https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:22:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-441304 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:23:52 +0000 shopaholic 441304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We usually call her by her name and so do family &amp; friends who already know. I talk to her too, so I hope when she comes out she will already recognize our voices and her name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-441098 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:01:00 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 441098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No because we didn't have a name for her until a week before she was born :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-441088 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:57:34 +0000 Crisark 441088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's been Anna since we found she was a she lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-441061 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:45:50 +0000 pl0508 441061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yep! we call him by his name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440749 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:02:59 +0000 Alivoo01 440749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We'd probably call him/her "the baby" until s/he is born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440696 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:35:21 +0000 plaidpants 440696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO didn't have a name until she was almost 36 hours old, so we just called her "the baby" or Blinky.</p> <p>@runnerd: In my family, my cousins and I (all in our late 20s/early 30s) are still "Baby [whatever your name is]" occasionally. It's especially funny now that I have a baby of my own. When I showed up at Thanksgiving, my uncle said, "It's Baby Plaidpants...with her baby! That's weird." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440687 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:25:54 +0000 sera_87 440687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we just called him "the baby" until he was born. Call me crazy but I felt it was kind of jinxing it to call him by his name when he was still in utero. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440673 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:11:52 +0000 ValentineMommy 440673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We still call him mostly by his nicknames "Coconut" and "baby bee". Every once in awhile when talking about him will we refer to him by his name, but it's still coconut when talking to him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440636 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:21:11 +0000 sorrycharlie 440636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope I didn't call her by her name, not regularly anyway. In conversation I referred to her by the baby or her name. Once in awhile I talked to her by her name but only once or twice. It felt weird not having met her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440619 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:53:45 +0000 Mrs. Lovejoy 440619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: That's ok. We don't know the gender yet, but I have a feeling we'll be calling him/her by their name in 2 weeks when we find out and pick the name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440238 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:57 +0000 blackbird 440238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She doesn't have a name yet, so we're still calling her by a nickname. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440158 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:58:12 +0000 Smurfette 440158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: ha! I have a feeling DH will be calling her Nuggs still when she is 15. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440151 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:46:37 +0000 ladyfingers 440151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, apparently I'm weird. I've called him by his name (both to others and when talking to him) since we found out it was a boy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440147 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:38:45 +0000 MamaMoose 440147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: my LO is two weeks old and we still call her nugget : ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440133 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:07:43 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 440133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We called our son "the dude" before he arrived - I was totally freaked out by the idea of using his name - partially Jewish superstition, partially not wanting others to know (And share opinions) before he was born, and part just wanting to wait til we knew the name fit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440127 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:49:20 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 440127@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we've already started calling him by his name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440120 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:36:17 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 440120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We called her lemon until the day she was born and then immediately switched to her name. We thought we'd still call her lemon as a nickname, but after she was no longer a belly baby, it just didn't fit. Part of not using the name was superstition and part was that lemon just seemed to fit.</p> <p>We knew her sex at 13 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440100 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:02:25 +0000 Smurfette 440100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We still her nugget, or Nuggs for short, even though we now know the gender and her name. But we aren't telling the name till she is born, so it makes it a lot easier for me to not slip up when DH and I don't even use her name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440096 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:54:30 +0000 hilsy85 440096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No I always felt weird referring to him by a name. We didn't use his name til he was born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-440055 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:03:43 +0000 coruscations 440055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before we found out, I had always thought it was really weird to call a baby by name before it was born (or even to give a baby a name at all before birth). But after we found out we had a girl, we picked out a name right away and always called her by her name. We're not telling anyone else her name until she's born though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439978 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:20:48 +0000 Sammyfab 439978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Once we found out the gender we started testing out baby names and we would call him a different name each week. We decided on our name after 4-5 weeks so we called him by name from that point on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439950 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:34:43 +0000 Adira 439950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes I refer to him by his name, but mostly I still just call him "the baby." It feels weird to call him by his name for now, haha. Though my friends that know his name call him by his name, and I find that even more bizarre! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439945 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:23:57 +0000 Cupcake 439945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We call him BB... Short for baby boy :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439921 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:57:59 +0000 mrskc 439921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chrispygal: I did the same thing! </p> <p>I felt weird about calling him by his name before he was born so we always told people we weren't sure of a name bc I didn't want other pp calling him by his name too. He's 8 weeks and I still rarely refer to him by name. I usually call him baby, munchkin or bubs </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439918 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:53:06 +0000 Laneybugsmommy 439918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We called our daughter Munchkin the entire pregnancy. It was the term we used before finding out gender and it just stuck even after finding out she was a girl. When she was born though, munchkin just didn't seem to stick anymore, and she ended up being called Peanut (even to this day at 20 months old). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439872 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:50:40 +0000 .twist. 439872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are planning on finding out the gender, but I don't think we'll call it by name. We're going to have a few of our favourite names so when I give birth we can see what name it really looks like. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439868 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:48:07 +0000 lemondrop 439868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, of course we didn't decide until closer to the end and we were keeping it a secret. Mostly we just kept with the same nicknames we'd been calling him ask along. The few times we called him by his name were definitely weird. Once he arrived it wasn't too strange, of course I was too tired to care. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439852 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:29:30 +0000 mlm2934 439852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>when my sister was pregnant with her last child, we all called him "baby joshua", then after he was born, it stuck for a long time. i called him baby joshua until he was close to 1 year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439847 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:22:48 +0000 sslm 439847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's weird to me too. We call her "she" or just "the baby". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/once-you-found-out-gender-did-you-call-your-baby-by-their-name#post-439832 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:13:00 +0000 JerricaBenton 439832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just call her 'the baby.' We both said we felt the same way about it feeling weird to call her by her name before she is born. I don't know why but it does. I guess maybe part of it is that even though we are decided on the name, until it's down on the birth certificate anything could happen and I don't want to have been calling her the wrong name? Idk - I just know it doesn't feel right for us. </p>