Name Calling

Hi girlys! Not sure if I’m just being weird or if this is “normal”. So we have been set on baby names for quite a long time, way before we even discussed having babies or thought about it in the close future. So choosing our baby boys name was very straight forward, but weirdly when I speak of him, I only refer to him as baby boy or little man or something like that, btw he isn’t born yet. I find it so odd to talk about him and call him by his name. Sometimes I’m a little like “is this the right name” but more in terms of is it a good enough name for him not that I don’t like it. I just can’t wrap my head around it and say the name, not even in my head or on a text message, and everytime someone asks me about the name I feel weird telling them, as if they would judge me for it. Am I just being weird? 😅

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i feel like this may be because you can’t really put a face to the name yet? maybe you just can’t comprehend that he really is like a human if that makes sense🤣x

@remy yeah that actually does make sense in a way 😄 x

I felt this way for about 2 weeks after my son was born. I was second guessing if we should have called him that, now I can't imagine calling him anything else. We picked the name before we found out we were having a boy.

I feel the same way. He’s “the baby” or “the wee man” saying his name just feels strange. But I am 100% set on his name so I think it’s just cause I can’t put a face to the name yet x

We were exactly the same. Had our name picked for a long time but neither of us referred to her by her name until weeks after she was born. It was always “the baby” or “bubba” or “bubs”. It just felt weird saying her name or calling her it. Shes now 8 weeks and we use her name often. She still gets calls “bubs” or “bubba” quite often but it’s definitely comfortable now calling her by her actual name

We called our baby “spud” we gave him a nickname partly because we didn’t want other people to know his name and because we hadn’t seen his face to call him the name! He’s still getting called spud now but Jonah suits him perfectly well!x

Before we knew our little boys gender, he was known as Nugget and then when we found out he was a boy, we just referred him as “he” because we felt weird calling him by a name when he wasn’t born yet even though we had a name locked in. Felt totally naturally as soon as he was born though!

I think maybe it’s just surreal? We were the same with our first. It feels like - even though we’d had that name picked out forever - suddenly using it was too real before he was actually here and safe. The next two have been hard for a different reason as we’ve never come up with/agree on a name before we got to hospital 🤣🙈

I had names picked for all 3 of my babies early on. I only referred to my first by his nickname (yes he even had a nickname before he was born). I’d call my second baby. My third was baby g (baby girl). I don’t think it’s weird at all. Agree that it’s probably hard to put the name to the face and question whether the actual name would fit them ❤️