Comments on: Friday Fluff: Fetus Naming

By: spuffyduds

spuffyduds — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:49:02 +0000

We called them both “The Squid.” I no longer remember why–a vague sense of a squishy salt-water dweller, I guess.

Neither has ever been in danger of freezer burn.

By: Jenne

Jenne — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:34:31 +0000

I called my son parasite, zygote, symbiote, and the little lima bean of love, from time to time. His main nickname, though, was Lump, from the Presidents of the United States of America song. After he was born, he became Noodle. He was very much wanted.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:18:59 +0000

Ha! Wish I hadn’t been out of town and could’ve jumped on this fluff earlier!

My husband and I plan to have kids, but we’re just getting to the point where we’re starting to try for one. Over the years of planning, we started out calling it Hypothetical Spawn. Then it became Unnamed Spawn. Now it’s Nameless Spawn. In fact, we’ve been calling it that for so long now that when (I hope soon) the hypothesis actually becomes a fetus, we’re considering giving it a name with the initials NS. (Which could be Nameless OR Named Spawn. See how that works? Ha!)

My friend who recently had twins called her kids The Parasites while they were in the oven.

By: Reba

Reba — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:27:47 +0000

Spud. I still call my kids Spud from time to time, and they know why. They think it’s cute and kind of funny. Also that I’m weird. You know why I felt no impulse to harm them when they were born? Because they were WANTED babies. Also, because my blood chemistry didn’t go wonky. Reducing a tragic incident to a way to scold women for the way they regard their pregnancies is despicable.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:34:35 +0000

My friend’s mom has one sister, and their mom refers to the older one as “Mama Peepee” and the younger as “Mama Doodoo” which is kind of unfortunately gross, but hilarious at the same time.

By: Kaethe

Kaethe — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:35:31 +0000

No doubt all the obese children were called “dumpling” or butterball” as fetii.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:03:57 +0000

Speaking of children, I just happed to turn on Maury, and today’s topic is about obese children. I couldn’t change the channel fast enough.

By: Kaethe

Kaethe — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:41:42 +0000

Man, I’m loving all the fetal names. We, too, called the first “Cletus the Fetus” until she was clearly shown to be female, at which point she became Cleo. It still sounds like a character name on a happy little fifties show. It should come with a themesong.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:55:34 +0000

I’m currently pregnant, and it depends.

I use “the baby” or Baby, and occasionally embryo/fetus. Now that we’ve gotten a good idea of the gender, and since we’ve picked out a name, he tends to use the name we’ve picked when we’re talking to each other.

I also use LC (love child) and Babat (baby batter – baking a cake kind, not swing batter swing).

I did celebrate Fetus Day, around the likely time when the embryo “graduated”.

Despite calling it a baby, we were committed to a termination if the prenatal testing had come back with serious issues. Of course, that might break Saletan’s brain, so probably best not to mention it.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:40:13 +0000

Excellent thread! No peanuts of my own, but a couple I know called theirs Zorg, which I think is a very fine name of the alien variety. (I think they switched to Zorgina when they found out it was a girl.)

When a close friend had her baby, I referred to those first few “bundle of needs” months as the “grub stage.” Thought she would be offended, but she absolutely agreed!

Best wishes to MargB — a friend of ours had at least three difficult rounds of IVF before it worked — now she and her husband have lovely twin boys, almost three years old.