What do you call the fetus?

[sanielle]

Because fetus is a god awful word.

Mine is a marmot.

We say the 'prawn'

:)

giblet

We've called ours "Cornichon" as my DP's nickname for me is "Pickle" and Cornichons are little mini pickles - mainly over in France I think (my DP is half French). My SIL called hers Jelly and my friend called hers Fraggle.
:)

Highly unimaginative- the baby!

Maybe it's just me but I find it hilarious to say to my dog "don't sit on the fetus!" when he parks his arse on my belly!

Generally OH and I just call ours little girl/she/her, etc... we don't actually find out for a couple of weeks; I occasionally ask her if she's got a penis but she hasn't responded

Little Khongor. My DH has obsession with all things Mongolian.

The bairn, or the wee one.

DH now also sometimes calls me (very affectionately) the little ones (plural) as I was always little one before.

(Not that I am actually that little, but he's very big, so I always look it...)

I was quite careful to refer to it as embryo or foetus earlier on as didn't want to get too attached in case of issues, but then the hormones arrived....

DS1 was Jelly cos when I found out I was pregnant with him he was the size of a Jelly Baby DS2 was pea cos when I found out with him he was only the size of a pea.

Interesting how many are food related! Is that because in books they always give you the sizes in terms of fruit? Or because pregnant woman think of food all day?

BOB

Ours is Bean. My DH named it in the very early stages because foetuses (sp?) look a bit bean-like and it has totally stuck. Even to the point that our family and friends call it Bean in everyday conversation. I do wonder if the nickname will stay even when it is actually born and properly named- poor thing!

Pip (size of apple Pip early on!) or Babykins.

My OH's took to calling the baby Bean too..

My OH and I though call it Sprout :) :)
Alternatively known as sproglet :)

Mine was 'the squid'.

Interestingly, if you do want a fruit/size comparison, this website is ace fun! community.babycenter.com/post/a12175855/baby_size_compared_to_fruit

I call it Baby or the Fetus (as in, 'don't aim for the fetus, DP!' when playing ping pong).

DP calls it Baby or Sprog.

Sputnik - yes I'm a geek

Like Fanjo, mine is a Bob. After Bob from Blackadder, handy for a boy or a girl. If I have another I may call it Steve because I find the idea very funny.

Fidget! Cos it never keeps still for long! :o

DH has an app on his phone called 'What to Expect' and each week it likens the size of the baby to something foody. In the first weeks we went around saying things like 'ooh, it's a poppy seed'

This week (34) she is a large canteloupe!

At one point, Dh walked into a school governers meeting and announced "we're having a sweet potato!" bless!
(although we now know what flavour we are having, and usually refer to her by a version of the name we have chosen).

My first was called 'Stanley' after we joked about calling it that and everyone was aghast (4-5 years ago). We didn't call her that once she had arrived!

The second was called BITB (pronounced bit-bee) as was 'Baby In The Belly'. We didn't call her that on arrival either!

Cletus.

Weeble - cos until he was turned 2wks ago he was breech. Weebles wobble but they dont fall down...

Fing ... now fingmelina because we know it's a girl. Makes no sense now I write it down!!