.. to think you should stop calling your baby "Beanie" after it is about 5 months old?

[BumblBeee]

I have seen people call their 3 year old and even 12 year old Beanie - as in 'Guess what my embryo looks like a bean".

I don't get it?! Let the child have a proper name fgs!

I expect I am just miserable!

I have never ever heard anyone refer to a baby as Beanie. I don't get out much.

I have 4 children ranging from the age 2-10 and I am always very surprised that they even know their real names as I barely use them. I do not think it is hurting them in the slightest ( so long as they are affectionate nicknames, not like Frumpy or Yucky...)

One of my best friends is called 'Beany' to all who know her. Her name is Sarah, but we all call her Beany cos her Mum called her Sarah-Beany when she was little.

She is 33 years old.

Her DH refuses to call her Beany and calls her Sarah, but it just sounds so weird to the rest of us, cos she's not Sarah, she's Beany .

Totally unreasonable. What happens at 5 months? People can call their baby/child whatever they want.

Gooddays, is she ... is she Sarah Beany??!

stillstanding ha ha! No she is not the Sarah Beeny, property expert, however, we were all quite amused when Sarah Beeny came on the scene and her name was suddenly a household name!

Makes me smile! We called DS bean but it started as bambino and was shortened to bino and then bean - bin doesn't work somehow. He's 21 now and we still call him it every now and again - and Baby Boy! He just laughs at us!! We also know him as Sponging Student [wink}

you meanie, bumbibeee! Plus you call yourself bumbibeee so you can't really be the one to cast the 1st stone!

I think that the OP was complaining that the family expected everyone else to call their child by the pet name, including school. I agree that is a little odd, but if the kid is happy with it, then it's no big deal really (I know a school aged child who uses his nickname in preference to his "real" name). I must admit I don't associate the nickname Beanie with embryos, it's just a small person sort of name to me. Calling your small/medium child endearing names is normal surely? I thought the general rule is that you stop when your child asks you to.

My parents still use our family pet names every now and then, I don't find it offensive at all. It would be very odd if they introduced us to anyone by those names though! My ds told me that he wanted me to still sometimes call him by his pet name when he was grown up (he is nine), but it is completely personal to me (and womb based I am afraid - Wiggle). I do try not to use it in public though.

Are you sure they are calling the child beanie as in 'Guess what my embryo looks like a bean" rather than a nickname based on their actual name?

One of my DC have a nickname very similar to Beanie but it is a name developed from his name.

When I was pregnant with ds, someone joked that he would have loads of hair has I had terrible heartburn so my dp started calling him Doozer

When he was born he looked like this so the name Doozer stuck.

He's only 15 months at the moment and still has more hair than me. Don't know when we'll stop calling him that though.

I've had some funny Looks in public, think people actually think I named him Doozer.

It's cute, and for as long as the child doesn't mind, I don't see the harm in it!

YABU. I reckon that perhaps you don't have enough to worry about if this annoys you so much! No one has EVER asked me to call their child by their own personal nickname for their child, seems hard to believe but then folk can be weird.

Are you sure his name isn't Bean?

My DD has been called pudding since she was an embryo (because I was cooking her). Or baby bug.

My grandmother died in May at 98. Her real name was Doreen but no one called her that, she was called Babs (ie baby) as the first girl after two brothers. Even the arrival of her younger sister didn't change that. YABU.

my son is 2 and i still call him ba-ba. sorry.

Have you checked the date on the OP?