According to reader research, most people name their unborn babies something while in utero. If you are going to be boring about it, that name is usually Bean, Peanut or for the Dirty Dancing fans amongst us— Baby.
Mazzy, as I've mentioned was Yoko Ono, which translates into Egg #1. Granted, this translation is in a made-up language that exists only in my head.
As for the rest of you, you named your unborn children everything from Junebug to Kumquat to Monchichi.
Some of you had sound reasoning for your choices, like Sarah who called her unborn child "Baby Grill" because that's what her little boy would tell people they were having.
Or The Tired Mother who called her fetus "Bacon" because her husband walked in while she was making breakfast and said "How's it bakin' in there?" to her stomach.
And then there were people like Chrissie, who refered to the tiny inhabitant inside her womb as "Madongo", the African word for uncircumcised, just to make for some awesomely awkward moments when someone innocently asked "Why?".
But I had the most fun devising my own reasons for your choices.
For instance, Kristina called her unborn child "Little Dude", which I can only assume means her babydaddy was "The Dude".
Hollie called her unborn baby "Duckie", because that's what she says he looked like on the ultrasound. Whether that means her fetus looked like a long billed pond dweller with webbed feet or a high school outsider with a crush on Molly Ringwald is unclear.
Dolly and Ashlee both decided to express their love for McDonalds, by naming their soon to be children after items on the dollar menu. "Nugget" and "Tater Tot", respectively.
Personally, I think "Sausage McMuffin" would make an excellent in-utero-name as well.
Kurstin called her fetus "Michael Phelps", because DUH, she was high when she conceived him. Or maybe it had something to do with being the strongest swimmer…
If you're like Caro and already have four kids, than it makes perfect sense to name your current pregnancy #5. Just don't tell Steve Guttenberg in case he tries to collect royalties.
(No, that's not Wall-E for everyone born after 1986.)
If you have twins, than the smartest solution to deciphering between them are the affectionate names used by Zenmama: "Thing 1 and Thing 2". I'm sure her children appreciated those names equally once outside the womb.
But I also love Jessica's in utero twin names, "JosA and JosB", pronounced with your best Spanish accent.
If you've got a kicker, then you have a few options. Lil' Ninja, Thumper or my personal favorite, David Beckham.
Sorry, I couldn't resist including the torso.
Beth says she called her unborn child "Izzy" short for "Izzy a boy, Izzy a girl?" but I suspect, Beth was just a big Grey's Anatomy fan and never got over the departure of Katherine Heigl.
Lastly, there were numerous people who said, when it came to their second pregnancy, creativity flew out the window and they just went with "Number Two".
After careful thought, I decided to save everyone the visual of a photoshopped turd inside a sonogram. But I will say, "Number Two" might be the name most likely to stick around after the baby is born.
You know, when you lovingly refer to your crying tantruming two-year-old as your "LITTLE SHIT".
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We called our girl boy twins Johnny Depp & Joan of Arc…I don’t know why…but it suited his laid back in utero persona and her take charge one…still would…maybe we chose the wrong names for them on the outside.
Now I want to name my fetus David Beckham 🙂
Okay I’m late but all my friends mysteriously named my unborn son, ‘Amoeba”
I’m one of those wildly creative moms that went with “Number Two” for the second one. It seems silly to come up with something else so close to my due date, but I think Chuck Norris would be a pretty perfect fetus name…
My son was Dances with Happy Feet (you know, Kevin Costner movie plus penguins dancing, you can’t go wrong)–to this day the penguin is still his favorite animal. And boy did he think my stomach was a stage to be performed on.
My daughter on the other hand was Dances with Sneaky Feet, because she too loved to perform, just not when anyone would touch my belly. She’d be going crazy, my husband would try to feel it, she’s stop immediately. You could wait five minutes (which is an eternity when a hand doesn’t want to move from a belly) and nothing. So I would tell him “ok, remove your hand but watch the belly.” Sure enough, seconds after removing his hand, she’d kick and you could see it.
It doesn’t bode well for the teen years.
My 4th one was Gummy Bear since that’s what he looked like at my earliest ultrasound. At 18 weeks, however, his face looked like Darth Vader’s helmet, so he was Vader Baby for a while, too.
I know I’m late but ours is BamBam!!
I’m late too – my bump is called Baby Baggins:)
One friend is calling hers octopus because she believes there’s no way it only has 4 limbs lol. A family member with the last name Maxwell was having a surprise #3 (after b/g twins), and everyone called it Baby Max. I was very uncreative and usually just called them peanut.
We moved in to a rehabbed townhome after finding out that I was pregnant, and I sobbed for days saying that our place wasn’t nice enough, and that my baby was going to be born in a dump. So we called him ‘Dumpling.’
Nathan Jr. And I sincerely hope you know that reference, (it should really be criminal not to know it), but if you don’t, suffice to say that no one in my family is named Nathan, and everyone knew we were having a girl. It made me happy every time I said it.
Raising Arizona is one of my top five movies of all time. Maybe even my favorite comedy period.
we called my daughter elmo in utero which led to an insane elmo obsession which led to my aunt always wearing elmo shirts when around my child getting her the name aunt elmo
Gotta admit, I was boring & called him Bean. But if anyone asked what name we’d picked, the answer was always Pubert Anus. They got the hint pretty quickly. Thank goodness it didn’t stick, he is now Señor Fatso.
I was going for BOB, as in Baby On Board, but the husband started calling it (him) +1 and it stuck.
