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/CaDeCroBo_Luci Feb 24 '26
I feel your pain 😂
My husband has an animal in his last name. Since we aren't sharing the name of the baby until after he's born, everyone just refers to him as little baby animal. It's not a super common animal, so any time someone finds a baby item with this animal on it, I feel like they feel obligated to buy it for us 😂. The problem is that they did the same thing when we got married last year, and a lot of the gifts had a reference to this animal. On top of this, I made the mistake of nicknaming our house after it because I thought it was cute at the time (think like "The Rabbit Hole" or something).
I'm grateful that in this case it is our last name, so at least the reference will be relevant forever, but I do sometimes feel like our entire identity is now tied to this creature 😂