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What to call an unborn child?

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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:

xILikeJamx · 19/11/2024 08:57

We called ours Joan (turned out to be a boy!)

We had been watching repeats of Friends and there's one where Phoebe is like an investment banker or something and has an assistant called something like Barbie and Phoebe says "What kind of name is Barbie?! From now on your name is Joan" and that kind of stuck!

professionaloverthinker · 19/11/2024 08:55

I actually don't think I referred to if as anything at this stage lol didn't really talk about it much. Now I'm 28 weeks and we say she or the baby

OldTinHat · 19/11/2024 08:51

Mine was called Bean. He's almost 26 now and I still use that as his nickname!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/11/2024 08:48

Gdd1 was known as The Gruffalo!

ClairDeLaLune · 19/11/2024 08:40

alanthecat · 18/11/2024 23:25

Ours was known as Pitt the Embryo.

Blackadder fans!

Mine was just the baby - boring!

jellybe · 19/11/2024 08:36

Bean sprout- first scan was early and DD looked like a bean sprout so that's what she got called throughout the pregnancy.

Cosmicdreams · 19/11/2024 08:23

I called him squiggle as he was a squiggle on the screen, then when he was 20 weeks and found out he was a boy we named him the name he has now ❤️ I knew my names before I even got pregnant so I knew his name x

sel2223 · 19/11/2024 08:23

Mine was 'the bump' for a long time

Then 'baby'

With DD1 it's 'baby sister'

Now we are thinking of names so trying different ones out every few days

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 19/11/2024 08:21

Newboy. Gender non-specific.

ByHardyRubyEagle · 19/11/2024 08:19

Currently also 10 weeks. Don’t know what I call them right now. The water bear? The blob? The bean?

LoquaciousPineapple · 19/11/2024 08:17

I just said baby. Even though from a scientific and moral standpoint I didn't consider it to be one.

warofthetimemachines · 19/11/2024 08:14

Our little energy vampire. First trimester exhaustion is hard.

SofandaCox · 19/11/2024 08:12

Mine were prawns.

Im 31 and my parents still call me Bean.

tb4122 · 19/11/2024 08:11

Currently my twins are "the parasites" because I'm feeling very unwell and they are draining the life from me (and I am joking!). My son never really had a name, just "the baby".

UrbanSquirrel · 19/11/2024 08:11

Oh @teaandtoastwithmarmite ours is Smudge too! I thought I was being original 😂

Back in the day, I was Spike, apparently.

Miloarmadillo2 · 19/11/2024 08:10

Kevin

SofandaCox · 19/11/2024 08:07

VivianLea · 18/11/2024 23:35

For me it was the baby. My sister refused to say that and instead would only refer to him as "fetish" because "it's not a really baby yet, it's just a fetish". No, we don't get on.

Surely you mean fetus?

Catza · 19/11/2024 08:05

In what sort of context you will need to call it anything? "I am pregnant" covers most occasions, I would have thought.

Topseyt123 · 19/11/2024 00:07

Mine was just Baby, The Baby, Babba or Babs.

I'm highly imaginative that way. 🤣

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 18/11/2024 23:52

Whatever fruit size they were that week

KnickerlessParsons · 18/11/2024 23:44

Mine was called Dodie

Scampuss · 18/11/2024 23:43

Mine was the 'blasted cyst' (from blastocyst).