To be annoyed by people referring to "Baby"?

[AGhoulfromtheCrypt]

Rather than "the baby"?

I've been for lunch with a pregnant friend today and it grated on me every time - "When baby arrives", "We've got everything ready for baby" etc. I know she can't say he or she yet, but "baby" just sounds a bit twee.

I'm perfectly ready to be told IABU!

Dd was known as 'the beast' for the first few months but yes at least I used the definite article

YANBU, hate 'baby' without the 'the'. I take it that the ones who find you petty are the ones that use 'baby' in this way?
Actually quite like 'bub' as a nn for baby though, without the 'the'

It could be so much worse she could be calling it 'bean' or 'pickle' or even worse her partner could be talking about 'their' pregnancy.

Yes, and when people say "mum" as well.

My old therapist used to always say "mum". "When "mum" did that, how did you feel?"

"Annoyed, like I do when you don't say "your mum"."

I hate "bean". A lot of idiots call it a "bean". Like mr bean.

My friend called her unborn baby bean, then when he was born they used it as a middle name so his name is John George bean surname (not actually John George surname but I'm not naming him). Actually, iirc his surname is double barreled as his parents aren't married and both wanted to use their name.

I have another friend who's unborn son was 'the parasite' that made me feel

Ugh. Really IneedAgoldennickname? Really?

Yes really, which one are you shuddering at?

the parasite is awful!

I think from now on I'm going to use The Unborn One, that's brilliant.

Pickles, that's what I thought! Like people who can't write out swear words in full. Probably makes them feel "icky".

I accept that in the grand scheme of things it's a pretty minor annoyance; however, it's an annoyance nonetheless.

Ineedagoldennickname, I had a friend who cheerfully referred to the day when she would "have this thing cut out of me" - pregnancy affects us all differently I suppose!

YANBU. I hate 'Baby' too. And no, I'm not the kind of person who goes through life looking for things to wind me up!

My DP hated when my SIL did that. I didn't give two hoots, but was amazed DP (a mild mannered,mellow guy) could get so het up about something :D

I have a friend who has ALWAYS referred to her son as "the wee man". eg I was just bathing the wee man, i bought this for the wee man etc. The wee man is now nearly 8 and only gets called his name in school.

Annoying. Don't like it either.

Yep, totally know where you are coming from with the 'baby' thing. Midwives seem to do it a lot.

It always used to annoy me when people referred to someone's mum as just 'mum' instead of 'X's mum'.

However, I am now a teacher and I do this all the time when speaking to colleagues 'Oh yes, X is a lovely little boy. Watch out for mum though, she is a bit of a pain'

I haaaaaaaaaaate it too. My awful sister used to call her 3 month old baby "baby". So bloody irritating. Having said that, she was the first person evr to have a baby and subsequently be a working mother, so i emphasise

totally reasonable for your and mine unreasonableness. Shoot da fuckahs!!

Emphasise?!?!?! Empathise, even

YANBU. I'm afraid I'm another one who called DS 'it' in utero. And it took a while to start using his name rather than calling him "the baby" even after he was born - somehow his name seemed too big for him when he was tiny. We use it now though!

It's better than saying 'it' or 'baba'

Oh yes! I hate bubu, booboo and any other fucking ridiculous nickname for an unborn/born child. I've had to sit and grimace inwardly through months of friends/family members reffering to their bumps as 'chicken' , 'peanut', 'melon', dino and other stupid oh-so-original names

I never called my DS the baby when he was a baby, he was always my son.

DD (who is now 10yo is still known as Baby Daughter )

And WRT to the "Mum" title.
Many years ago I used to work in a Health Centre where the staff were told to say 'mum' not Mrs/Miss because there were too many complaints.

Yanbu. But then I hate twee words/expressions.

"but why can't you say the baby, or my baby or our baby...

you don't say 'brother is going to come round today' or 'father is hungry' you say 'my brother' or 'your father'."

yes you do? I will say to my kids, Daddy is hungry, daddy is tired, mummy is tired, bhaji (sister) is upstairs,