To find bump nicknames a bit strange

[TeaOnEverest]

I understand nicknaming the baby before it's born, and the couple using that occasionally between themselves- jellybean, or pip, or what have you.

However someone on my FB has nicknamed their baby Li'l Fishy, and they have referred to it as Li'l Fishy constantly. I thought nicknames happened organically, but friends and family were informed of the bump nickname they had decided upon. She is a bit of a pregzilla tbh, so I'm probably BU purely due to the amount of times I have read and heard the name Li'l Fishy over the past few months, but I was quite surprised when they announced the baby as "Baby Li'l Fishy"

That was a few days ago, no other name yet... Maybe they are going to stick with the nickname forever!

My ds gave our then ds2 a nickname when I was pregnant. It was cute and sweet so the name stuck until he was born.

I'm not a fan of naming baby before its born. I think there's something in over sharing and leaving nothing to announce.

Oh yeah it isn't new. My parents decided I was Ross

Rather Ross than some of the twee ones though!

I don't see why a name is a big announcement? I never did big announcements for being pregnant or naming. I figured people would work it out lol

Meh! We had one for our twins but kept it mostly to ourselves! Was cringey but we didn't impose it on everyone so no harm done

We have a bump nickname! Not sure how it came about. I'd be way too embarrassed to use it in front of anyone except our closest friends and family though (although it's nothing as bad as lil fishy!)

I have an irrational dislike of "baby" being used as if it were a name. All of this "when baby arrives", "have you felt baby kick?", "you should buy that for baby". It drives me bonkers. Why don't people say THE baby??

I'm really enjoying Widget and Mr Baby as nn's. I have never wished for twins before but I really want to refer to myself as the Borg Queen at least once.....

We had a nickname but only we knew it

Lil Fishy makes me want to vomit. It sounds slimey and smelly. And the Li'l is meant to be cute but makes me angry!

Li'l Fishy

My bump is 'it' or 'the baby'.

I know someone who called her bump 'pea pod' - i believe it's because one of the size comparisons on a pregnancy app was a pea pod so it just stuck!

I got told I had to name my bump by a colleague. I said I didn't like that crap. I got told it was like I wasn't properly pregnant unless I named it. I said a baby would appear whatever but no, I HAD to name my bump.
I called it Nigel.
I got told that wasn't good enough.
So I called it sperm poison.
I got told that was disgusting and maybe I shouldn't name my bump anything.

"Bump"-naming and other such twee crap really doesn't do women any favours... Or men, for that matter. I've known some people to use the "bump name" as a middle name. Unforgivable. It's usually unimaginative stuff like "Bean".

I have a friend who had a ds at the same time as her dd had a ds. She's big on 'bump names' and all that jazz. Her bump name was Bob and the dd's was monkey. Then when they were born she had onesies printed with 'bob's my uncle' and 'I'm a monkey's uncle' and took photos for Facebook. I suspect it was planned when the bump names were thought of

Yes, women who go in for obsessively-publicised twee bump names are often the ones who go through pregnancy on an 'I'm madder than ever, me!' ticket, shrieking about their hilarious lapses due to 'baby brain', despite there not being a shred of evidence in properly-conducted studies. (Lapses due to exhaustion/pregnancy insomnia/post-birth sleeplessness or anxiety etc, sure, but your IQ doesn't plummet just because a sperm hit an egg. Whether your unborn child is called Li'l Fishie or Cletus the Foetus.)

DD1 didn't have a nickname and DD2 was Damn Baby, especially when I wanted a wine, or had indigestion or puffy feet, you get the picture. Said with love of course. I'm pregnant again and I think Damn Baby will stick.

DE was Spock as at the 12 week scan her ears looked pointy

Nothing really stuck for DS 'bloomin' baby' is probably the closest to a nickname.

L'il Fishy gives me the rage.

We referred to the bump as "it" most of the time, as we knew the sex, but family wanted a surprise. That kind of stuck more than it should have done now DD is 5 months old (as in, baby crying, DP asking, "what does it want from us?!").

I referred to mine occaisionaly as Theo (the foetus). Made me laugh anyway!

is their surname Fish or Whiting or something? [clutches at straws]