...to not give my unborn child a cute nickname...

[Ariel21]

Seriously. I've been calling it "The Foetus".

Anyone else?

I called mine "It" or "The Baby"

Nah sorry, DD was 'Cub' .

I intend any future DC's to be Cubling and Cublet

Yes, occasionally I call it 'The baby" or "parasite"

This one is PS2. DS1 was practice baby (pb), DS2 was practice sibling (ps), hence ps2.

Or yes, if I'm feeling particularly ropey, the parasite.

I agree. It's dire when it gets too cutesy. We just talked about the baby or the bump.

This one is also "baby" or "parasite." No, that's not morning sickness. I'm chundering at your nauseating tweeness.

My sister has been calling it the 'snot prawn' as she said that was most correct in regards to what it looked like. She said she was determined to not go too 'cutesy' and did not ask for the scan to reveal the sex as she hated the idea of everyone buying pink / blue things, so now the snot prawn will have yellow / green things instead.

It's very obvious the way she touches and talks about aforesaid prawn that she's really looking forward to meeting her baby and I have no doubt she'll love it, but it's been really funny to see certain people's reactions when she refers to it as that.

Has anyone else had any negative reactions to calling it something like 'the parasite'?

Mine was called 'Boris' as in Boris the bump

Boris is now DS's middle name

All three were just 'the baby' although DD1 (who was four at the time) didn't think much of calling her unborn sibling 'it'.

Love 'the foetus' because I know exactly what kind of reaction that will get from the cutsey name consortium and 'snot prawn' made me laugh. Hate all cutsey names with a vengence.

Badgerette was known as Jelly.
Because she made my belly wobble like it.
She was also known as Parasite, which made my mum perform her most glorious catsbum.

A friend's was 'little shit' or 'alien' depending on her mood.

DS was Agustus, as in Agustus Gloop from Charlie and the chocolate factory, as he was always measuring big for dates. DDs were sparticus and sparticus eile, can't remember why.

"Alien" like the film

I love Rasputin. Might put that on the actual list.

Ours is called Stumpy, as at the 8 week scan we had you could just see little stumps where its arms and legs were.

We called ours a little name. And when I had a miscarriage it made it much easier to have lost a much wanted baby with a name rather than just a foetus. It made our baby more real and loved.

But that's what worked for us.

My bump was called Katniss blatantly outs self after my friends teenage daughter came to help out at work. I found out I was having a girl, if I'd had a boy bump would have been Edward yes as in Twilight

I didn't call her anything really but Katniss kinda stuck :)

My DH called her alien baby when he could see her moving

DS was Junior. Pregnancy #2 was Sybil, because it was to be a sibling for DS. I miscarried, unfortunately, but I always think of him/her as Sybil now.

Ds was Xerxes

I don't like cutesy names either. It was always "the bump" or "baby" in both pgs.

Mine was Herbert.

Our first was Cletus the Foetus.
This one is Cletwous the Foetus.
No idea what we'd call a third...