Calling Baby by its name?

[m_t_rose]

OMG m_t_rose

How are you keeping that secret!!! Don't you worry about slipping up! ANd what about the shopping benefits of finding out!

I'm amazed only 1 of a couple can know!

I am really careful when I am talking about the baby to just say "it" and "baby". I hired a painter to do up the nursery and have bought most of the stuff myself with my mom. He doesn't like shopping and if its something I really need his opinion on then I show him a boy and girl version. Hopefully it wont slip I will keep you informed.

 

[lindypops]

Our LO was originally Yogi, then when we found out we immediately started calling her Eve. It feels rights and I think it's helping both of us bond with her more.

Like others have said, I just hope she's definitely a girl - or she's going to have some identity issues!

 

[HeidiLSparks]

We call her by her name Have since we found out.

 

[Mary Jo]

Long before I was pregnant, OH and I had agreed on a potential boy name. Then when I WAS pregnant, it got on my nerves when OH called him by that name because we didn't know he was a boy at that point; also OH would say the name in a comedy Northern Irish accent (the name is of one of the characters in Cold Feet, if anyone can guess from that!) which really started to grate after a few weeks.

So we didn't have a nickname for a while, and then decided randomly to call baby Brenda. That stuck till the scan showed Brenda was a boy.

Since then we have two potential names, which we have not settled on for certain because I want to keep my options open and am still looking, but OH is refusing all my other suggestions. So we're calling him by both potential names, run together. there is a chance that it will end up his actual name (but we'd call him only by the first name) but at the moment there's more of a chance that we'll turn the names around and its current second name will become its first name, with perhaps a different middle name...

We have told people the names we like but we won't tell them what we've settled on till the wee boy is born.

 

[trace123]

we call our baby by his name i thnk it is nice and everyone will get used to calling him by his name not (how is he or hows the baby).xx

 

[MummyBurgo]

With our 1st we wanted to call him oliver, but MIL kept calling him it and we went right off it lol. So we picked another name and didnt tell anyone till he was born. And we wont be telling anyone this LO's name till he arrives.

 

[lissagayle]

I just found out that we are having a girl, We had picked out the name lilly. My OH was the first one to start callling her by her name whenever he sees me. I do sometimes and then sometimes I still just call her baby

 

[Lottie86]

We usually call him Kermit still (or Sprog lol) even though his name is decided. Mum called him by his name the other day and it was so weird! Admittedly not as weird as it was getting a "Happy Birthday from your son" card signed with his name on my birthday a few weeks ago.

 

[Elliebank]

We've been calling her Katie since we first considered that name - even before we decided for definate, but now we've called her that so much I couldn't imagine calling her anything else. It actually feels weird now if I refer to her as 'the baby'.

Totally up to you though hon, like everyone's said - there's no right or wrong

 

[golcarlilly]

I have been calling him by the name we have chosen and slipped up and said it in front of my Mum (we weren't supposed to be telling anyone ) DH was a bit cross! then my Mum confessed she had slipped up and said it in front of my sis - I think we may as well just announce it to the world now!!

 

[Boothh]

weve been calling the baby jesse since about 14weeks when we picked jessica or jesse for our girl and boy names, so weve always called him jesse even before we knew he was a boy,

my family call him woody though like toystory cus of jessie and woody haha, x

 

[Lorien]

we go back and forth between his name (Jack) and a variety of endearments (Jackieboy etc.) and 'the baby' when we're speaking ABOUT him, rather than TO him. When my husband or I specifically addresses my bump, we call him by his name. In the abstract, he is the baby.