Nicknames for babies when pregnant and including them in the baby’s actual name

[ShirleyPhallus]

Would love to hear if anyone has done this, included their nickname for the baby while pregnant in the actual name

People I know used Bug, Bun, Bean, Peanut, Junior, Sprout, Baby, Sesame etc etc

Do you know anyone who used their nickname as part of the baby’s real name? We have gone for Pip which could easily be included if it is a girl (well, Philippa). Just wondering if anyone has done this?

There was a thread on here not so long ago where the OP was asking for ideas for a second DC, a sibling for Plum. Apparently, Plum was their nickname for the 'bump' and they decided to go with it.

It's not something I've ever heard of. I don't think the cute nicknames last throughout the pregnancy really. He or she may be "bean" when they are a wee blob on a scan or a gentle bump but by week 34 when you've seen their face (or skull) on the scan, and they are shuffling around with all four limbs and with their bums pushing up on your belly button , and a big bonce is bearing down on your cervix... I think you just start refering to them as their intended name or as the baby.

My friend just did this exact thing! I won't say exactly what it was but as an example it was along the lines of

Nickname: Dodi
proper name: Dorothy
Still called Dodi every day

The 'Dodi' nickname was dreamt up by her two older children (2 and 4) and it's stuck. I thought it was really sweet.

Baby boy was called blossom as we did not know what baby boy was going to be. I think if he had been a she we would have continued with the nickname as a nickname. Baby boy now goes by the nickname Dobby

😂 DD was Balthazar in the womb. I don’t think she’d have appreciated that being added into her name

I never had a nickname for mine. Unless ‘get out of me you satan spawn’ when I was 36 weeks and in bed rest with SPD, couldn’t eat anything because of HG and heartburn, and thoroughly fed up of being pregnant counts

When I was pregnant, DS was Bod. DS teaches Ancient History and got all excited at one point because he found someone in some obscure Roman text called Bodmilqart. That was a no from me!!

When I was carrying DS the midwife let DD listen to his heartbeat; DD said he sounded like “Thomas the train” so his nickname was Thomas. We kept it as a middle name, though probably easier than some.

Francis bean cobain

Daughter of kurt cobain and courtney love

DS was hepzebah. Thankfully he was a DS or else I might have had a fight on my hands as DH had fallen for it

I didn't know the sex of my DS when I was pregnant but called 'it' Gizmo or Gremlin (when I was hospitalised with HG)

Called Jude now so no link. Although we still have lots of nicknames for him

DS was Emmy (short for M&M) and would have had Emily as middle name.

A friend of mine has two children whose pre birth nicknames are part of their names. They're not of the bean or sprout variety but not things you'd probably want to call out, one is a sporting reference and other is an ongoing in joke between the parents. Both kids have normal first names and another middle name, I think it's cute.

Did Greg Rutherford (long jumper) not do this? I may be presuming, but his sons have the middle names "Nugget" and "Mowgli" (amongst others) which I believe were their womb names.

@KTD27 I know someone called Hepzebah!

I love these other stories

Our DD1 was also nicknamed Pip from the moment we found out I was pregnant and we considered Phillip or Philippa as potential names but in the end chose a different name we preferred. We still called her Pip for a while after she was born but it gradually faded away and I'd forgotten all about it until I just read your post!

I did this. Didn't know the sex but referred to baby as a slightly unusual boys name which was a play on the word ds1 used when he reacted to the news he was going to be a brother. It kind of stuck so ds2 had it as a middle name. I wouldn't have thought to use it as a name if it hadn't been his womb name. it wouldn't go down well on the baby name board

DS was called cletus the foetus.

That didn't make it into his name funnily enough!

A friend of mine did this! While pregnant chose a beautiful combination of first name and middle name but referred to the bump by a cartoon character's name, which is not an actual name. Then when the baby was born swapped the chosen middle name for the cartoon name. Now insists the child is referred to by the full two names and I cringe a little when I say it because I think it's daft.

My DS2 has a very common name for his age group - let's say Sam. It can be short for a boy name or a girl name but we didn't particularly like the girl name and wouldn't have used it. We had almost completely agreed on this name for a boy before he was born, and started using it for the bump (we didn't officially know he was male, although we both half thought we'd seen something in the scan and we knew he was quite big, which suggested boy to us). In the event, he ended up with the name that had been his unofficial name for ages, but he definitely wouldn't have done if he'd been a girl.

DS1 was "Baby Bear" in utero so that wouldn't have done at all. I don't really like either Baby or Bear as "proper" names.

We sort of did this back-to-front....

We knew what we wanted to name DS but we didn't want to tell people. We referred to the bump as Odie. (We told everyone it was after the dog in Garfield cartoons but in actual fact it was because O.D. were going to be his initials - DS is called Owen.)

DS was The Spawn when he was in the womb. Now he is out, he is known to everyone as Squish, Squishy or The Squish. Not connected, but alliterative.