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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?

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MagicSteaks · 18/11/2024 23:21

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Blondeshavemorefun · 18/11/2024 23:19

Bubs

Incakewetrust · 18/11/2024 23:18

We mostly referred to it as the bump or the baby. Occasionally bean.

Changeofusernameyetagain · 18/11/2024 23:18

Ours was ' the baby ' but then he was born it was a weird transition to calling him by his name. It's all a bit nebulous before they're here! A friend's
DC to be was called 'bumper' which I liked!

JubileeJuice · 18/11/2024 23:17

Mine was The Unborn

TeabySea · 18/11/2024 23:17

The bump, the bean, the parasite, the entity, thing. I used all at some point.

Merryoldgoat · 18/11/2024 23:17

I called mine ‘The Bun’

spiderlight · 18/11/2024 23:14

Ours was called Bod.

hollymeetsivy · 18/11/2024 23:11

Bubba

Changeyourfuckingcar · 18/11/2024 23:09

My now-3yo was bean from very early on and still is now but this time around, I’m ever so boring and it’s just Bump or Baby!

BrunetteHarpy · 18/11/2024 23:09

Ours was called The Baby. With capitals.

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 18/11/2024 23:08

My eldest was puzzle.
Second was lumpy.

hereismydog · 18/11/2024 23:06

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

I read that in Blackadder’s voice Grin

Wherethewildthingsfart · 18/11/2024 23:06

Mine were called Prawn, Squid, oiseau and bean.

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

hereismydog · 18/11/2024 22:59

We’ve nicknamed ours Parsley!

They started kicking properly and I told DP to say hello, and it instantly reminded us of this episode of The Mighty Boosh Grin so they are just called Parsley now. 3 and a bit weeks to go until they have a ‘real’ name!

What to call an unborn child?
MasterBeth · 18/11/2024 22:58

Suzuki76 · 18/11/2024 22:31

Mine was called Jürgen. Guess which football team we support.

Tottenham, after Klinsmann.

Wildywondrous · 18/11/2024 22:58

We called her the baby until we found out her sex then called her by the name we'd chosen.
We initially planned to use a different name each week off our list to see which one felt right but the first one stuck

CatCaretaker · 18/11/2024 22:55

We have a nickname for the bump, a real human name, and the name that we have been calling our hoped for future child for the last few years. It won't be her name when she's born though (we have yet to decide on that!).

Noshadealltea · 18/11/2024 22:37

We called her Skringle Skrangle 🤷🏼‍♀️. Then later on by her name.

Plastictrees · 18/11/2024 22:36

Mine was seedlet at first, followed by munchkin 😂Munchkin stuck, I still call him it!

Jollyjoy · 18/11/2024 22:35

I used to like looking up what size of fruit they were each week. You could call them grape, kumquat etc?! I don’t know if I called the baby much in the first trimester, it wasn’t til they moved, early on it’s more just me being pregnant. But I forget.

FlyingHighFlyingLow · 18/11/2024 22:35

Bump, wiggle-butt, hiccup-monster, bladder-crusher, squishy

All used depending on his actions that day 😅

Hemorrhoids · 18/11/2024 22:35

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justanotherlaura · 18/11/2024 22:35

Ours was called 'the parasite', I was very ill in pregnancy and it was just in jest :)