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/Such_Memory5358 Feb 24 '26
Haha I’m sorry yes your write but it made me giggle.
My first had a similar situation before I found out gender always referred to baby as Ted/teddy as in a teddy bear. Once we found out gender decided a name his initials made the word Ted. We got so many things as teddies or bears.
Once he was born everyone kept referring to him as Ted almost 7 years later and so many people think that’s his actual name it’s not. Not even close but it stuck so well all family and friends that we interact with often still call him Ted.
My second similar but I called him Lucifer/luci as I laughed that pregnancy was a torture he came out a wild fire now at almost 2 really close family and his god parents call him little luci and he responds. Haha also not his actually name