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?

My 1st was 11lb 2 wonder what she would call him , dp calls ds3 pudgy he was 4 lb born .

8lb 6oz is average size for a full term baby, surely?

I was known as 'The Michelin Baby' because of all my spare tyres and rolls of fat!!

Grrrr - babbie sets my teeth on edge. It's just vile. Likewise "the bab" - as in "let's have a hold of the bab" .

Just typing the words & reading them is giving me palpitations!

BLubba Bubba is I think RUDE as it implies that the child is fat

Ugh.

Every day I am reminded of how much I fucking HATE people.

YANBU, OP.

For a mum or dad to say it affectionately-fine.But from a so-called friend it seems nasty

DS' nickname is Chubzilla

DH refuses to use the local chippy because she calls him "Bab"

I don't think it is a nice term. I do hope the neighbour is a size 0 to be able to call a child that.

a horrible phrase

but surely 8lbs 6 isn't actually that big??? [knows people with 10 and 11lb babies]

YABU. Completely unforgivable...

DS3 was my Chucky Cherub he was almost 10lb born and needed an incubator. They had to wedge him in with a crowbar, greased, and the lid only just to say shut - he looked really really weird beside all the teeny tiny preemies

chunky not chucky - sighhhh

Glad Im NBThatU :) It was partly just the term itself and partly using it to describe a 'normal' weight baby

Also makes me wonder what they called my DD she was 9lb :)

DD was 9lb 9oz and had to go to SCBU for 24 hours due to blood sugars, the staff nearly pissed themselves with excited and said 'We've got a big one, a big one'. They were a little too excited for my liking.

I called her Chunkster, but she's 3 now and tall and athletic no more chunk

I'd consider 'babby' a normal word from various dialects (like 'bairn'), but any variation on 'bubba' makes me go slightly red behind the eyes. I used to be on an expat forum where it seemed that virtually everyone used 'Bubba' or 'Bub' to refer to their babies, unborn or otherwise. 'Blubba bubba' is just gruesome. I'd have to seriously wonder about the mentality of whoever coined that. It has all the wit, charm and size-ism of a Daily Mail headline.

I had 2 x 9lb 10oz babies (and one 7lb 20z) - The two bigger ones were called Chunky Monkey for the first few days of their lives although they werent really chubby, just long :) And Blubber Bubba is horrible so YANBU