Before you get to baby names, you need a fetus name...

After all, you're going to be talking about 'it' a fair bit before 'it' makes 'its' arrival and boy, doesn't it sound enchanting to refer to your child as an 'it'? The Sarcastic Journalist discussed this recently and I figured I'd chip in my two cents as well. I'm still trying to think of something to call this babe other than "it", since we're not finding out the gender I can't even say he or she (and every time I do say he/she, someone will immediately ask "oooh so it's a boy/girl?").

We nicknamed our first "Yogi". This was after an ultrasound at ten weeks where the doctor pointed out the yolk sac on the monitor. Ah yes, the yolk sac. The lovely yolk sac. So thus, he-who-was-to-eventually-be-Jared-was-first-known-as-Yogi, a derivation of Yolk Sac.

A friend who had a baby a year after me named her fetus "Cletus", as in Cletus the Fetus. I think the two of us came up with it once over lunch, and I was immediately jealous that I hadn't had such a cool nickname for the baby in utero. Of course, now that she's done it, I can't.

My sister and her husband used a combination of the first letter of his name and the remaining letters of her name for their son's in-utero name. I once pointed out that the reversal (first letter of her name and phonetic sound of the last part of his name) spelled out 'Khan' which would be a cool in-utero baby name (can you imagine? during every sciatica flare up or braxton hicks you could wave your fists at the sky and shout 'KHAAAAAN!!'), but I didn't think of it in time for their second baby - otherwise I'm sure they would have used it. Right guys?

There are so many darned 'baby name' books (I own at least two myself), someone should write a 'fetus name' book. They can start with the legumes, as sarcastic journalist mentions. Or they can use insects - "junebug" was a common nickname for many women I knew who had babies in well, uh, duh... June.

In fact... screw mommy lit. I'm going straight for Fetus Name lit. Blogger Becomes Famous Author By Penning Book of Fetus Names. I can see it now.

I still need a nickname for this babe inside me. I want something snarky. Any suggestions?

Comments

[Sandra]

Not snarky, but we called our first child Ricey until the day she was born. Because when we found out I was pregnant, she was still as small as a grain of...

[Elizabeth]

My brother and sister-in-law combined the boy and girl names that they had chosen, and referred to the fetus as EmmaCharles until she arrived and became Emma Claire. We found out the gender, chose a name, and called her by name from about month 4 on, so that's no help.

If you want to suggest indeterminate gender, you could call it Michael Jackson or Boy George... Nah. How about Hermy (as in Hermy the Hermaphrodite)?

[Kendra]

Our last name starts with "P." So, until we found out the sex, our first son was P-nut. That moniker still sticks with him today. When we were pregnant with the second, he was "little bit."

My father-in-law is BIG into nicknames and calls our eldest "goose." Why? I'm not sure. He is neither gangly, awkward or feathered. He wanted to call the second "Ox" unitl I told him this was a baby, not a big dumb barnyard animal.

Ask Jared to name....um.....IT. Little kids can be quite creative as their minds are not bogged down by the rest of the world. Plus it will be a cute story to tell when your kids are older :)

Kendra

[Elizabeth]

Our "pre-release" names for the boys were Kermit and Bean.

[kz]

In utero, our daughters were Wee One, Pebble (Pebbles once we found out she was a girl), and Tomato.

Tomato was thus named because Wee One and Pebbles made it so. I was going to name her Hummingbird before they came up with the moniker, but quickly switched as Tomato is easier for a one-year-old to say, and I have to admit it's cuter. A word of caution: these nicknames can last outside the womb. Tomato never got a real name until the night I went into labor (I have saved the list of names with times of contractions scribbled on the side), so it was very difficult for the first few months to use her legal name.

To add to Kendra's post, I have a friend who calls her little girl "Goose," too. She's said at least one other person has said they've heard that nickname elsewhere, as well. Huh.

I'm enjoying your site that I just stumbled upon while looking at working mom sites instead of working. Bad employee, bad employee.

[Cynical]

Thanks KZ, that's about the nicest comment a blogger can receive =)

I think I've settled on "POTUS". Phee-tus Of This UteruS.

[Bill]

I have a friend who really wanted o name his Cat boots because of the coloring of the fur on his feet. But his wife vetoed the cats name and instead named him Willie. So when she got pregnant for the first time he called the fetus Boots and so did everyone else.

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