Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!cb From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (C Blesch) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Naming the fetus Message-ID: <691@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:51:10 EST Article-I.D.: hlwpc.691 Posted: Mon Mar 17 13:51:10 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 00:45:18 EST References: <9535@ucla-cs.ARPA> <8100001@uiucdcsp> <549@watdragon.UUCP> <320@drivax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 11 >> Our third child is still enwombed, but has a name: Kelly. We call the >> fetus Kelly. > We called our daughter Allyson "Toid" until she was born. . . . > for Fetoid, of course. My mother kept calling me "Bonnie Jean" before I > was born. I think I turned out male to spite her more than anything else. We called our first-born "Stanley" while he was still in utero, as in "Fine mess you've gotten us into now, Stanley!" Carl Blesch