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

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

look at my typing i meant little boy not bot

I'm sure someone's already dais this, but if you have a scan at 8 weeks or less, the baby does look like a bean, which is why it makes sense to call it 'bean'.

But then at 3 months it looks like - wait for it - a baby. So why not just call it 'the baby'? You KNOW you're not going to give birth to a pulse (or anything else other than a human baby)

The whole bean/lentil/sprout thing makes my teeth ache - but I find giving them a good grind helps

Each to their own I guess. Could be worse - my 'delightful' cousin and his even more vile girlfriend called their DD 'the bitch' when she was in utero.

I wouldn't call the OP unreasonable, but I would say that if it's really such a bother s/he has too much time on her hands.

Ds2 was named "The Venerable Bede" by my brother. Not sure why!!!

flinky. as we couldn't keep referring to her as 'it'. but DH did speak to MIL as family had a laugh coming up with their own interuterine name - selwynelizabeth DH sister also preg had not objected to hers. thankfully had not put these names on our list. certainly stoppe using this in front of us and did not seem to do it for their subsequent 2 GC. has no one else had this happen?

Current PG is referred to as "Mrs Kicky-Knickers" because she is.

Yabu, stop the hatin.

DD was referred to as Alan. It just sounded particularly un-babyish.

DH's granny used to refer to my first bump as "The Floater". She had no idea it has scatological connotations. We even had a Christmas card addressed to Alice, Mr Thecamel and The Floater. How we laughed...

Ours is known as Phoebo. From the friends episode where Rachel and Ross are finding out the sex and Phoebe suggests for a girl, Phoebe or for a boy, Phoebo. Even though we don't know if it's a boy!

CotedAzur, I'm not against finding out the sex but little one wasn't cooperating at the scan so we can't commit to a name yet!

I am quite a sentimental type but I don't like the silly nickname thing - especially when everyone uses 'bean'. I used to say 'the baby' or 'it'. I do find it a bit nauseating when others do this.

Also, for some reason I don't want to know peoples baby name before they are born - I quite like the surprise. I think you are much more likely to like a name once you have seen the baby even if you wouldn't have liked it before.

If I am writing a Christmas card or something to a pregnant friend I do sometimes write 'To XXX, YYY and bump'. Just more a way to acknowledge their unborn babys existance/importance really. Don't sign cards this though when I am pregnant (except maybe to close family )

Oh I called my ds "Squatter" not dirty squatter though lol.

When he went overdue I told him "this is mum, you are being evicted from the big mother womb, please leave immediately". It didn't work though , he had to come out the sunroof! rofl

DS was Bump
DD was Mark 2 (as in version 2, rather than DH being Mark and being a junior version, as someone thought )

Yea i do agree actually, i find it really annoying, a friend of mine calls hers Gizmo.....????????

Mine was called bump!

Mine was Aloyious Pickledinker [rin]

Was given emma bloody diary last week by mw all the way through the baby is described a flump!!!! FGS if you're going to hand this out to pregnant women don't assume all have lost their minds, have only read bits as it nauseates me soooooo much (it is the third copy I've had tho' so no dire need to read!)

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doris i'm off to the pub tonight even if I've only managed to find one friend to join me, hope you stop being sick soon.

what would you suggest? "this rapidly dividing ball of cells implanted in my uterus that will hopefully one day be a sentient being?" Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it?

mine is mainly called bump (am 23+4)

once, when i had really bad morning sickness at about 14 weeks, it was called 'bastard little parasitic alien' which DH thought hilarious and is saving up to tell the bump when he/she is a teenager.

all those who used words like parasite - did you ever have a risky pregnancy or a miscarriage? It's not a judgemental question - I just wonder if its easier to be blase if you've never had to wonder if the baby would make it through.

wow - that brings a light-hearted and amusing thread down to earth with a bump...

sorry, sorry, sorry - it's touched a nerve at a tricky time. I am genuinely curious though.

We called my bump 'Bertie' and some people still call my DS that now. It was a name that stuck because we didn't want to call our baby 'it'. I was even in labour asking the midwives. "Is Bertie OK?".

I loved having that name for it - it probably is a bit nauseating for other people I suppose, but I loved it and I look forward to naming the next bump - possibly Harold. I don't know why - it just popped into my head, like Bertie did.

Mine was called Chigger, but only by me and DH in private. To everyone else it was 'baby ~our surname~'.