# Fetus Nicknames

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 15, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489 "2011-04-15T15:08:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/61 "2011-04-18T18:16:53Z")

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Mine was either “Lumpy” or “Parasite”, depending on my wife’s degree of morning sickness.

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/62 "2011-04-18T19:54:58Z")

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Preggo.

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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/63 "2011-04-18T20:03:08Z")

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The nickname can become [the middle name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bean_Cobain) on the birth certificate.

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**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/64 "2011-04-18T20:20:15Z")

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> [@Kozmik](#):
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> The nickname can become [the middle name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bean_Cobain) on the birth certificate.

Well, it _can_, but I wouldn’t choose to follow in the footsteps of Courtney Love.

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**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/65 "2011-04-18T23:03:11Z")

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> [@Kozmik](#):
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> The nickname can become [the middle name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bean_Cobain) on the birth certificate.

I was talking with some guy online and he says his name was supposed to be Todd, but when it was handwritten down, the first “d” didn’t go all the way up, so it looked like an “a”. When the birth certificate was printed, his name was officially Toad instead of Todd. Although he always gave his name as Todd.

I asked him why his parents didn’t just have the birth certificate corrected; it’s no difficult process. He gave me several lame excuses why the state refused to change it, but like I said, I know that it’s easy enough to do. Finally he admitted that his mother was just too lazy and it never caused him any problems in school.

By the time he was 18, the expressions “Like, totally!” and “Awesome!” were popular and somebody was having fun with his name, “Like, TOADly.” Then there was the Roadkill Grill menu item, Awesome Possum, and he adopted the name Toadly Ossum. I won’t vouch for the validity of the story, but it was fun hearing him tell it.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fetus-nicknames/578489/66 "2011-04-18T23:14:56Z")

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Hitchhiker.

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