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What "fun" name did you give your child whilst pregnant?

62 replies

LewishamMum · 06/06/2021 21:54

My DD has a perfectly normal name. But during pregnancy I called her "The Papaya" and made sure everyone else did too. The reason? At the time of my anomaly scan the NHS website said that was her size! (I didn't announce my pregnancy until after that - long story.)

Anyway, just wondered what fun names people had called their own bumps. I was Gary btw!

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DobbieFreeElf · 06/06/2021 22:13

Chunk, every time I started prepping food or clinked a plate getting it out of the cupboard she would start doing the truffle shuffle! (She’s now 7months, weaning and I have yet to find a food she doesn’t like!)

MyMabel · 06/06/2021 22:13

DD was it. I couldn’t stop calling her it.

Even when she was born I kept calling her ‘it’ then kept getting her and the cat mixed up.

UpTheLaganInABubble · 06/06/2021 22:10

The Amazin' Raisin... found out when raisin size and it was an amazing surprise after years of infertility Smile

Idroppedthescrewinthetuna · 06/06/2021 22:09

Dd1 was just baby.

Dd2 squidge.

DD3 was blob. My best mate still calls her blob.
We had a name set for her but when she was born we changed the syllables around to call her a different name. She is 5 now and the original name occasionally still pops out when we call her.

youngestisapsycho · 06/06/2021 22:07

DD2 was known as Noah... someone at work named my bump so that’s what I always called it... I think if she’d have been a boy I would have used the name! 😂

Essexgirlupnorth · 06/06/2021 22:05

Minion

Bluebell9 · 06/06/2021 22:05

DD was pumpkin as her original due date was the 31st October. I still call her my little pumpkin now

AngeloMysterioso · 06/06/2021 22:02

DS was Bean.

DC2 (due late 2021) is Peanut.

I know someone who actually named their child Sharky IRL (I shit you not) because they thought he looked like a shark on his scan.

To be additionally cruel, his middle name is George.

Mrsfrumble · 06/06/2021 22:02

DS was Mos Def for a while, like the rapper / actor, as when we went for the 20 week scan he had his legs akimbo and the sonographer said “ohhh, most definitely a boy!”

GlumyGloomer · 06/06/2021 21:58

TBA (to be announced)

Motherofmonsters · 06/06/2021 21:57

Cletus the fetus Grin

student26 · 06/06/2021 21:54

Squidge!