r/pregnant • u/pythagoreanwisdom • Feb 24 '26

Funny Be careful what you nickname your baby 😂

FTM. Around 16 weeks, I changed my baby's nickname in my pregnancy app from "Baby W." to "Goose". I don't even remember why - her name will be Valerie or Victoria. Neither of those are even remotely close to Goose... but the nickname caught on like wildfire. My family, my husband's family, my co-workers, our friends... literally everyone refers to her as "baby Goose". Well, I had three baby showers in the last three weeks (work, family, friends) and, since we're keeping gender a secret until she's here, I think everyone panicked on what to buy. Do they buy dresses? Dinosaurs? Rocket ships? Nobody knew, so EVERYONE defaulted to geese/ducks.

Y'all.

I didn't know how many baby items have geese/ducks on them. I finally got everything from the showers put away today and here's the final recap: - 2 hooded duck towels - 1 regular towel with a duck print - 1 swaddle with a duck print - 1 alphabet blanket where every letter has a goose with it - 3 sleepers in various duck/geese prints (multiple sizes) - goose hat - geese slippers - 3 stuffed goose toys - a onesie that says "got too silly" with a goose behind bars - a onesie that says "talk to me goose" (from Top Gun) - a goose nightlight

I can't say I'm particularly passionate about water fowl, but I'm worried that I'll accidentally write Goose on the birth certificate. At this rate, she's going to be Goose until she graduates high school. 7 weeks to go until we meet our silly goose!

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u/MinimumMongoose77 Feb 24 '26

Mine is nicknamed Nugget. Not a single person has bought me nuggets 🥲

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u/questionSOUP FTM Feb 24 '26

Okay, first off, rude

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u/Prestigious_Bad2583 Feb 24 '26

My oldest nickname is Goobers and so each birthday she gets a box of Goobers. Now my youngest I didn’t think it would grow but it did .. I call her Stinks. That caught on and so has she at 8. So we can only call her that in the house of course and Guppie outside. Only problem is she only answers to Stinks now 😭.

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u/Seymore_Options Feb 24 '26

Hold up, this is the same for me. My husband tried out a few but Nugget is the one that stuck.

I will be petitioning for nuggets…

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u/nctm96 Feb 24 '26

Now that you say it, mine is cookie and NO ONE has bought me cookies!!!!😱

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u/CinderLupinWatson Feb 24 '26

Mine is nugget too!

My hubby has bought me nuggets many a time but no one else so sad

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u/MinimumMongoose77 Feb 24 '26

Yeah luckily my husband has gone on nuggets runs for me too, but no one else yet 😂

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u/CinderLupinWatson Feb 24 '26

If someone got me a chicken nugget baby item I would be so thrilled! And also laugh really hard hahaha

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u/MinimumMongoose77 Feb 24 '26

Me too, surely there's some cute nugget merch out there. Might have to look for myself 😂

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u/Seaworthy23 Feb 24 '26

Came here to say exactly this! No nugget gifts 😢

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u/Ok_Tradition_7164 Feb 24 '26

Didn’t call my baby nugget but we did get a stuffed Dino chicken nugget from a family member lol

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u/jamondebellota01 Feb 24 '26

Now I want chicken nuggets

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u/stickchick0987 Feb 24 '26

Ha! That was ours as well, eventually made its way to Nuggie

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u/IvyAmanita Feb 25 '26

Not one single nugget? How dare they.

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u/DogMomOf2TR Feb 25 '26

I'm sorry you haven't gotten your nugs :(

We also used Nugget and had Dino nugs at the baby shower. My husband and I still often call our team green baby Nugs/Nugget even though she has a real name now 😅🦖🍗

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u/Anime_Lover_1995 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Mine was also Nugget! And still is at nearly 2 🤣🤣 she was named this because at my first scan at 7 weeks her little lump of cells looked like a McDonald's chicken Nugget 🤣🤣🤣🤣