Code names or nick names for unborn babies

[cluvsdisney]

My nephew was called Thor until he was born and my niece was called Itty Bitty.

 

[SanderMC]

We opted not to find out the gender of our child and ended up calling her "Bug", short for Bug-a-boo for the entire pregnancy.

 

[Carriemel]

For my now 7 year old, we called her "Little Snugglebritches". Yeah, don't ask. We have no idea where that came from.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I used "The top one" and "The bottom one".

 

[Kimberlyann11]

We called our 3rd Chewbacca during the entire pregnancy. We found out in the last month that my mom thought we were serious about naming her that and was calling all of her friends to complain about how terrible it was.

We told my mom that we picked out the name Pubert for a boy. She was very diplomatic - but we didn't keep her on the hook too long, that would be cruel.

 

[disneyeveryyear]

We didn't know the sex of the first, and I don't remember any specific nick name.

Our second required an amniocentesis, so we knew it was a girl, but couldn't pick a name. She was "the princess" until two days after she was born when she was finally named. Later nicknames for her have included "Peanut" and "Boog."

 

[DisneyPeanut]

We didn't find out the sex of our baby till he was born. I was looking through a baby name book and the first page I turned to with the first name is saw was "Egbert". I don't know why but I thought it was a hilarious name and I really couldn't believe anyone was called that, so baby be came "Egbert" till he was born. It's even engraved on the back of a charm.

 

[disykat]

No nicknames here either. I haven't known very many people who had nicknames - I guess I thought it was a new fad?

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

We referred to ours as Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All. Seriously, we really did. Doctor Who fans will understand

Once we knew that he was a boy, we just started calling him Josh.

I bought a onesie with that one it for my upcoming grandchild! Also, got a onesie that says "mom swore she was solemnly up to no good..nine months later, mischief managed". Oh, and a pair of slippers/baby hat made of material with "Little People" type characters of the Serenity crew.

I need to stay off Etsy......

My sister is also making a blanket for him in scarf colors....(DH's doctor is the fourth)

Each of my kids had their nicknames. DD#1 was my sugarfoot; DD#2 was her daddy's munchkin; DS was my bug. Grandson 1 was his mom's alien; Grandson #2 (the one I'm shopping for now) is Grandpop's Little Jawa.

 

[momof2n2]

We used a nickname for our last four amongst ourselves. Felt nicer than "it." We never knew the genders. Our family is partial to nicknames as a whole, however.

 

[littleblackegg]

No...no nicknames. It kinda skeeves me out, actually, when I hear about people doing that. Not sure why...it feels very "ressie" etc. Gross.

I do not understand "ressie." Is that some sort of child nickname? Do share!

 

[daughtersrus]

When I was pregnant with my first, we were very frustrated with people asking us what names we had chosen. We would tell them that the first name was Lika (like-a) middle name Michea (mike -a) because they rhyme with our last name. The look on their face was priceless because they thought that we were serious. DD was born right before Christmas. She still has the ornament that my mom cross stitched for her with the name Lika on it. Mom knew it was a joke

 

[design_mom]

I do not understand "ressie." Is that some sort of child nickname? Do share!

I don't think it's referring to a child's name. I think it's referring to some people's choice to create short forms of words that don't usually have/need shortened forms. "Ressie" for reservation; "Souvie" for souvenir are two that we see pretty frequently on these boards.

My kids were adopted as toddlers, so we didn't have nicknames for them in utero... but my sister called hers "The Baby Bean". I don't know if it's something I would do, but it didn't bother me at all. Nobody called the baby that after she was born and her name was announced.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Let's see. We had The baby, The baby, and the baby.

Does that count?

 

[Minnesota!]

I do not understand "ressie." Is that some sort of child nickname? Do share!

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.

 

[littleblackegg]

I don't think it's referring to a child's name. I think it's referring to some people's choice to create short forms of words that don't usually have/need shortened forms. "Ressie" for reservation; "Souvie" for souvenir are two that we see pretty frequently on these boards.

My kids were adopted as toddlers, so we didn't have nicknames for them in utero... but my sister called hers "The Baby Bean". I don't know if it's something I would do, but it didn't bother me at all. Nobody called the baby that after she was born and her name was announced.

Well, saying "ressie" is definitely dreadful. Also, if people have to ask for an interpretation, all that time and effort saved by shaving off two syllables is just pointless! LOL!!!

 

[wilkeliza]

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.

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.

 

[Diznotyzed]

Our first was "the Bee". She wanted to name our second "Doorbell". "The Bee's" new son was "Bean Sprout". We're a very nick namey family.

 

[Golf4food]

We had a boy and girl name picked before we got pregnant since we were trying. Once we found out we were pregnant we started calling it "Nemo" so for our ultrasounds we would be finding Nemo. Once we got far enough along and learned it was a boy we used the chosen name.

 

[powellrj]

We never used nick names and after the first one we never told anyone what name we had picked out. My ex DSIL asked what we were going to call our first one if it were a girl and we told her and then she turned around a used it before us.