Giveaway: Two Handmade Mobiles from Baby Jives, one given away on Instagram and one given away on the blog
I have yet to move Harlow into Mazzy’s room, since we are still working on getting Mazzy’s sleep habits under control. In case you are curious, Mazzy now has a cold and wakes up every fifteen minutes screaming for a tissue, even though I make her sleep with an entire box.
Mazzy’s antics haven’t stopped me from getting Harlow’s side of the room ready, which mostly means we must stop using Harlow’s crib as a conveniently accessible storage container and the world’s largest hamper.
I’d also like to create a space that feels just as special as Mazzy’s side of the room, without duplicating it. That’s a tough job when you consider Mazzy’s got a gorgeous custom quilt from Cheeky Handmades hanging above her bed.
Then I stumbled on the beautiful handmade mobiles from Baby Jives, and knew Harlow had to have one.
Baby Jives mobiles are created by Jahje Ives, who says her creations are inspired by her four-year-old son, Gavril and her one-year-old daughter, Elodie. In fact, Jahje started making mobiles during her first pregnancy when she couldn’t find anything she liked enough to hang over the baby’s crib.
The name Baby Jives was derived from the name she and her husband gave their unborn child while he was in utero, which is a combination of their names— Joe and Ives.
FYI- Mazzy was Yoko Ono while in the womb, later nicknamed Yolkie. You know, like an egg. Harlow was nothing. You know, because she’s a second child.
I love the Baby Jives cloud mobiles the most because they remind me of a modern handcrafted version of the satin hearts and stars I used to have hanging from my ceiling in the eighties. Except these have a tasteful zen quality as opposed to a Lisa Frank aesthetic.
But Baby Jives also makes mobiles in many variations including birds, planes, and butterflies.
You can hang one or hang a few at varying lengths to great effect.
I finally decided on the white puffy cloud with the gold stars and little moon for Harlow.
Today, I’ve got two opportunities for you to win a Baby Jives handmade mobile of your choice (in the form of a $60 gift card which should cover both a mobile and shipping.)
I’m giving one mobile away on instagram and one mobile away on the blog so I don’t leave anyone out.
On instagram, please see my feed (@mommyshorts) for rules which include reposting the graphic at the top of this post to #instashorts_dreams.
To win the Baby Jives mobile on my blog, please follow the giveaway rules below.
GIVEAWAY RULES
1) You must be a facebook fan of both Mommy Shorts and Baby Jives to enter. Then answer the following question in the comment section:
What did you call your baby in utero? (If the answer is nothing, that’s fine too!)
2) For a second entry, follow Mommy Shorts on Pinterest and pin the graphic at the top of this post. Then leave a comment saying you did so.
3) For a third entry, tweet a version of the following and then leave a comment saying you did so:
I entered to win a gorgeous handmade mobile from @babyjives via @mommyshorts http://bit.ly/XKowVR #giveaway
Winner will be announced on Friday March 29th.
Good luck!
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The winner of my ‘child sleep consultation’ giveaway will be announced tomorrow. You can still enter HERE.
We didn’t have a nickname for my first or the current baby in the womb.
We called my belly Edward as a joke. We never intended on naming our child that. We were planning to name him Aiden if a boy and Lila if a girl. Then when our son was born, my husband and I looked at each other and said, “It’s Edward!”
We called our first Bean and this second we’re calling him LD, for Little Dude.
And I tweeted! @kkaner
Aaand followed you on Pinterest and . . . pinned it!
Peanut. Then their names once I knew the sex.
We called my daughter munchichi because her ultrasound photo looked like the cartoon character and we still call her chichi for short (her actual name is Lila).
Tweet, tweeted 😀
No nicknames for any of our 3. I guess we suck as parents.
We called our little one the Raptor. It started with the Velociraptor meme, but just seemed to fit him.
I pinned and tweeted, too! I love the mobiles – gorgeous!
We don’t know if the baby is a boy or girl yet, but since he/she was surprise! (I’m in that 1% haha) we named it Michael Phelps, you know being the strongest swimmer and all.
I don’t use twitter, but I DO pinterest. So pinning away, as well as instagram!
Pinterest Pin seen here! I’d have posted it in my “Children’s corner” board because my “Baby, Baby, Baby, OHH!” Board is still a secret until next weekend!
http://pinterest.com/pin/2533343512934790/
First one was called Cigalon (little grasshopper), the second was nicknamed as Petit Cochon (little pig) by his 2.5 year old brother
We call our current baby in utero “Zy”, short for zygote (obviously named at the very beginning of my pregnancy!)
First she was Little Sticky Bean, then she was my Mini Human Bean, then we settled on the name Violet Grace and was rederred to as Miss Vi or VG.
I call it a little bean
We call Ethan Plankton and SeaMonkey
We called her Creepin’ Charlie to ourselves, and Fetus Conley to the public.
My 2-year-old named my yet-to-be-born daughter “Snowflake” after her Elf-on-the-Shelf this past Christmas. She said it’s because the baby is always hiding too!
