The first one was Alien and the second one Parasite. Not after they were born, though, since they then stopped resembling those namesakes.
My first was Neep (Scottish for Turnip, which was my nickname in high school as inspired by my surname). One of my co-workers thought she looked like a duck on my scan and so we also called her The Duck.
My second is Speck, although it is waaaaay past being a speck now and is the most enormous freaking lump. I look like I’m carrying multiples.
Either Jellybean or Nameless, depending on my mood.
My nephew was Uncle Bill, from my then 3 1/2-year-old niece’s naming suggestion. I was dissapointed they didn’t use William as one of his middle names.
I’ve heard peanut and jellybean used a lot. A friend was recently using “the critter”.
I started using “Krang” for a friend’s unborn baby, because he was a little creature sitting in her abdomen and controlling her whole body. I bought her this T-shirt to wear, and she loved it.
My sister-in-law doesn’t want to use the name they’ve picked out until after their son is born, so they’re using “Derald” to refer to him for now, so they don’t slip and use the real name. “Derald” is some sort of inside joke I’m not sure I understand.
That made me do a double-take - I call my husband Squishy. When we spend time together, we squish. This happened long before Finding Nemo. They must have stolen it from me.
I’ve never heard of this fetus-naming thing before. I think it’s fantastic.
Love it. We have no babies but Grouchasauruses roam our apartment from time to time.
Squirt, Tadpole, Franky are our top choices right now. Tadpole came from the first ultrasound, and now we are at 21 weeks and Taddy has stuck around. We are also not finding out so it makes it important to stick with one for all the relatives! 
I loved the Steve McQueen one!
So happy for you! Wonderful news! Congratulations! :D:)
We’re having our first child in about a month, and have been calling him or her “Kiddo” for now.
My wife named our daughter to be Cletus as in Cletus the Fetus
Recently my friend’s step daughter kept referring to hers as Jack. She knew she was having a boy, so we all foolishly assumed she’d already named him. Alas, she named him something else entirely.
I have always wondered why girls cannot be the “junior” of the mother…as in Tiffany Jr. or Kathy Jr. etc.
Is there a law or somethin’?
My niece was “Stanley Hilarious” before she was born. The reasoning behind this is that my sister is weird.
Our first was Skippy - we didn’t find out the gender until she was born. With the current resident, we know she’s a girl, which we’ve told people. We have also decided on her names, but we haven’t told anyone those. She started out as Bean, but she’s been Junior pretty consistently for the last couple of months. We never refer to her by her “real” name, I don’t even do it when it’s just her and me having a private chat! I was talking to a friend about this very subject the other day, and she agreed that she never used her childrens’ real names before they were born either.
Eh? Have you never had any pregnant friends or relatives? What’s this “…in Australia” bullshit?
My favourites so far have been “Egg” and “Big Bird” (named by the then 3-year-old)
A friend of mine called hers Toby after baby-to-be. He is now 38 and has had two Tobys of his own.
I have no idea on the name thing but I did want to send you my congratulations.
Did Thor turn out to be named Simon, by any chance? I also have a friend whose unborn son was called Thor, and we have also not let it go (also much to the mom’s dismay).
It’s been so long ago (1978), I didn’t remember it until now. It was “Peckerhead,” although I don’t recall it being an editorial comment at the time.
My wife wouldn’t let me call ours Squirt, because I showed her this shirt. She didn’t think it was as funny as I did.
We called our first “Trigger” after a character in Mork & Mindy said she was naming her baby that “because it works for either a boy or a girl.”
The second time, after we found out my wife was carrying twin boys, we just called them “the guys.”