If you haven't chosen a name yet, what do you call the baby? We call this one the shrimp. One of the updates we read said the baby was about the size of a shrimp and dh just stuck with that. Our first was the bean because he looked like a lima bean at an early ultrasound and our second was Clyde because it rhymes with our last name and we thought it was funny to torment our families :giggle2: they thought we were serious that that would be the name.
Bella Catalina
05-13-2008, 08:19 PM
DS was Goober, this one is Pancake, Bailee was Squirt... DH names all of them :giggle:
Kestlyn
05-13-2008, 08:22 PM
My Mom used to call us "Hoover" or "Eureka" :giggle:
Rachaelbee
05-13-2008, 10:20 PM
so far a nickname hasn't stuck, we have names picked out if it's male... but if it's a girl, oh man!:banghead: I think I was almost due before we could agree on a third girl name, dh is leaving for Iraq soon and I want to have a girl name picked out just in case this one pops out female too!
ashleykaymay
05-13-2008, 10:25 PM
bean or pumpkin....we need gender neutral nicknames that we can use because i am finding out what we are having and rick isn't. i have to have a name i can use because i don't want to accidentally say parker or ella (we are for sure on parker...i can't convince him ella is perfect though...i think once babe is here he will realize how perfect it is.).
labrae
05-13-2008, 11:06 PM
Parasite. ;) I'm horrible... she's awesome, she understands. LOL
FancifulFanny
05-14-2008, 04:38 AM
This one is Flash or Thumper.
mama2logan&evan
05-14-2008, 05:52 AM
Parasite. ;) I'm horrible... she's awesome, she understands. LOL
Hey, a fellow Minnesotan...:wave:
Where in MN are you?
mama2logan&evan
05-14-2008, 05:52 AM
This one is Flash or Thumper.
I remember seeing that you used Flash. I love it!
FancifulFanny
05-14-2008, 08:45 AM
I remember seeing that you used Flash. I love it!
and now when it moves it's a distinctive *thump, thump, thump*. It feels so weird and all I can think of is Bambi and Thumper.
kannondicarpo
05-14-2008, 08:47 AM
We let Nikolas give the new babe a nickname. He chose "Yaya". :)
mama2logan&evan
05-14-2008, 09:15 AM
We let Nikolas give the new babe a nickname. He chose "Yaya". :)
:giggle2: Cute.
AutisMaw
05-14-2008, 09:25 AM
so far a nickname hasn't stuck, we have names picked out if it's male... but if it's a girl, oh man!:banghead: I think I was almost due before we could agree on a third girl name, dh is leaving for Iraq soon and I want to have a girl name picked out just in case this one pops out female too!
Good luck mama! We've got our male name all picked out too but are having the hardest time with girl names, ugh. There are just sooo many...
Good luck with the upcoming deployment too!
We called my daughter Joe because we thought it might be a boy and Joseph was to be the name but now I'm preg. again, my family is calling this one Joe and it's irking me. We don't plan on re-using a name, even if it wasn't really used, if that makes sense.
littlemamanay
05-14-2008, 09:57 AM
I'm due in Nov but I liked this topic :)
DF and I call the baby peanut. hehe
susansabrina
05-14-2008, 10:00 AM
I called DS Peanut and it stuck. I am still working on one for this LO.
louieryansmom
05-14-2008, 10:11 AM
My family called my 9 yo ds|Fritz... Im not sure why.... My 6 yo dd was gidget... I liked that name.. my 2 yo ds was the flu cuz I was in denial that I was preg (I did a home preg test and it came neg) so I would just say I had the flu..that just stuck.. and 1 yo ds was monkey.. he liked to move 24 hrs a day! I felt him move at 8 weeks...
MooMoosMommy
05-14-2008, 03:57 PM
We didn't really have one for our first son. Although after he was born I started calling him Macy moo moo. So Moo moo stuck. Kinda feel bad about that one! This one, EDD 10-5, I am calling 'little one'. DH and I can not decide on a name (boy). My mother called me 'little one' growing up, so it's sentimental.
MaryF
05-14-2008, 04:08 PM
Our Li'l Pumpkin Seed, since he/she's due in October 4 days before Halloween:)
mcbruhn
05-14-2008, 04:09 PM
We seem to have settled on "critter." Not original, but gender neutral until we find out the gender.
MaryF
05-14-2008, 04:11 PM
If this one's a girl her name will be Audrey Lena, as for a boy, we haven't discussed any yet, I have a few I like, but DH isn't thinking of any until we can find out what the baby is.
kimpo76
05-20-2008, 08:46 AM
My DH has been calling the babies Ben & Jerry...you can guess why! But now that we know it's a boy and a girl I told him it's actually Ben & Jeri! :giggle: Those will NOT be the real names we end up choosing... obviously... :mrgreen:
mama2logan&evan
05-20-2008, 08:51 AM
My DH has been calling the babies Ben & Jerry...you can guess why! But now that we know it's a boy and a girl I told him it's actually Ben & Jeri! :giggle: Those will NOT be the real names we end up choosing... obviously... :mrgreen:
That's great!
growgrowgrow
05-20-2008, 09:07 AM
started calling ours 'my tenant' jokingly. before it was a fetus i called it 'little embryo' but somehow 'little fetus' doesn't sound as sweet. i have been looking for a good nickname though b/c we will not be telling anyone else the sex, and i don't want to slip. it gets old saying 'the baby' all the time.
