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Nickname for baby in utero?

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Metrobaby · 10/09/2004 13:52

I just wondered if it was just me - but did you give your dd or ds a nickname whilst it was in utero? My dh and I used to refer to the baby as the bert.

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Cadbury · 10/09/2004 16:01

Ours was Babble and dd is still called that now (and answers to it!- Hannah Babble). Ds was called wriggler but graduated to being a Babble when he was born. Now he is Samuel Babble. I am fully expecting the kids to tell the teachers their sirname is babble and be approaches on parents evenings as Mrs Babble!

CountessDracula · 10/09/2004 16:13

NdeP ours was prawn too! Then once the kicking started it was Muffin (as in the mule)

handbagaddiction · 10/09/2004 16:18

From 17 weeks, dd was called 'wriggly'. Speaks for itself really!!

dinosaur · 10/09/2004 16:27

DS1 - Ajax Worthington

DS2 - Bingo

DS3 - Freddie

dejags · 10/09/2004 16:44

DS1: Baby Deej (see my mumsnet nickname - self explanatory)

DS2: Baby Lollypop (all I could eat for about a week when the morning sickness was really awful)

Neither stuck after birth...

littlemel · 10/09/2004 16:52

big bum - she keeps sticking her bottom really far out of my bump, and even with my clothes on my bump looks really uneven and weird!

Seabird · 10/09/2004 17:28

years ago while stuck in traffic, dh & I decided to call our kids Spatula (for the girl)& Ketchup (boy). So... dd was Spatula (Spatch for short) & this one is Ketchup

Oooggs · 10/09/2004 17:45

Just boring old 'Junior'!!!!!!

Miaou · 10/09/2004 17:47

My granny called her bump "Lionel", which turned out to be my mum in the end. My sil called hers "muffin" - I hadn't thought of the mule thing, I assumed it was because it was a bun(muffin) in the oven!!

popsycal · 10/09/2004 19:24

ds was the slug
this baby is sluggy two shoes

Munchkinola · 10/09/2004 19:28

Angelina Ballerina cos she twirled and whirled around

serenequeen · 10/09/2004 19:37

ds was miffy and variations thereon, e.g. el gran mifendo, miffy miffolopolous, m'sieur meef.

dd was iddy biddy.

scaltygirl · 10/09/2004 20:33

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poppyseed · 10/09/2004 21:04

DD was ipsy pipsy I know, I know, but ips are her initials. (We were going to call her by the names swapped round but we thought a lifetime with 'pis' being her initials was really too much!!) We still call her pips for short!!
DS I'm afraid to say didn't have one bless..

cazzybabs · 10/09/2004 21:08

Beazulbub for this one because dd is so welbehaved this one is bound to be a nightmare and for dd we called her the thing.

toddlerbob · 10/09/2004 23:26

Arkid - I come from the North and so "our kid" is a nickname for a brother or sister, but we adapted it. I actually fancied it as a middle name as nobody in NZ would know...

fabarooney · 11/09/2004 08:42

Smudge and Pootle.

eidsvold · 11/09/2004 09:17

boring old bubba - same as dd - poor dd will have a little bit of an identity crisis as we still call her bubba or bubs at times.

Friend called dd roo - and me kanga ( being an aussie in the UK) she felt it was appropriate and dd is still called roo by said friend.

kiwicath · 11/09/2004 18:44

"The Boy" - bless him, he's still called that aged 8.5 months.

tex111 · 11/09/2004 18:49

Pickle. DH picked it and it stuck but now I usually call him Cowboy (see my nickname ).

sassy · 12/09/2004 08:08

Both of mine were called Wombat - cos they lived in a womb!

webmum · 12/09/2004 08:54

baby2 is beanler or little bean (trying to translate from italian), I can't remember what we called dd1!!!!! Maybe we didn't have one.....

SamP · 12/09/2004 10:42

Ours is 'Bob' as in 'Bob the bump'!!

sweetkitty · 12/09/2004 17:23

apple seed - the size she was when we found out

from 23 weeks she was called by her real name

fisil · 12/09/2004 19:12

The Baby. With capital letters (and always with The). On formal occassions "Today's The Baby". Not a clue why - came from dp. New one is too new to have a name yet. But it will be Inian.

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