Not your average baby names

When the new royal baby arrived at the beginning of this month the whole country became obsessed with what the princess was going to be called. For weeks people had been betting actual, real life money on what name the Duke and Duchess would give to their new daughter. They settled on Charlottle Elizabeth Diana, it’s a beautiful  name but I am willing to place a bet myself that Kate and William don’t actually call her that.

You’re probably wondering what I am on about. Well, before Leo was born we spent months agonising over baby boy and girl names, like most pregnant couples do. We finally agreed on Leo James for a boy and Mia Rose for a girl. This decision was not an easy one but when our baby arrived, a boy, we knew straight away he was Leo.

Well now, 21 months in to parenthood I am thinking maybe the whole baby naming process didn’t need to be so stressful afterall, as we hardly ever call Leo by his actual name. If I need his attention or if he is being naughty then yes, I do call him Leo. But when it is just me and him going about our day just talking and playing I call him a whole range of different things.

Unlike the months of searching through lists of baby names Oli and I had to endure while I was pregnant, these weird and wonderful names come to me with absolutley no effort at all. I am not talking about your darlings and your sweethearts, I am talking about the strange little nicknames we give to our babies.

Here are a selection of my not so average baby names for Leo..

Cuddle bunny

Mr Cuddles

Stink bum

Lil bug

Mr Moo

Buggy boo

Sleepy bunny

Mr Stink

Snuggles

Bum bum

Crazy child

Oli’s contributions..

Leo the flea-o

Lee-bee

My son and heir

Now I have written them down I am concerned I may have a problem! Some sound a bit horrible but they are all always said lovingly so don’t worry. Anyone else call their children weird things like this? I am by no means saying that when your child is born you should name them something like this; all I am saying is I find it quite funny how baby naming is such a hot topic when you’re pregnant but once your baby is here you rarely call them by that name you spent months agonising over.

Any pregnant ladies reading this please don’t take this that you should call your baby something like cuddle bunny, you need to think of them making friends and getting a job and all that other stuff we stress about when choosing names. But in the walls of your own home you can call your little sweethearts any lovely name you want, until they are old enough to protest that is.

I wander what nicknames Kate and Wills have given the royal baby? Hopefully something more imaginative than little princess….

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4 Comments

  1. May 26, 2015 / 8:38 am

    You're not alone!! I rarely call my son Oliver unless I need his attention. I call him "baby" a lot, also "monkey" and throughout my whole pregnancy we cakes him "tuts". This was due to is pretended he was an Italian Mafia member whilst in womb who was sat there smoking a cigar and speaking in an Italian/american accent!! You thought that you were strange!! Lol!!!

  2. May 27, 2015 / 8:02 am

    Oh wow..you really have taken this whole thing up a level with imagining your unborn child as someone in the mafia!brilliant though..!xx

  3. Caro Davies
    May 30, 2015 / 12:23 pm

    Hahaha!! I LOVE this!!! 🙂 We have names for each other, names for the twins — The Twinkles for one 😉 — names for the cats, the cars, even our caravan (she's called Dolly — or Trolley-Dolley).

    ALL of our best friends have nicknames and my sister (who's really name is Belle) had been named 'Auntie Jingle' since the twins came along!! SO glad it's not just us!! 😉 Thanks so much for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday x

    Caro | http://www.thetwinklediaries.co.uk

  4. June 12, 2015 / 4:45 pm

    Haha you have given your caravan a nickname? Now that really is something!xx