What to call an unborn child?

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I am 10 weeks pregnant.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm finding it difficult to know what to call my unborn child at this stage. It doesn't feel right to call it a baby, child or even fetus.

Any suggestions?

Oh @teaandtoastwithmarmite ours is Smudge too! I thought I was being original 😂

Back in the day, I was Spike, apparently.

Currently my twins are "the parasites" because I'm feeling very unwell and they are draining the life from me (and I am joking!). My son never really had a name, just "the baby".

Mine were prawns.

Im 31 and my parents still call me Bean.

Our little energy vampire. First trimester exhaustion is hard.

I just said baby. Even though from a scientific and moral standpoint I didn't consider it to be one.

Currently also 10 weeks. Don’t know what I call them right now. The water bear? The blob? The bean?

Newboy. Gender non-specific.

Mine was 'the bump' for a long time

Then 'baby'

With DD1 it's 'baby sister'

Now we are thinking of names so trying different ones out every few days

I called him squiggle as he was a squiggle on the screen, then when he was 20 weeks and found out he was a boy we named him the name he has now ❤️ I knew my names before I even got pregnant so I knew his name x

Bean sprout- first scan was early and DD looked like a bean sprout so that's what she got called throughout the pregnancy.

Blackadder fans!

Mine was just the baby - boring!

Gdd1 was known as The Gruffalo!

Mine was called Bean. He's almost 26 now and I still use that as his nickname!

I actually don't think I referred to if as anything at this stage lol didn't really talk about it much. Now I'm 28 weeks and we say she or the baby

We called ours Joan (turned out to be a boy!)

We had been watching repeats of Friends and there's one where Phoebe is like an investment banker or something and has an assistant called something like Barbie and Phoebe says "What kind of name is Barbie?! From now on your name is Joan" and that kind of stuck!

The squatter?

DD1 was just "the bump"
DD2 was "bingo" as DD1 became a huge bluey fan so named DD2 after Bluey's little sister.

They still refer to each other as Bluey and Bingo now

It's the small human! That's what ds1 was and same with this one . Occasionally it's the parasite when I'm very unwell

The minute that egg is fertilizes it's the start of baby so not sure why you would want to call baby anything else

We called ours egglet

Same. Squidge and Bean were mine.
My friend's was Emby (sounds cuter than embryo)

Cletus (the fetus)!

My nephew was Grape 🍇
Mine was Baby Dudelet, even once they were born the Dudelet name sort of stuck

My older children referred to my third as 'Baby Bear', it stuck.

I think I called it the baby. As soon as we knew the sex we gave it a name.