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Mx. Coreo Jones ([personal profile] digitalemur) wrote2008-12-18 10:49 am

You are all weirdos.

My coworker's fetus is nicknamed "Whoosh-whoosh," for the sound the fetal heart monitor makes at the doctor appointments.

I told her I also have friends who have fetuses named "Monkey" and "The Manticore," and she thinks you guys are crazy.

I think you're _all_ weirdos, and if you want you can call me and I'll tell you so over the phone, Sam The Bald Eagle style. *grin* It's a good weird though!

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
My friend [livejournal.com profile] staceyspins called her fetuses The Beans (twins).

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The Manticore's older brother was known as The Wumpus once upon a time.

I also had a coworker whose was named Mustang Sally, since they were planning to name the baby Sally anyway.

[identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Animals/monsters make much more sense to me than inanimate objects or vegetables (teaspoons, beans, etc...) And you have to call it something...

[identity profile] jendaviswilson.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree, Monkey is a totally normal name. It's exactly what a 9 week ultrasound looks like!

Manticore, though, could only come from someone who named their goofy retriever after a noble warrioress. :)

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I should note that [livejournal.com profile] catinthehat is named after the same noble warrioress, and I really really want to introduce her to [livejournal.com profile] orichalcum's puppy.

[identity profile] jendaviswilson.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine there would be a simliar reaction to the one I had upon meeting a large drooly Great Dane named Jenny.

[identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I have another friend who called hers Dot, because on the ultrasound, it looked like, well, a dot :) We were hoping she'd call it Dorothy if it was a girl. (It's a boy, as it turns out, and she hasn't said what the actual name will be. But we'll find out soon!)

[identity profile] a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Icon? Sure, here you go.

I don't have anything interesting to say about naming human fetuses, but I just read that fetal horses sometimes gallop in the womb. Aww.

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Really?!? That's wacky!

[identity profile] den-down-unda.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the names friends and family gave their fetuses: Paprika (my then-three-year-old goddaughter describing her incipient younger sister), Laszlo, Oatmeal, Regagox (requires some explanation), Riboflavin, Lubomir, Stormy, Sodapop (Soda for short), Parasite.

[identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Regagox (requires some explanation)

Oh yeah, 'cause 'Riboflavin' and 'Lubomir' are totally obvious names for a fetus :)

[identity profile] den-down-unda.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Compared to 'Regagox' they are.

[identity profile] jendaviswilson.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm assuming "Oatmeal" came from what the mom could eat those first few months. In that case I should have called mine "Chocolate milk" or "pumpkin pie".

[identity profile] den-down-unda.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I have no idea. It was explained to me, but I forgot.

[identity profile] subgirl.livejournal.com 2008-12-19 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
here via ewin...

my sister named hers "Peanut" and that just grossed me out to no end.
My opinion: do not name your fetus after EDIBLES.

*shudder*