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Elvis

After one doctor's app't I came home and proudly announced that my uterus was now "over my pelvis." This turned into "Elvis is over the Pelvis." Girl or boy, it's "Elvis" for now!
—Guest Dragonfly

baby fetus

Well, we started out with 'clumpy' - I had a couple miscarriages and to make light we called it "clumpy-stern", from the Howard Stern movie 'private parts'. Now we're getting past that, at 14 weeks, so I'm scanning through these to find something that clicks! Hubby still wants to call 'em clumpy though.
—Guest tara

Junior

After I found out I was pregnant I started calling it 'the blob', about two weeks later my partner walked in, put his hand on my tummy and went "So, hows Junior?" and the name stuck.
—Guest Atell

Strawberry

My mother started calling my baby strawberry as I would be found having them any time she called me up in my first trimester. She used to tell me my baby will turn out to be nice and pink like a strawberry.
—Guest Pooja

Monkee

My daughter and her boy friend are obsessed with monkeys so until they know the sex (and probably after) we all call it Monkee.
—Guest Dawn

Omlette and eggy bread

Our first was nick named omlette after mishearing what my other half called the baby and it kinda stuck, this baby is eggy bread as we decided to keep on the egg theme and thought fried boiled and scrambled just seemed cruel. Grandad calls baby goldilocks as he's sure its a little girl.
—Guest Ermie76

Fetal Name : Ah B

This is my wife and I first baby. We are Asian, we call him Ah B ... Our lovely baby.
—Guest Scott Lai Wai Yam

Bean

We call it 'Piscean Bean' because it's due in March- so will be a Pisces- and at our first ultrasound it looked like a teeny little bean.
—Guest ...

beanie baby

This is me and my husbands first baby together but we both have kids from prior relationships. My husband is full blown Mexican and I'm as white as it gets, so everyone including him calls our son beanie baby.
—Guest Alicia

Spawn

We were trying to think of something that wasn't gender biased and for some weird reason I would call our baby Spawn and it just stuck.
—Guest Chan

Gummi Bear

We never really had any nicknames for the baby in utero with our first 2 pregnancies, but this time around we had an early ultrasound at 9 weeks. At the time the baby looked like a gummi bear so ever since then this one has been our little gummi bear.
—Guest 3rdtimearound

Dot

When we first found out I was pregnant we read something that said the baby was the size of a dot and so it stuck! Even the kids a school ask how Dot is before they leave the class!
—Guest Guest

Nicknames for fetus

My oldest was nicknamed ET by my dad. My second child was nicknamed duck by my sister, but we called him Gus-Gus some what. I'm 30 weeks with my 3rd and call him Kermit. All of the nicknames were based on the the ultrasound pictures...
—Guest Guest HMC

Otter

We were talking about what the baby looked like and I told my boyfriend it had a tail so ever since then its nick name has been otter.
—Guest Murphy

Prime

The Transformers movie was popular when I got pregnant and my husband and friends are huge fans or Optimus Prime.
—Guest Tawanda

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