Ours was Bug. I still call her that.
Our last name is Yost. When I was pregnant with my first he was called YostPod. Now we are preggars again and calling it YostPod 2.0 🙂
We called my first daughter Baby and we tended to call her that long after she was born and named. My second daughter was #2. Yup, not very creative!
Nothing really. Baby. Not too entertaining..
My oldest son, Connor, was nicknamed “Madongo” in utero which is an African word meaning uncircumcised. It was fun to a. tell people that was the name and b. explain what it meant. Ironically, he’s totally circumcised!
As soon as we found out, my husband dubbed the baby “Zy” as in “Zygoat.”
Tweeted!
Pinned the sweeps on my Pinterest! Thanks!
http://pinterest.com/pin/1548181094355850/
We didn’t have a nickname for the first one. We picked her name out pretty quickly and just called her that. The second one is still baking, and she’s been #2 or baby girl. We don’t have a name yet, but she’s likely to get a leftover name from the first round naming process. Poor #2!
Pinned!!
This charm city mama just tweeted the giveaway! @efyost
My SIL nicknamed our first Peanut, and it just stuck. I never got creative with the nicknames until after they were born, I just called the babies what their names were going to be, Liliana (nn Lamb)and Liam (nn Lion).
I’ve always used the times the babies were stuck on the inside as a opportunity to give my babies crazy celebrity names… Maxwell was NUTmEGG (get it?), Richard was Discotek Air-Raider, Caitlin was Pixiedust Fairybell. I got better at it towards the end!
Our first was the Peanut. This one is Baby No Name, sometimes shortened to BaNoNa.
We called baby “Twinkle Toes” because I could always feel his feet moving!
And I pinned too!
We called my daughter snuggle while she was in the womb 🙂
I don’t think we called him anything. Now he has lots of nicknames! Most recently, Little Bear and Peanut.
Repined for a second entry! Those Mobiles are gorgeous! I really want one! http://pinterest.com/pin/284360163944411959/
My older son was Bubba (courtesy of a little cousin who couldn’t get over how BIG my belly was).
My younger son was Tweety (courtesy of his older brother, who declared that Tweety would be a good name for a baby).
We called our baby ZuZu — after the little girl in Its a Wonderful Life.
When we found out my husband said it was just “a cell cluster”… and I responded with “a cell Clive Clussler” (after the author that my husband is a fan of) so we call him Clive.
Pinned!
http://m.pinterest.com/pin/62346776063908858/
We called Zoe our ‘little Ninja’ because of the way she kicked!
Pinned it!!
Just tweeted!
A friend started to call my bump Ernestine because we didn’t want to tell her the name of our baby girl. We are from France and Ernestine is a very old fashioned name, very popular among grandmothers! What started as a joke became the way we referred to the baby and everybody was surprised when Sarah was born because they thought Ernestine would be her real name! I have to say sometimes I miss Ernestine 😉
Our first daughter, during the ultrasound, the doctor told us that the cells start flat, and then form around what will be the organs, almost like Ziti. Later that day, we went to a party, and everyone was talking about the Ziti that was served. At the end of the party, the hostess said “Does anyone want to bring any of this Ziti home? Because we’re going to have this for a really long time!” and my husband and I could not stop laughing. So she was called Ziti for the longest time, even after she was born.
Then, when we were discussing names with the family, they got really opinionated about the names we were considering, so we decided to tell everyone that we were going to name the baby Phoenix Ivy no matter what the sex (Ivy because I found out I was pregnant with her while I was getting checked out for a severe case of poison ivy). Our very conservative, Catholic families were so relieved on the day she was born, and was named Sophia. We pulled the same thing with each child since, just to give ourselves some peace.
#2 was called Bacon, because I was making breakfast, and my husband said “How’s it bakin’ in there?” to my stomach.
Sleep deprivation is getting the best of me, because I don’t remember #3 and #4’s nickname.
We called my second “Donut” that was the name his big brother cme up with for him
I can’t enter because Facebook won’t let me add any new likes, but I love their stuff! I know I can’t enter (sad face!) but I’m going to add them anyway when I can, & still participate in the baby nickname game! My Jack was called everything- punkin, booger, monster, Cletus the Fetus (no, I didn’t come up with it), & most frequently, “g**d***it, quit it!” -he was a painful little kicker, & I was the angriest, largest pregnant woman ever.
I follow both of you on FB. We called our first baby just Baby in the womb. And our second, like you said, nothing because she’s #2. Hehe. Love the name for the shop, combo of mom & dad’s names!
I pinned the top graphic and follow you on Pinterest.
Here’s my tweet https://twitter.com/lisacng/status/312215779720450048
We just called her the baby at first. once we found out we were having a girl, we called her Grace. Her name was picked out a decade ago. I waited a very long time for her…
pinned!
Our babies nickname was Mini Wilson because well, our last name is Wilson and she was mini LOL. And I follow both on facebook!
