Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

DS name suggestions for the new baby

42 replies

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 21:27

Just wanted to share some pearls of wisdom voiced by DS today. DS said that we should call the new baby "Oleg" like the baby meerkat on the Compare the Market adverts. He also warned us that "people babies are like meerkat babies, they are eating and pooping machines"!!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 21:29

He has also suggested "Anton" as in Anton Du Beke from Strictly or "Gruffalo" or "Yoda"

OP posts:
thatstoast · 11/01/2014 21:30

My DH suggested it as a middle name. That's the power of advertising, although I think he was mostly joking!

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 21:32

I think we need to switch off the tv too! We don't even know if it's a boy or girl yet. DS suggested Katie Morag for a girl!

OP posts:
wispaxmas · 11/01/2014 21:48

Haha, someone on the June ante natal thread has a son who wants their baby to be named "underpants Elliot"!!

Cariad007 · 11/01/2014 21:51

Well my brother wanted to name my youngest brother MacGyver! It was the 80s...

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 21:55

Loving the alternative name suggestions!

OP posts:
JanetAndRoy · 11/01/2014 21:57

A friend's son wanted to call his new baby sister "Milkshake" because he likes milkshake and he likes her too!

LexieSinclair · 11/01/2014 21:57

My DD wanted DS to be called Jackie, if he was a girl. :)

lilyaldrin · 11/01/2014 21:58

DS wanted Ajay, after the train driver in Postman Pat. At least that's fairly sensible.

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 21:58

Ha ha what flavour Milkshake though?

OP posts:
firstbaby01 · 11/01/2014 22:00

LOL! My DP wants to call ours Xena warrior princess if its a girl and Loki-Thor if its a boy. he was being serious too!

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 22:02

Lexie I like that your Dd was thinking outside the box!
Lily I think Postman Pat is the reason for the name 'Julian' being suggested too. Better than trying to call the baby Iggle Piggle I suppose!

OP posts:
AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 22:03

firstbaby I bet my DS and DH would love both of those suggestions!

OP posts:
AngelaDaviesHair · 11/01/2014 22:06

One child in my family suggested 'Eagle' for the new sibling. Though nowadays that's not even particularly outlandish. Another suggestion was 'Tonyblair'.

VJONES1985 · 11/01/2014 22:06

Can't stop laughing at the thought of my baby being called Gruffalo Jones...

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 22:09

I reckon there probably is already a kid out there called "Eagle"!!
vjones I think Gruffalo Jones has a certain ring to it but what would you have as a middle name? Grin

OP posts:
MrsGiraffe12 · 11/01/2014 22:12

My son has asked if we can call the baby Seamus if he/she is ginger (after the wwe wrestler) x

VJONES1985 · 11/01/2014 22:15

Gruffalo Yoda Jones? Gruffalo Indiana Jones?

sillymillyb · 11/01/2014 22:21

My nephew (7) was convinced my whole pregnancy that my ds was going to be called Elmo.

He was there when the hv came round for the first time after the birth and he took her to one side and said, "sillymilly is very confused, she keeps calling it Henry by mistake" it was hilarious, he has this Confused look on his face as if I was a moron!

AlwaysDancing1234 · 11/01/2014 22:27

VJONES Gruffalo Indiana is the best, I would love to see the registrars face when you fill out the form for the birth certificate!!

OP posts:
Ilovekittyelise · 11/01/2014 23:22

haha this is funny. although if you hop over to baby names im sures theres worse names under serious consideration! im 37 weeks and we dont agree on a single name; may well be open to toddlers suggestions (i predict piggle, thomas, monkey, tomliboo etc)

beela · 12/01/2014 09:12

DS thinks we should call our new baby 'cheesebaby'. He falls about laughing every time he says this, but has failed to come up with any alternatives.

AlwaysDancing1234 · 12/01/2014 14:33

I had a quick look on the baby names threads and quite frankly the names listed here are no more ridiculous than some of the real serious suggestions people have made on the baby names threads!! Confused

OP posts:
puntasticusername · 12/01/2014 15:50

DS strongly favoured "Pizza Poo" as a name for DS2. Expanded to "Pizza Poo Willy Bum Bum" if he was in company that he thought might be entertainingly shocked by such language.

AlwaysDancing1234 · 13/01/2014 15:34

Puntastic that made me giggle!! My DS has also suggested "poo machine" which is quite accurate I guess!

OP posts:
Swipe left for the next trending thread