The term "COVID Baby"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got pregnant in April, just had my baby, and I find it tacky when someone calls DD a Covid baby, but mostly because that means they're thinking about when me and DH had sex, which I just think is super weird. Yes. We had sex in quarantine. Can we talk about osmething else now?

But you were fine posting ultrasound photos and/or pregnant tests, announcing your due date, or having a gender reveal? Your baby is a living reminder of when you had sex for everyone you informed of their impending arrival.

And you should never celebrate your child's birthday either! No one needs a yearly reminder that you had sex 9 months before that date one time.

[Anonymous]

Well you do in fact have a COVID era baby. You will hear it the rest of their lives.

[Anonymous]

I am pregnant and also think the term covid baby is obnoxious. We haven’t told anyone about the pregnancy yet but I think if anyone says that alluding to having lots of sex while quarantined I’ll just say, what, are you having tons of sex or something while you’re home so much?

I think that people often let boundaries fly out the window when talking to pregnant people and it’s rude. My mother called every day asking if I’m dilated or if my mucus plug came out when I was approaching my due date with my first and I thought those were such strange questions to ask someone. Especially because we don’t have a close relationship. For that reason, I’m not sharing my due date this time around just so people can’t fixate on it.

[Anonymous]

Some people just love to get offended. Focus on how lucky you are to have a healthy baby.

I had a “government shutdown” baby even though neither DH nor I work for the government and we had fertility treatments. Didn’t bother me at all. I had a lot else to think about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am pregnant and also think the term covid baby is obnoxious. We haven’t told anyone about the pregnancy yet but I think if anyone says that alluding to having lots of sex while quarantined I’ll just say, what, are you having tons of sex or something while you’re home so much?

I think that people often let boundaries fly out the window when talking to pregnant people and it’s rude. My mother called every day asking if I’m dilated or if my mucus plug came out when I was approaching my due date with my first and I thought those were such strange questions to ask someone. Especially because we don’t have a close relationship. For that reason, I’m not sharing my due date this time around just so people can’t fixate on it.

I think you'll sound unhinged and not very clever if that's the best comeback you can come up with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this term annoy you or offend you?

I got pregnant is January DD is 4 months now. I went to get my 2nd dose of my vaccine and the nurse said oh a covid baby.

Would this offend or annoy you?

Neither. She doesn't mean it. Some things are just idle chit chat, OP. Don't take everything so seriously.

+1

[Anonymous]

The term I prefer is coronial I had my coronial in December

On a more serious note, my SIL mentioned similar the other day - that we were busy living our important career-driven, travel-filled lives and then only decided to have a baby because we had nothing else to do. And my DH got upset. I took it as a joke at first but now I see his point - we had a lot of heartache and planning to get us where we are. And a lot of sex

[Anonymous]

I have a Super Bowl baby. My husband and I are both Philadelphia natives and huge Eagles fans. The Eagles won the Super Bowl on February 4th, 2018. Our son was born on November 1st, 2018. We laugh about it - why not laugh instead of getting offended. Life is too short...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get annoyed—but not offended—when people refer to my baby as a quarantine baby. We ended up doing fertility treatments and we had our IUI at the end of February 2020. Found out the day everything shut down that I was pregnant. I choose not to be offended by it, but it does annoy me that my much desired, expensive in time and money to conceive baby is essentially openly described as an accident because people have no idea how hard we tried to have him.

Did you consider that maybe that they just meant that you had a baby during covid?

+1. I don’t think the term means what you think it means?

What does “someone’s been busy during quarantine?” mean?

What? This is not what the thread is about. It’s about a baby being referred to as a COVID baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am pregnant and also think the term covid baby is obnoxious. We haven’t told anyone about the pregnancy yet but I think if anyone says that alluding to having lots of sex while quarantined I’ll just say, what, are you having tons of sex or something while you’re home so much?

I think that people often let boundaries fly out the window when talking to pregnant people and it’s rude. My mother called every day asking if I’m dilated or if my mucus plug came out when I was approaching my due date with my first and I thought those were such strange questions to ask someone. Especially because we don’t have a close relationship. For that reason, I’m not sharing my due date this time around just so people can’t fixate on it.

I think you'll sound unhinged and not very clever if that's the best comeback you can come up with.

Haha the “unhinged” person always shows up to these threads Welcome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got pregnant in April, just had my baby, and I find it tacky when someone calls DD a Covid baby, but mostly because that means they're thinking about when me and DH had sex, which I just think is super weird. Yes. We had sex in quarantine. Can we talk about osmething else now?

But you were fine posting ultrasound photos and/or pregnant tests, announcing your due date, or having a gender reveal? Your baby is a living reminder of when you had sex for everyone you informed of their impending arrival.

I didn’t do any of those things. I posted a picture of me pregnant at 7 months, that’s it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got pregnant in April, just had my baby, and I find it tacky when someone calls DD a Covid baby, but mostly because that means they're thinking about when me and DH had sex, which I just think is super weird. Yes. We had sex in quarantine. Can we talk about osmething else now?

But you were fine posting ultrasound photos and/or pregnant tests, announcing your due date, or having a gender reveal? Your baby is a living reminder of when you had sex for everyone you informed of their impending arrival.

And you should never celebrate your child's birthday either! No one needs a yearly reminder that you had sex 9 months before that date one time.

Well that’s kind of my point. When you call a kid a Covid baby your specifically bringing up when they were conceived. Idk, if you like alluding to when your friends and family have sex, that’s fine I guess. You do you. But it may make them uncomfortable. I don’t have to like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a Super Bowl baby. My husband and I are both Philadelphia natives and huge Eagles fans. The Eagles won the Super Bowl on February 4th, 2018. Our son was born on November 1st, 2018. We laugh about it - why not laugh instead of getting offended. Life is too short...

My Ravens Super Bowl baby turned 7 at the end of October. We're huge fans and bought a Super Bowl champs onesie after we "celebrated" as a joke. It got worn during the following football season. I love that there's a story.

Covid is not robbing you of a newborn experience--it's changing the experience dramatically, and having your child occasionally referenced as a Covid baby is part of that. It's part of the kid's story now, so embrace it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got pregnant in April, just had my baby, and I find it tacky when someone calls DD a Covid baby, but mostly because that means they're thinking about when me and DH had sex, which I just think is super weird. Yes. We had sex in quarantine. Can we talk about osmething else now?

But you were fine posting ultrasound photos and/or pregnant tests, announcing your due date, or having a gender reveal? Your baby is a living reminder of when you had sex for everyone you informed of their impending arrival.

And you should never celebrate your child's birthday either! No one needs a yearly reminder that you had sex 9 months before that date one time.

Well that’s kind of my point. When you call a kid a Covid baby your specifically bringing up when they were conceived. Idk, if you like alluding to when your friends and family have sex, that’s fine I guess. You do you. But it may make them uncomfortable. I don’t have to like it.

I don't know how many people need to say it's about birthday, not conception date, for you to get it. Nobody cares about your sex life. My friend's baby was born the third week of March 2020 - basically the week of the first lockdowns - and has been called a Covid baby too many times to count. She was conceived before the novel coronavirus existed.