naming the baby (until the real name)

[MommyNicoleTX]

What will you call the baby for now? peanut, bean, baby, etc? my best friend called it the honey bun (ya know bun in the oven). i thought it was cute!

[krankedyann]

Baby #1 was peanut
Baby #2 was gherkin (which would get the song, "there's a gherkin lurkin' in mama's tummy)
Baby #3 was Ickle Pickle, which turned out to be twins.

[MichelleAnnette]

Baby #1 was Squirmy
This baby....I wanted Squirmy Two but dh doesn't like it, so Baby 2 it is for now.

[winnie]

So far, "this baby" or "the baby". DS thinks a good name for the baby would be "bear", but I'm worried if we call the baby by that name DS will be upset when we use a different name after birth!

Erin

[AfricanQueen99]

We haven't really discussed it. My guess is bean, but who knows?

[Collinsky]

I had one friend who called hers Bean/Beanie, and another who called hers Paisley. I called my firstborn "Nub" prenatally ... I had a nub in my oven. Sometimes also Nubbin.

Ack, sorry, I'm not in your DDC, I thought it was the general pregnancy board. I didn't realize until I already posted.

[Beryll]

DD was just "baby." I'm thinking #2 feels like "sprout", but we'll see if that sticks.

[philomom]

All my kids had in utero nicknames. I think its sweet.

[MMx3]

The names vary throughout the pregnancy.
DD was "the little alien" and the "mutant stomach fish" amongst other things.
I also called her pokey.

[citizenfong]

Ehh...that has never really worked for us. We started out calling our first "bean", but it did not stick whatsoever. I think we just always say "Baby".

And I'm one of those people that drive others crazy by calling my in utero babies "it" instead of he or she. But what the heck? If you don't know, you don't know! Saying "it" only reflects my lack of knowledge of a specific gender.

[Sharon, RN]

My dad called my first ds "Bruno" just to drive me nuts. And it worked. LOL I think I just said baby.

I'm a big Philly Eagles fan. I was jumping up and down last week when they won the playoff game. My dh was giving me a hard time about the Eagles, so I covered my belly and said, "Little Donovan doesn't like that!" (Donovan McNabb is the quarterback of the Eagles.)

My dh started laughing really hard, and now I think Little Donovan is going to stick.

I'm a dork!

[mummytobe]

:hope and joy i call my babies :

[MyZoeJane]

So funny you ask this...

When DD was in utero I was in a pet store at around 14 weeks and was looking at the fish. My sister was talking about baby names when I cried out, "I know! We can name it Placostamus!"

We called her Placostamus til DH announced her name "Zoe" shortly after she was born. :

[prettymom]

DD #1 was Buddy, like the song about the doll in the 80s "My buddy, my buddy, my buddy, my buddy...wherever he goes I go...my buddy."

DH has already started calling this one "Remo" because we conceived on a cruise and the captain was Captain Remo. He jokes that he wants to name the baby Remo, but it has already become the nickname in utero.

[jimblejamble]

"The Little One".

[notjustmamie]

Not in your DDC, but I love these discussions, so I'm adding our names:

: we called "Joey" (like the baby kangaroo).
#1 I was planning to call "Roo" (like kangaroo, but also means "two" in DH's tribal language).
#2 We had decided to call "Gamma" (as in the third letter of the Greek alphabet).

[black balloon]

We're calling the baby "Drüski", after my husband. If it's not a boy, I will be very surprised.

edit: we called Rory "sugarplum" because we knew she was a girl. I must be on to something with semi-gender-specific in utero names!

[sg784]

Originally Posted by citizenfong

Ehh...that has never really worked for us. We started out calling our first "bean", but it did not stick whatsoever. I think we just always say "Baby".

And I'm one of those people that drive others crazy by calling my in utero babies "it" instead of he or she. But what the heck? If you don't know, you don't know! Saying "it" only reflects my lack of knowledge of a specific gender.

Same here. Even when I kenw the gender, I alwyas had name possibilities for birth, but baby was always baby or it in utero..........

[wendytthomas]

Byte. Piper was Bit. We're geeks.

Wendy

[octobermoon]

nothing too original here, mostly little bean, beanie or baby.