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

[Ariel21]

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

Anyone else?

Ds was Bruce (would have been Brucina if a girl - imaginative in this house!).

We & family referred to him as this so often, lots of people thought it would be his actual name.

Bump is named Jeff didn't find out the gender. Catsbumface from both mothers when it's said

DH gave DS a cutesy bump name.

After DS was born, this was followed by months of BIL persistently referring to DS by cutesy bump name instead of DS's proper name. Really, really, annoying.

DC1 and then 2 didn't get in utero names.

DC3 got called Pip. Mainly because his siblings wanted a name to call the baby. We used that name so much I thought it would stick as a nickname once he was born. But it didn't. Pip was the bump and DC3 was DC3. If that makes sense?

DC4 is Twiglet. Think that's because it was Christmas when we were trying to figure out some name to call the baby and there was one of those yummy tubs of twiglets on the table. I don't really use it that much though, again it's for the siblings more than anything.

They have all been Parasite at some point during the pregnancy though!

My friend called hers Gobshite till she was born.

My bump is called Bumpy.

We didn't intend to name the bump but a bump name popped into my head about three days after I found out I was pregnant and it stuck. It's now DD's nickname. The name is part of a pair (telling you would out me) and the current bump is now the other name of that pair.

Ridiculous. Clearly I lose my mind when pregnant.

My bump was Pudgy. Now DS's nickname is Pup.

No, not at all.

Parasite is fine.

I also used Junior.

I know what my name was in utero - it is a v trendy boy name nowadays

DC1 was obliquely referred to as "puppy's friend" while we were keeping the pgy secret. Later he was "kicky baby" or KB.

Mine was just bump (boring)

Or we were both know as the death star in the last few weeks, due to my size

DS1 was mango. I cant remember why?!
DS2 was (and still is) Wombpig. There is a song and everything

(I should add DS2 is 14 weeks and has been upgraded to ludvig wombpig, in a bavaaaarian (ala chitty chitty) accent)

Mine is The Bastard. Topical and accurate.

Mines is "thing 2" :o

My friend came up with Em- short for embryo. "Because you just can't do anything with fetus". I later found out it was twins, and broke the news by saying "Em's twin wants a name too!" My resourceful friend then came up for Zy for zygote.

So that was what they were called.

I think ds1 was bump or baby. Ds2 was 'baboo' as that was what ds1 called it. Infant, ds1 refused to use ds2's actual name for 3 months after he was born, if anyone asked what his baby brother's name was he replied 'baboo'. Dd was baby or bump or baboo.

Awful MIL called mine Beanie in her stupid girlie voice

Made me want to hurl. Still does actually.

Mine was called "Spawn of 'DP's surname'". I was not particularly impressed with the never ending sickness she caused.

They often seen to be various types of bean. Jelly bean, kidney bean, has-bean...

What's the annoying name Emma out of Emma's diary calls hers?

MrsK - us too. Except she got stuck at lemon. I even got a mother's day card last year from 'the lemon'!

DD was buggerlugs as she made me feel so rotten all the time, also Mungo or Euphemia, which we said were our name choices, as I was sick of people trying to force their choice of names on me all the time.

I called mine Pip, as due to scares we had very early scans when baby was the size of a pip, the name stuck She is now a lovely bouncing baby who is very long for her age, so not very pip like any more, we didn't call her Pip but it was handy for coded speak about pregnancy before we announced it. I don't see the harm, a friend called theirs Bean and another called hers Pickle.

Dd1 was called Schrodinger after a scare early on when we weren't sure if she was alive or not.