What are you calling "it"?

[poetesss]

Hey all,

Just wondering what you are calling your little babe to be. Do you use a nickname, just call it "baby" or what?

dh and I started calling ours booboo as we lived for a while in Jordan and loved it, and ppl over use the word "booboo" to mean "baby." My friend who was pregnant over there would have people affectionately ask her, "So how's the booboo?" Ever since I heard that I just knew my babe was gonna be booboo till it popped out! Oddly enough I never thought of the english meaning of "booboo" meaning like a hurt or something till recently. Oh well, booboo he is for now.

We've also just ended up calling it a "him" for now just b/c it's a bit more personal than saying "it" although in my mind's eye I picture the baby just as often as a girl as I picture it as a boy!

[Mermaidmomma]

I love Booboo!!! :lol I've been calling "IT" Her. Or little Ava which will be the name if she turns out to be a girl.

[cakefight]

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[Mrs_Hos]

Well...we won't know what 'it' is until 'it' is born, but my dd thinks she is having a sister...'my sister' *in her little 3yo voice!* So I just say it's her sister...
Wow...how am I going to explain it if s/he ends up a BOY? :)

[gen_here]

We called our first "Wags" - and this one is "Zy"... as in Zy the zygote (and, I know, we're past that stage now... it was just cute and stuck!)

[Mermaidmomma]

my baby is named el chupacabra

:laugh: OMG I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! Dh and I are avid sci-fi/horror movie fans and el chupacabra is fab!!!

[poetesss]

Oddly enough, last night dh suddenly started referring to booboo as a "she". So I was like, "oh, okay, now it's she?" he's like, "Yah, 'cause I want a girl!"

So now we have booboo the he/she, depending on our mood!

[poetesss]

We called our first "Wags" - and this one is "Zy"... as in Zy the zygote (and, I know, we're past that stage now... it was just cute and stuck!)

I remember you mentioning this name on another post and I thought it was just so cute! Now I know the background behind it!

[ferretfan]

plain old junior mostly. also 'feetie' the fetus, or squiggles when the movement started

[Brisen]

We haven't done nicknames -- just the baby, usually. Though I like the idea of calling it "quattro", for fourth.

[Lucia1]

Lucia (pronounced Loo-cha). If it's a girl her name will be Lucy (which I'm convinced of), if it is a boy the name will be Channing. We combined the names.

[kimnicole428]

baby....we are boring. I talk to our 2 year old Boxer and tell him he will have a little brother to play with (i know dorky but I am the queen of dorkiness)

DH is sure it will be a boy. We shall see. At any rate he refuses to discuss girl names so I will get to name her if she is a she.

disclaimer: DH will be happy whith either sex, he just says he "only has boys" he has two from a prev marriage and if mine is anything like them we will be very lucky.

[hopeful1]

That's really cute! We are calling ours "Bun"... as in bun in the oven...lol. Congrats and great luck!!

[rainbowfairymomma]

we don't have one yet but I'm liking punkin :lol

[Lady Madonna]

Mostly "baby" - it makes the most sense for DD. Sometimes Cletus, as in Cletus the Fetus. Occasionally, with my previous pregnancy and this one, it is the "life sucking parasite of DOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM." DH came up with that one, for bad puking days.

[SagMom]

I've never had a name for a baby in utero--we just called it "the baby." (How original!)

However, my 15 y/o has taken to calling the baby "Bernard."

I have no idea why. When the other two heard him, they fell to the floor, in a fit of laughter, so I've a feeling that "Bernard" it is. (But only until November!)

[Ileifa]

DD wants to name the baby "truck". We said no to that but we refer to my tummy as "truck". She seems to be satisfied for now. Although sometimes she wakes me up in the middle of the night and whispers name suggestions in my ear.

[Knittin' in the Shade]

since we're pretty sure I'll deliver in october, Dh thought it fitting to start calling this babe "pumpkin"

[egoldber]

I have to admit I've avoided developing a nickname for this baby. With DD1, it was just "baby". With DD2, we called her "the blob" (after our first early ultrasound, DH said "it looks like we're having a blob, and it just stuck). Since I'm so worried about this pregnancy, based on my past history of early AND late loss, I am waiting until a little later to have a nickname.

[LavenderMae]

I'm really liking Pumpkin since this baby will probably be born late Oct., maybe even on Halloween!!


Beth, I am so sorry for your loss/es. Many healthy sticky baby vibes to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[egoldber]

Sheacoby, thank you. I hate to be the downer loady, but I am just so anxious. :shy

[mesmerize138]

Since everything in my house is named with unbelievably complicated and silly names (the iron is named Stinky Cheese Man) by my best friend/roommate, we've been calling the baby ...

Bosco "The Unit".

Still makes me giggle every single time we say it. :D

[MerryOne]

Binghi, short for Nyahbinghi, if baby is a girl she'll be named Nyah so I esp like the nick name.

[Milkie&Cookie]

Hi All! Can I join you?

We called my son Paczki because I first felt him move after I had eaten two paczkis on Paczki Day (Where's that ashamed smilie when I need him) For those of you who don't know Paczki's are these giant custard or jelly filled donuts that are much richer than regular donuts. They're like 800 calories each! You eat them on the Tuesday before Lent or Mardi Gras.

This baby I've been trying to call Butterball since he/she is due on Thanksgiving Day, but I accidentally call him/her Paczki all the time. LOL

[spunky]

Our DS was born in the year of the Monkey so that is his nickname. This one will be born in the year of the dog and I didn't want to call it dog or b**** (because I think it will be a girl). We found out right before Spring Equinox and I was making up bean runes for friends to plant and started calling it Bean.
I had friends who called theirs Dot and Splinter.

[One Art]

we called my dd sprout when she was in my belly, and this one is roo (as in the winnie the pooh stories). My dd thinks it is hilarious and says that "if the baby is a kangaroo that will be too goosey! (silly)" I had one that I lost (very early on) that we called goat, because of the zygote thing.... my dh almost starting calling this one goat but I couldn't do that.

[SoPac]

We called our first one Habibi and then lost the pregnancy. It's hard sometimes not to call this one Habibi too but that didn't feel right. My grandmother calls "it" peek-a-boo - that cracked me up. I call my husband papichulo so sometimes I call the baby chulito. We won't know the gender of the babe until birth so even though we have a few names picked out, I don't want to name him/her until we meet face to face. I feel like I need to see his/her eyes first...

[BabyBumblebee]

<<<hugs>>> Beth - and lots of sticky vibes for you and your babe.

This little one seems to be the babybean. Or as dd says....baybeee ;)

Dd was the peanut - or the chickpea....

no, of course I'm not food obsessed :shame:

[mama2toomany]

I call them Baby A and Baby B.... nothing endearing... they are not mine.. I am just there incubator. :thumb