Is it wrong to call my unborn child "the fetus"?

[rucky]

it grosses people out for some reason. my wife hates it, too.

[gmoney]

1. Call it "Umbert"

If you really wanna creep people out...

www.umberttheunborn.com/

[JohnKleeb]

2. do you know what the kid's gender is gonna be?

Oh and congrads, when my youngest brother was a fetus, we knew what gender he was gonna be and I believe named him before his birth.

[rucky]

16. Girl fetus

[JohnKleeb]

28. thought of names yet?

[Droopy]

3. I think you should call it whatever your wife wants you to.

We don't need any unhappy pregnant ladies.

[Karenina]

21. REALLY!

Droopy's tellin' the TRUTH!

[Pithlet]

4. It is if your wife hates it.

Especially if she's queezy to begin with. Plus, the hormones are hell. Find some cutesy name, like peanut, or beta.

[theivoryqueen]

13. queezy is also a good name.

[lapfog_1]

5. If it's still early

call it the zygote... or if its a little later,
a differentiated diploid organism.

Just being technically accurate.

[Pithlet]

6. "differentiated diploid organism"

Say that 10 times really fast.

[rucky]

17. maybe DDO for short

thanks

[DarkPhenyx]

7. No it isn't.

IMHO of course.

Blessings and power to you and your fetus.

[TlalocW]

8. How far along is your wife?

Is it too late to call it the blastula or gastrula?

TlalocW

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

23. They know it's a girl

so I'd say, yeah, it's WAY too late for those names, LOL!

[Rowdyboy]

9. My friend called my god-daughter's fetus "Malvina Winona"

and she turned out great (eventually named Katie). Another friends called her zygote "Bodacious Moonrabbit" and threatened to name her that. Grandma paid up and the baby was named Addie.

Bargaining with grandparents is essential.

[SoCalDem]

10. Call it what your wife wants it called

You will be glad in the long run :)

congrats :)

[CanuckAmok]

11. The problem is "The Fetus" Is this year's Caitlin/Dylan....

I think "Blobbo" is much more original

[rucky]

18. In 100 years, I imagine Willard Scott on the Today Show

announcing Blobbo's birthday on TV.

I hope they can unfreeze my head in time to see it.

[theivoryqueen]

12. technically, it's okay long as you stop by the time it's two.

or when it stops breastfeeding, whichever comes first.

[Blue-Jay]

14. Some friends of mine called theirs "Lump"

Until she was born. Then she was "Young Miss Lump"

(kidding. Sarah)

[MercutioATC]

15. Try "The Parasite"

...that's really what it is at this stage...

:)

[rucky]

19. placenta-sucking parasite

much less gross than fetus. thanks!

[onebigbadwulf]

20. How about "possible future child"?

That might work

[Mara Steele]

22. It does seem kind of cold,

If you are planning on birthing & raising "it", seems you should treat it less clinically...

Just IMO, though...

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

24. Well

what are you going to name the female child?

Call it that.

Our Katie (really Katherine) was called Katie from 20 weeks on (when we found out she was a she).

But then we're kinda sentimental.

And we kept referring to her as "it" before that and it just didn't seem right.

"It kicked."

[davsand]

25. "The baby" isn't acceptable to you?

At about 16 weeks i felt her kick for the fist time and she became "the baby" to me. Even the Perinatologist was on board when he tried to do the Amnio and couldn't get it done because of how she was laying. I will NEVER forget him saying, "It is just poor form to skewer the baby when you do an amnio."

We DID play with the name "Dread Pirate _____" (from the Princess Bride where the Dread Pirate Roberts was a name that was handed on from one guy to the next)

My SIL was convinced that we were just silly enough to actually call a kid Dread Pirate (last name here)

Laura

[LSU_Subversive]

26. LOL, I don't think it's wrong, I think it's funny as hell

I'm not sure why I think it's funny.

[kodi]

27. I was always kinda' partial to Festus

loved gunsmoke.

[bookfreak]

29. Nah....

If Michael Jackson can call his born child "Blanket" then why can't you call your unborn child "the fetus"? It's not an incorrect name now is it?

[Kamikaze]

30. I invoke George Carlin

And I heavily paraphrase...

"If these people think a fetus is a person, then why do they say they have three children and one on the way instead of saying they have four children? I'm just looking for some consistency in these pro-life arguments here."

[slutticus]

31. Of course it's OK!

I'm even going to name my first born "Fetus"!

:P

[yellowcanine]

32. It's better than calling it "the feces". Tell your wife that - but do it

when she is not holding anything that could be used to hurt you.