Code names or nick names for unborn babies

[Minnesota!]

I don't find the nick names for unborn babies, especially those where the parents don't know the sex, as the same thing as shortening words because people are to lazy to use the whole word. As you can see a lot of these nicknames are not any shorter than the child's eventual real name.

I guess I just would prefer, in my own perfect world, people say "the baby kicked" vs. "Nemo kicked" (not picking on a pp). I have a hard time with that kind of stuff...just makes my skin crawl. But, it's my own issue, so I would never SAY... "hey, that term is stupid...". I would just fake smile and then roll my eyes when they are not looking.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

PP is correct - the irritating habit of people creating shortcuts/nick names out of everything - "ressie" for reservation, "souvie" for souvenir, "hossie" for hospital, etc. It hurts my ears.

You forgot Selfie.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Our DD was Batman.

Our friends nicknamed our unborn godson P2.0.