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When I was pregnant, I remember wanting to feel
more connected to the little person inside me. The experience was a little alienating for me, and maybe a sweet
nickname would have helped. But I felt that calling him Blip or Unit was somehow like naming my car, a practice
I'd given up at age 17. It seemed immature. I've since learned from my blog friends that you can, quite maturely, give your little lima bean a classy pre-name name. Cari of Dogs Steal Yarn is expecting Thumper. Heidi of Step Into My Thimble is expecting Mitten (which has got to be my all-time favorite). James at semaphoria was awaiting the birth of Bob, until he was born and actually became Travis. Back in '04 Julie of a little pregnant was expecting Batman (nee Charlie). Kate's nickname stuck after her daughter was born, and she still calls her adorable baby Tadpole on her blog.
As it was I referred to Binx as "this little individual," a phrase picked up from our midwife. I ended up really liking that name for him.
What else have you called your not-yet-born babies? Any great ideas for those parents to be just starting to look for a nom de utero?
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ReaderComments (Page 3 of 3)
3-13-2006 @ 9:44PM
Serena said...My Son was Tadpole and my Daughter was Minnow.
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3-13-2006 @ 10:21PM
Amy Wurdock said...Dh's family is catholic and gave all their unborn children and grandchildren biblical names. Ours ended up as Gabriel, which we shortened to Gabe so it was boring and just ended up confusing people. Dh's sister was Jeremia Ezekia Obedia - and that is just plain cool.
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3-23-2006 @ 2:37PM
GraciesMom said...My fiancee calls her "the Midget" or "Festina". He swore that if she was a boy he would secretly call him "Festus". When we found out it was a girl, he's modified it to be "Festina".
Or...simply *tap tap* "hey you in there!"
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4-20-2006 @ 9:42PM
Kelli said...My sister's nickname for my nephew was peanut. When she got her first ultrasound thats the first thing that came into her mind- a peanut lol
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5-15-2006 @ 2:31PM
tara said...Because we don't know the sex yet, we're calling our baby either "Peanut" (cause that's what the ultrasound looks like), or "Jay-Ram" as a combo of the possible initials (John Robert/JR for a boy and Alana Marie/AM for a girl...JRAM)...a little sci-fi sounding, but it works for us!
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