# What do you think of the term "baby bump"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386 "2012-04-20T07:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/1 "2012-04-20T07:06:08Z")
It seems that the latest buzz word I keep hearing is “baby bump”, referring to a pregnant woman’s stomach. I swear that not since every other word out of Nancy Grace’s mouth was “Tot Mom” have two words been so annoying to me. Anytime I read it in an article I want to jump through the monitor and strangle the author. Does this stupid phrase annoy anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/2 "2012-04-20T07:43:06Z")
Tot mom, yummy mummy, baby daddy, preggo: all make me irritable, queasy, irrational and emotional (the four horsemen of the Pregopolypse). Baby bump: doesn’t. I guess it’s a YMMV thing. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/3 "2012-04-20T07:59:42Z")
Yeah, not feeling the hate for baby bump. ---
**Author:** ![Killswitch\_Stunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@Killswitch\_Stunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Killswitch_Stunner)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/4 "2012-04-20T08:24:53Z")
Baby bump isn’t offensive at all plus it’s catchy. And that’s exactly what it is, a bump sticking out thanks to a baby. lol ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/5 "2012-04-20T09:42:18Z")
I though the term referred to the start of the second trimester (when a pregnant woman begins to show) and to the slight enlargement of the woman’s lower belly. If she’s not showing there’s no bump, if she’s beyond the 5th month it’s more of a hill than a bump, and in any case it may be her tummy but it’s most definitely not her stomach: she’s pregnant, not a cannibal! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/6 "2012-04-20T12:30:33Z")
I hate the phrase and I hate babies even more. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/7 "2012-04-20T12:40:39Z")
I hate “we’re pregnant” and the use of “baby” without “the”, “a” or “your” (baby will need a nap), but I feel baby bump s a pretty factual description. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/8 "2012-04-20T12:49:36Z")
“Baby bump”, “reached out” and “Breaking News” (which often is neither breaking nor all that important anyway), are my current major bugaboos. Loathe 'em all. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/9 "2012-04-20T12:57:30Z")
I think it’s a little silly, but it doesn’t make me stabby. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/10 "2012-04-20T13:06:41Z")
I hate it and it does make me stabby. I don’t like most cutesy terms for pregnancy, though. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/11 "2012-04-20T13:07:40Z")
No more offensive than “lovely lady lumps”. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/12 "2012-04-20T13:20:03Z")
Dislike it mainly because of the gossip rags that use it. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/13 "2012-04-20T13:27:47Z")
I hated it until I got one of my own, then it really becomes a good descriptor. As in, “It’s hard to hug you really good because my baby bump is in the way.” or “I totally just knocked that coffee cup right off the table with my baby bump.” The reason I hated it before was, like **Megabee** , because of it’s use in gossip magazines. A picture of a woman with a big arrow labelled “BUMP!” pointed at her midsection will always annoy me. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/14 "2012-04-20T14:43:39Z")
Tacky. Good thing it’s easy to avoid media that use the term and its ilk. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/15 "2012-04-20T14:50:44Z")
Annoying and idiotic- pretty much the same as any term coined or regularly employed by the celebrity-watching press. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/16 "2012-04-20T14:55:30Z")
Ghetto. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/17 "2012-04-20T15:12:59Z")
It annoys me the way it’s used to talk about celebrities, it seems so tacky and fake-cutsy to me. When I had one of my own, I was bumping into things all the time (in a way that would have been comic if it wasn’t so annoying), so it almost seems to sound more natural to me as a verb. So basically what **Zjestika** said, I see on preview. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/18 "2012-04-20T15:19:02Z")
I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/19 "2012-04-20T16:19:56Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > No more offensive than “lovely lady lumps”. My bump, my bump my bump my bump, you love my baby bump, you love my baby bump … you can look but you can’t touch it if you touch it Imma start some drama. You don’t want no drama. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386/20 "2012-04-20T16:23:16Z")
I made a previous [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=604155) about it. As I stated there, it’s not a “bump.” When you hit your head you get a bump on your head. When an insect bites you, you get a bump on your skin. That enormous swelling of your abdomen that looks like another being is taking over your body (because it is)? Yea, that’s not a bump. I think it started in celebrity rags to try to make it seem as if these glorified movie starts don’t have huge bellies, they have a “baby bump.” Doesn’t that sound so tiny and cute? And yes, I have been married to a pregnant woman. My beautiful daughter was the result. But let’s be realistic here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-term-baby-bump/619386.md?page=2)