'Our Little Bump': As Prince Harry Shares His Baby Nickname, Parents Reveal Theirs

Prince Harry has debuted his and Meghan’s nickname for their baby-to-be while giving a speech in New Zealand during the couple’s royal tour.

Telling the crowds how happy he was to be visiting, Harry said: “From myself and my wife and our little bump, we are so grateful to be here. We bring blessings from my grandmother the Queen and our family.”

Calling your impending arrival a “little bump” isn’t so unusual, so we decided to ask our readers what nicknames they gave their babies before they were born.

From Little Nittle to Kate-Short-For-Bob, here’s what we got...

Button

Button - fortunately turned out cute as!
— Emma Oliver (@Em_Oliver_) October 30, 2018

Fruitman

We called our 2nd Fruitman because we had one of those books that tells you how big your baby is relative to a fruit which we used to read to our oldest child and she came up with it!
— maria.tanner (@mashylondon) October 30, 2018

Moomin

We called him The Moomin, actually we still call him Moomin occasionally...
— EMPRA (@EMPRA) October 30, 2018

Pumpkin

Pumpkin. And not just for Halloween!
— Sophie Attwood (@SophiaEAttwood) October 30, 2018

Madam and Hiccup

My first was called Madam because that’s exactly what ‘she’ was (according to our gender scan). Until I gave birth to a boy 😂.

My second was called Hiccup because that’s all he ever did 😂
— Victoria Fisher. (@lifeintheginger) October 30, 2018

Prince Pork Chop

Mine was called Prince Porkchop haha.
— Eleni Bertos (@EleniBertos) October 30, 2018

Little Nittle and Buba

My first was "little nittle" and my second was "buba"
— gingin&roo (@GinginRoo) October 30, 2018

Splodge and Dot

Baby number one was Splodge while baby number two (due this week) has been Dot. Both because we had to have early scans around six/seven weeks and they looked like splodges and dots respectively.
— Sarah Henderson (@shh_1984) October 30, 2018

Schrodenberg and Blast

Schrodenberg for the first one (a portmanteau of Schrodinger and Heisenberg- for less high brow reasons than it sounds) and Blast for my second (short for Blastocyst)
— Abi Reeley (@MrsReeley) October 30, 2018

KSFB and Ponti

1st 'Kate-short-for-Bob', aka KSFB - turned out to be a girl. 2nd Ponti (short for 'Teeny-tiny-Pontipine', but we didn't want KSFB to think I was actually having a Pontipine) - boy
— Clawdyer Zombie (@ukseennotseen) October 30, 2018

And a few more less unusual ones...

Bumperoo
— Keel (@Keel13854197) October 30, 2018

Bean!
— Sara Donnelly (@SaraDonnellyPR) October 30, 2018

Mollie bump as that’s her name now 💕
— Mummy's Diary (@katie4_16) October 30, 2018

What did you call your bump? Get involved in the conversation on Twitter here.

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