Ours was Tater because Todd is our last name and my sister found that hilarious. She planned an baby shower menu around tater tots! Then we found out Everly was actually a girl so she was just called Everly. After coming up with a boy name, a boy nickname and finally a girl name, we just lost steam!
our twins were frick and frack. still are to this day, especially when im collectively referring to them to other members of the family.
Bobtrude and Bertho.
My first one was “Junior”, because Arnold Schwarzenegger would name a boy, or a girl, Junior. The second was Bun 2 because our first’s nickname is Bun.
We went with a “Dances with Wolves” theme, too, and ours was “KICKING BIRD”.
I wish I thought of David Beckham. I always said my unborn fetus would turn into a soccer player.
I’m still betting on the soccer player. He is still a kicker (I figured he’d get tired of kicking inside my womb, but nooooope).
Ours was “The Meatball” as in “Prego” Mini-Meatballs (http://www.prego.com/products/classic-italian/mini-meatball). Which is somewhat ironic, as he turned out to be anything BUT mini. He was 10.5 lbs at birth…
you see? i knew you were good people! 🙂
We called our daughter Burbee. I don’t know why, it made me laugh and sounded vaguely like Baby.
Number 1 was Droid and Number 2 was Jedi. We are big fans in this house lol.
I’ve had 5 kids, and I called all of them “Pooka” because a Pukka is a small Irish demon. It fit all of them, not surprisingly.
A friend called their second baby “pencil” …. as in #2 pencil.
We called ours “Chunkybeez”
We called our little guy “John Wayne” after our two grandfathers. I refused to let that be his name out of the womb.
These are great.
Our last one was”Fetus Jr.” We had gone w/ “Fetus” for #1, of course. So, it’s like say ing Fetus #1 was somehow Fetus Jr’s father, which is so absurd, and now I just feel bad for having not put more time into it. I guess I thought it was too sacred or something, but that was before I had lost my mind to Fatherhood and being fat. so there’s that.
Our daughter was Bean while I was pregnant with her… And she’s Bean still (I’m sure she’ll thank us for it when she’s 16). Her name is Lisa Marie, so, LOGICALLY (aka, in my epidural-induced state), it went from LIsa MArie –> LIMA –> Lima Bean –> Bean.
Our son was nickname-neglected in the womb, and still has no nickname. But we think ‘Ezra’ is a cool enough name not to have a nickname.
Our 3 year old names our second baby boy “Giant Squid” (because he loves ocean animals and that was one of his favorites) before he was born, so that’s what we and my family all called him.
love it! We originally thought the baby looked like a Sea Monkey in the first ultrasound…but a surprising amount of people don’t know what a seamonkey is (leading to long annoying conversations and then google imaging) We have recently been referring to fetus as “Gusgus” or just Gus for short. For just like the chubby mouse in Cinderella, this baby has me wanting to eat anything that isn’t nailed down.
We called my son “Trout Grover”. Trout because it was actually listed as a name in the baby names book we had, and Grover as in Cleveland not sesame street, for an ongoing discussion of the 5 silliest presidents names.
Our first was “George” from the Looney Tunes abominable snowman cartoon (“I will love it and keep it and call it George”). The second is “Jerry” because it’s not a name we’d pick, it kind of matched George, and (since twins run in hubby’s family) if there were two the other would have been Tom.
My little boy’s nickname was (and still is) Mancub, like from Jungle Book. 🙂
Joel’s nickname was beanie at first and then turned into lil man when we found out he was a boy 🙂
We have a manager at work who calls her turtle, since it looked like a turtle on the first ultrasound.
My last name is Wright, so I’m going to call my #1 ‘always’ if it’s a girl, if it’s a boy it’ll be ‘never’!
We didn’t find out the sex and didn’t want to call it and “it” and so we came up with HOP. Initially b/c the department we worked in the smallest item we designed had HOP as the acronym, but then we realized how fitting it was since our last name is Hare.
We referred to both of our pregnancies as “Craushan” which is our two names out together, Craig and Saushan. Our celebrity name, if you will.
We called my 5th baby “Baby Foo Foo” in the womb. We felt we had to go with that, because several years earlier my 2nd oldest was telling a story about how mom and dad got married and had all of them, he started naming kids in order, and then added, “and Baby Foo Foo” at the end. My mom thought it was an announcement, as our first 4 were born within 5 years, so they were all expecting the next one soon. When my youngest was 3, we found out I was expecting number 5, and just knew it was supposed to be “Baby Foo Foo”. 🙂
My son was beba for a long time, because my daughter couldn’t say baby
We called our son “Darth” because 1) we are nerds and b) my husband’s last name rhymes with Vader. It was so much fun to mess with people and tell them that yes, that was going to be his name after he was born…it wasn’t .
We call our little man ‘Slimer’ Because he looked like the ghost from Ghostbusters on his first ultrasound.
Ours aren’t that creative. #1 was little bits and munchkin (I think we jinxed her because now she is in the 5% for height). The one I am carrying now my daughter named baby bumble bee.
I didn’t have a nickname for my first, but my brother called her Goober after she was born. With the second, I didn’t want to call the the baby ‘it’ or ‘fetus’ so we stuck with the candy theme and we named the baby Peep until we knew girl or boy. Needless to say, we have a lot of Peep related stuff because he was born after Easter
A friend of mine nicknamed my oldest Jesús since he was due on Christmas eve and my husband’s last name is hispanic. I think many people thought that was what we were going to name him, which made it funnier to me.
Our second was Jellybean, because that’s what he looked like on the first ultrasound. 🙂