when I was pregnant! When they were born they were called 'the Bobs' sometimes because we had got used to calling them Bob when I was pregnant! (we didn't know their sex till they were born! so it was a unisex 'Bob'!!) Even now (oldest is at secondary!) my DC still get referred to as 'the Bobs' between DH and I occasionally! (e.g. 'who's taking the Bobs to football?') 🙂👍

Makingchocolatecake · 19/11/2024 10:07

Mine were (are!) both Pickle

Matildahoney · 19/11/2024 09:58

Our first was sweet pea, and our second popps (Poppy seed) as that's what size they were on the comparison charts when we found out I was pregnant

DieStrassensindimmernass · 19/11/2024 09:49

Bean
Peanut
Berry
Bump
Seedling

mondaytosunday · 19/11/2024 09:41

I think I called it the baby. As soon as we knew the sex we gave it a name.

Flutterbees · 19/11/2024 09:37

My older children referred to my third as 'Baby Bear', it stuck.

Needanewname42 · 19/11/2024 09:34

My nephew was Grape 🍇
Mine was Baby Dudelet, even once they were born the Dudelet name sort of stuck

Zoetrope1 · 19/11/2024 09:27

Cletus (the fetus)!

JumpstartMondays · 19/11/2024 09:27

MrsTerryPratchett · 18/11/2024 22:31

I like a diminutive of a family name. Or a cute word that pops up. Squish, Noodle, Bean, whatever feels nice. A name but not the name.

Same. Squidge and Bean were mine.
My friend's was Emby (sounds cuter than embryo)

1bub1pup · 19/11/2024 09:24

We called ours egglet

Ladyj84 · 19/11/2024 09:22

The minute that egg is fertilizes it's the start of baby so not sure why you would want to call baby anything else

romdowa · 19/11/2024 09:05

It's the small human! That's what ds1 was and same with this one . Occasionally it's the parasite when I'm very unwell

MsSquiz · 19/11/2024 09:03

DD1 was just "the bump"
DD2 was "bingo" as DD1 became a huge bluey fan so named DD2 after Bluey's little sister.

They still refer to each other as Bluey and Bingo now

ChannelFiveDrama · 19/11/2024 09:00

The squatter?