I’m following you on pinterest and pinned the image: http://pinterest.com/pin/152137293634577961/
we are just about to move our little man amos into his room andthese mobiles are the first i have seen that i liked! We called my now 7yold spooks when she was in utro and we called amos (11 weeks) hiccup because he got them like three times a day…every day for months!
And I tweeted! https://twitter.com/StaceyEWilson/status/312217053278924801
My daughtwr waa Ziggy, as in Ziggy the zygote. This baby is “Us Baby”, named by my 2 year old who is still learning her pronouns. 🙂
Our first baby was “kumquat” because that’s the fruit she was the same size as when I first told my close friends that I was pregnant (at about 10 weeks).
Now that I’m pregnant again, we are calling her “K2”, which serves a dual purpose of being the second “kumquat”, and also our last name begins with K, which is less difficult to explain to people who didn’t know the joke of the first one 🙂
I tweeted as well 🙂
We had a friend who saw Cale’s ultrasound picture and started calling him “Skeletor”. I did not like it that much, but it stuck… unfortunately.
Our baby was Poppy, since when we found out, all the books said the baby was the size of a poppy seed. My mom still calls her this exclusively!
currently pregnant with #3 and we call him or her Baby Bee.
Pinned on Pinterest also!
Super Baby!
i tweeted (@marigold_road)
When I was pregnant we called her “Magneto” (like from X-men). I had made a list of baby names both male and female that I liked (we didn’t know the sex yet) and apparently Magenta (which was on the list of girls names at the time) translated to my husband as “Magneto”. Needless to say, the name was thrown out but “Magneto” stuck. When we found out she was a girl it was changed to “Magneta”. All of our friends also called her that and some still refer to her as “Magneta” or “Baby M”. We named her Arianna. lol
And I liked both on Facebook!
Preggers with #3 and we call him “Charlie”. #2 named him and it seems to be sticking!
Liked it, pinned it, don’t use but if I did, I would tweet it, too! Oh, and the giveaway is on my birthday… does that count for another entry?
Pinned also! 🙂
My husband and I adopted our first, so our experience was a smidge different… Because we didn’t know of our daughter until the she was born, we simply called her baby Yury (a shortened version of our last name and my husband’s nickname!) *pinned *liked
Our baby is due in July and goes by the name Alfie. Not sure where the name came from, but it stuck.
I had twins. So when they were on the inside, we called them JosA, and JosB, with mexican accents of course…lol
We called her Tiny Dancer and then Lily once we knew the sex. And Baby Girl or “BG”. And Peanut.
After our first ultrasound I called my son the flickering rice bean baby for a while, I don’t think he got any more nicknames after that! (until now of course when he has a billion)
oh and, I pinned the graphic! 🙂
Following on Pinterest and re-pinned!
Our little guy is still cooking. We affectionately refer to him as Thumper. He’s super active, and, though I’m totally biased and haven’t even seen him, he’s adorable.
We called our daughter Jelly Bean before we knew it was a girl. Then we called her little miss! I liked both pages on facebook!
I also tweeted! @dancinglilyblog
Mine was “Baby Grill” becuase that’s what her brother would always say when people asked what I was having. We continue to refer to her as such.
With our first son, I was extremely sick and decided it was because the fetus was so amazing my body couldn’t handle it… So we called him the ‘Gipper’ because clearly he was Reganing and could do no wrong- 30 Rock reference. Baby number two is ‘Dos’ because our 18mo old can say it and it was better than calling him “number 2.”
We call her Cheesy because of the cheesy grin she gave us during an ultrasound.
Followed you on pinterest & pinned this giveaway!!!
Grayson my 1.5 year old was nicknamed by my father – COULDY (could be a boy or could be a girl was his explanation for it) We were surpised with a beautiful baby boy!
I tweeted
Followed you on pinterest & pinned this giveaway!!!
I tweeted this giveaway! yay!!! I’d love to win this, such an amazing giveaway!! 🙂
Our first was called “Smudge” because that’s what was on that first ultrasound image! The second doesn’t have a nickname, we’ve just been saying “Baby #2” or “This one.” 🙂
Following you on Pinterest and pinned the graphic! (http://pinterest.com/pin/444308319457967121/)
Those mobiles are just GORGEOUS!! Whoever wins this giveaway will be so lucky! I just have to say that giveaways like this probably make it really hard for women who are very early in their first trimester and are still keeping things a secret! ;-P You know, I imagine. ;-P
Tweeted! (https://twitter.com/Mama_Wolfe/status/312230251881172992)
http://pinterest.com/pin/529595237401217623/
I also pinned it!
My second (who is 9 weeks old) we all called baby sister
My first baby we knew was a boy… A big boy… From the beginning. We nicknamed him moose bean. My daughter on the other hand was a trouble maker, from the beginning.
CEASAURUS! Because our last name is Cea and she looking like a dinosaur in our first ultrasound pictures! 🙂
Posted on Pinterest 🙂 awesome giveaway!
Peanut for our daughter and Nugget for our son. 🙂