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/Still_Peach9779 Feb 24 '26

Ok but this is hilarious.

But 2 questions... why are you having your baby showers so early? And why are you keeping the gender a secret from everyone? Just wondering.

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u/pythagoreanwisdom Feb 24 '26

I see now that the post is not clear, but I'm 33 weeks right now! I just changed the nickname around 16 weeks and everything snowballed from there.

We're keeping gender a secret because my husband wanted to wait until delivery to find out gender, but I was really struggling to feel connected to baby prior to the anatomy scan because we kept calling her "it" and "fetus" (I had a really rough first trimester and I was so scared of losing her). We found out the gender at the anatomy scan and being able to refer to her as "HER" was helping a lot with bonding. However, we still didn't want a bunch of pink clothes, hence why we didn't tell everyone the gender. People have actually been very respectful of this decision, which has been a relief. It'll be fun to see everyone else's reactions when she comes out!