To really dislike people calling their unborn babies things like Sprout, Bean, Lentil, Bubs etc?

[rollyrabbit]

Or am I being unreasonable? I personally find it nauseating.

lol. what are you calling yours?

I don't especially like it...but each to their own, I guess!

I was going to be controversial and call mine the baby

i can't stand when people name their baby before it's born and refer to it by name.
sounds unhinged.

Have to agree with dragonbutter on that. Sorry.

My mate used to refer to her unborn baby as 'the dirty squatter' which went down a treat at antenatal group full of beans and bumps.

Mine's called Eggbert, is that OK?

I always refered to my 2 as Bump when I was pregnant.

mine was snuffy!lol and the name is still used for different things!you won,t want to know aboutthe song i had then!ha instead of theres a worm at the bottom of my garden it was theres a baby in mummys big fat belly and her name is snuffy poole!lol i know i,m a tragic saddo i was just full of baby love!!!

I get more annoyed at people who sign their cards from their pets.

You're right. My two were called Bucky and Spud the Peanut. Much better.

Mine was Wayne. (I'm Scottish )

I received a Christmas card this year from:
Jo, Dave and Bump!

All 3 of mine were called bub

DD was called Disco Stu because she danced a lot in there (still does now she's out)

Mine was called Gordon. Don't know why, but it was Gordon.

My niece was a "beanie". Today she's 5 yo and everyone still calls her "beanie".

I called mine Shorty, on account of it being a Short-arse. It started as a joke but stuck. Then DP told me he hated it, so we started calling it Baby again.

We got Christmas Cards addressed to J, F* and Shorty. Or Bump.

I had a bean. I am the most un fussy un cutesy person in real life but she was definitely a bean :-)

She is also still called bean today and she's 8!

(though she now blushes when we call her that in front of boys )

UG, short for Unexpected Guest or EG1, for Expected Guest No 1, EG2 for Expected Guest No 2, etc etc. We seem to have lost count now.

YABU. Who cares what other folk call theirs?

Mine were called lumps by a colleague, and he wrote it in the Christmas cards he sent.

Still, saves him having to remember their names.

Mine was "the alien"

I'm with the OP: this is a foul and unnecessary practice. Yuk.

YABU. Get over it.

Mine was called turtle because on the 9 week scan it looked like a turtle.
My friend is expecting in April, hers is called Hobbit - She and her DH are LotR fans.

DS was called Colin.

This one (named by DS) is called Pirate.

We don't do cute.