Fetal Nick Names
Saturday November 14, 2009
When I was pregnant with my first baby, we somehow just fell into calling her Baby Big Bird. I have no idea how it happened. One day she's didn't have a name and the next, everyone called her by this fetal nick name. We didn't know that we were having a girl, saving it for a delivery room surprise, but we called her this adorable nick name. It worked for us, even though we didn't plan to do it.
Many families share very similar stories about choosing a nick name for their baby before birth. So whether you do it on purpose or not, these nick names can be a way to prevent you from calling your baby "It." Did you have a fetal nick name? Care to share what it was?
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During my last pregnancy I was laying on the bed with my then youngest. I asked him if he remembered what was in mommy’s tummy and he said “It’s a bug! and I am gonna get it!” From that point on we referred to the baby as Bug, and a version of that is still his nickname today.
I don’t know how it came about, but we called ours “bean” throughout the majority of the pregnancy.
We called ours “puppet”.
We called ours “The Passenger.”