AutisMaw
05-20-2008, 01:39 PM
ben and jeri, that's cute! lol.
as far as gender neutral names go, there's a million to choose from. I refer to baby as whatever veggie it's close in size to. I think, according to babycenter, baby is the size of a green pepper right now. lol. so yea, it's "the pepper" now.
mama2logan&evan
05-20-2008, 03:47 PM
ben and jeri, that's cute! lol.
as far as gender neutral names go, there's a million to choose from. I refer to baby as whatever veggie it's close in size to. I think, according to babycenter, baby is the size of a green pepper right now. lol. so yea, it's "the pepper" now.
Babycenter is why we call ours the shrimp. You must be 18 weeks, too. I just read the pepper on Sunday when I hit my 18th week :giggle2:
AutisMaw
05-21-2008, 07:22 AM
Babycenter is why we call ours the shrimp. You must be 18 weeks, too. I just read the pepper on Sunday when I hit my 18th week :giggle2:
Hahaha, yea, I was. I just hit 19wks so I think it's a tomato or something now but I like 'the pepper'. I may just stick with that one until we hit 'the watermelon', lol!
mama2logan&evan
05-21-2008, 09:23 AM
Hahaha, yea, I was. I just hit 19wks so I think it's a tomato or something now but I like 'the pepper'. I may just stick with that one until we hit 'the watermelon', lol!
After the shrimp was the avacado but dh said it didn't sound as good so we stuck with the shrimp. I'm sure that's what we'll call it until it's born....and maybe after, too since we have sunch tiny babies and kids :giggle:
kannondicarpo
05-21-2008, 09:26 AM
I just went to look at babycenter and at 17 weeks the baby weighs as much as a turnip. :giggle:
Good thing we already have a nickname. I could see this getting out of hand at our house.
amberof2
05-29-2008, 02:13 PM
A friend of mine, not married and has no children... mistakenly asked me, "How's the little tadpole doing?" I was pretty insulted then. But honestly, if it came from one of my friends with children, I may not have taken it quite so badly.
donnamarie
05-30-2008, 07:00 AM
We call him "nug - or nugget" it all stared with our daughter we called her nugget because when i got my first ultrasound I said she looked like a chicken nugget. :giggle:
crystaldawn_23
06-01-2008, 07:07 AM
Seems like I've been away from DS for way too long.
We've called all of our kids either spices or herbs... DS was paprika, DD was basil, and this baby until he/she emerges from the womb will be "coriander" At least this way I can call them something. The sex and name of this baby will remain a secret until he/she emerges from the womb, so we have names either way.
breakfastsurreal
06-01-2008, 10:19 AM
we call her Peyter-bug or Peyter-tot (her name will be Peyton)
JeDeeLenae
06-01-2008, 11:03 AM
We call our kids little turds... but it just doesn't seem fitting for this little girl, so we call her baby sister.
chel79
06-01-2008, 01:02 PM
DS calls her cookie or baby cookie. He won't call her anything else and if someone else does, he corrects them :giggle:
Mg17
06-18-2008, 09:50 PM
we called our first "Texas Ranger" which became Tex near the end and with this one we're calling him/her "Doctor"... we figure Doctor Green has a good ring to it whether it's a boy or girl!
littlefornow
07-06-2008, 01:36 AM
We call her Eva most of the time, but I call her Thumper a lot now that she is apparently doing Tae Bo in there. Her 11 year old sister calls hubby "Fun Filled Stuffed Burrito." As soon as we told her that we were having a baby, she started calling the baby "Jr. Burrito."
MellieB
07-06-2008, 12:40 PM
If you haven't chosen a name yet, what do you call the baby? We call this one the shrimp. One of the updates we read said the baby was about the size of a shrimp and dh just stuck with that. Our first was the bean because he looked like a lima bean at an early ultrasound and our second was Clyde because it rhymes with our last name and we thought it was funny to torment our families :giggle2: they thought we were serious that that would be the name.
At the first ultrasound, i was 7 1/2 weeks, and all I had was a yolk sac and a tiny blob with a heartbeat, which looked like a blinking light... so we nick-named the baby "Blinky".
Once I started to feel the baby moving, with increased energy and force... we upgraded the nick-name to Bruiser :)
christieh
07-07-2008, 07:03 PM
We nicknamed our dd Pele, after the famous soccer player. When we found out it was a girl, we just stuck with that because of her infamous kicks!
upzndowns
07-09-2008, 06:08 PM
lol! My son was, "my little parasite" much to the dismay of his daddy.
This one is Cosmo, until we can decide on a name for him.
TK10
07-28-2008, 11:15 PM
We call him, "You in there!" usually when I am threatening to ground him for kicking me! lol We have several names picked but are waiting to meet him before deciding, so I try to avoid calling him a name for fear I'll start to prefer one over another.
littlefornow
07-29-2008, 11:57 PM
LOL TK10, my husband thought I was harsh for threatening to ground this baby before I was even through my first trimester. Of course, throwing up for 5 months will make ya cranky. However, I showed great restraint this weekend and I did not threaten to ground her for the gestational diabetes - or even when she kicked the hospital mattress all night the first night. I hated it to so I couldn't blame here. That bed was downright painful - and the scary part is the nurses kept telling me the postpartum beds like I had were more comfy than the labor beds. Now that I am condemned to a hospital birth I am really not happy to hear that the labor beds are THAT bad....After two nights in that bed I told my husband we are not coming into the hospital til the baby crowns....
