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.

i am also totally uncutesy but ds did have a name before he was born... he was Bud. He remained Buddy after he was born too for about 9 months. we nearly named him Buddy too. All our friends called him Buddy. He was Buddy in utero even before we knew he would be a boy, because we were sick of saying "the baby". It felt really impersonal. And you can't call it "it". I totally agree though, it is a bit sickmaking.

in our defence we were young and excited and would say things like "we can go camping, you, me and Bud!" and it made us feel like we were already a little family.

my second child didn't have a name though. we weren't so young and excited any more i guess

My mother called me and my twin parasites and we were her third try, after a miscarriage and an extra-uterine pregnancy. She said she did it to stop getting too attached to us because parasites aren't generally regarded as a positive thing. I think we took it too much to heart though because we had TTS and sadly she didn't make it. My sister was "Sponger" and my brother was "That thing" (named by yours truly).

Personally I quite like "it"

My dd was, and still is, Bean!

Our first was called "bob" because it just came into my head; I agree I hate names that allude to legumes, fruit etc., but why shouldn't people, if it helps them get through a never ending pg and feel closer to them?

This time we called it Kate ("short for Bob" if anyone gets that Blackadder reference) but hasn't been called anything for a last few weeks as it's all going a bit strangely and I want to stay as unattached as possible for the mo'.......

So I agree, I can't believe that people who use whimsical names/the real final name, have ever suffered through m/c etc as I cannot imagine still using cute names and actively humanising "it" in that way.

to op, yes it makes my toes curl a little. But they're in a fug of baby love so it's forgiveable

I sort of agree with the OP - bit twee, but it doesn't bother me that much.
FWIW though, I did have a risky pregnancy after a long spell TTC, and we occasionally called him " the parasite" - the (otherwise very nice) professor of fetology who scanned me at 13 weeks referred to him as this. Mmm, paging Dr Bedside-Manner.
Oh yes, and DP did call him "Junior" sometimes, but only in a Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade voice. Does that make it more cutesy or less? ;)

YABU. I love it when people do this, it's so loving. I was one of those who named DS before he was born. It helped me to connect to it actually being a baby and not just me being fat and achey.

I love Christmas card with bump in! I send 'to A, B and bump' if their pregnant, too.

It's just a lovely, exciting time, and people can gush and chat about it as much as they like, I love it. I also love to offer an ear to someone who's pregnant with their first as everythings such a huge change, and they want to chat about it all.

My bump was Mr Bumperson for a while.

Mine was bean, cos she looked like a jelly bean at her first scan (very early, cos of previous early miscarriages). After so many losses, I didn't really care what people thought of the names I called my dd. I still call her bean sometimes now.

So YABU. It's not really important and there are worse things they could call it. I do like dirty little squatter, though...

mine is baby or junior cos we don't know the flavour....can't stand calling it IT, so unpersonal, its a real person in there even if we don't know if it's got dangly bits or not.

My DT's were, 'the twins' or 'the boys' (since we did find the flavour out), but my friends called them all sorts of names....benson and hedges (the smokers ), little and large, cannon and ball etc etc, all the double acts you could think of.....

YABU! My DS was called Jomie (cross between me and DH's names LOL) and this one is called Sparky because s/he was conceived on Bonfire night! Personally I like calling my baby a name even if s/he's not here yet, better than calling them 'it' or something. Just my opinion!

Ours is Little Weed, DH named it and it stuck even though it's not the kindest name! Now I can't choose a real name for it, I just can't imagine it being anything but Weed forever. Poor thing

Yes I find it very tiresome. ALL embryos look like beans.
I do wonder whether those that call theirs 'bean' genuinely think that the bean shape is unique to their embryo

I agre Some people I know considered giving their child the middle name 'bean'.

I don't know them that well so don't know if they actually did it..

If they did he will thnk them for that when he's an adult.

The difference is Kittywise is in the 'my', as in this is my bean. That's very important to many of us, even if the embryo does look like every other embryo the sonographer has seen.

I don't like Bean, or Peanut, or anything too cute like that. Which is why the resident of my bump is, for the time being, known as Fernando. It's a proper name, as there's a proper person in there, but it's not one thst we would ever consider using.

I know someone that still 7 months on calls her dc bean. Quite unreasonably annoying to me. I wonder why it bothers me.

belgo, I understand calling it a bean because it looks like one, that cannot be denied, but some talk as if theirs looked like a bean in a way that implies it is very unusual!
Well perhaps they were expecting more of a sprout, carrot or potato or something

depends on the nauseatingness of the name - mostly I don't mind but I have ishoos with the terms bub and bubba.

Nope not nauseating at all.

Dd was 'the parasite' then 'it'

Ds was never named in utero.

They are now 'it' and 'that'

Or 'bug bug and 'boo boo'

and many others

I don't want to sound miserable, but giving my dd's 'affectionate' names made me feel more positive about being pregnant, after having 2 miscarriages. I hated referring to them as 'the baby', too impersonal.

I think it is lovely! I used to have joke names that now crop up on here as serious names!

Oh dear when I read the title I was thinking "surely nobody has called their baby Sprout!!!"

Baby brain!