Anonymous
Post 02/26/2015 07:28     Subject: "Grandbaby"
I use grandbaby on an anonymous forum when I'm trying to hide details. Never know who is reading. IRL I'm more gender specific.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 15:17     Subject: Re:"Grandbaby"
Anonymous wrote:It is like baby mama.


No that's for trashy people who have kids before marriage.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 15:09     Subject: Re:"Grandbaby"
It is like baby mama.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 10:30     Subject: "Grandbaby"
Anonymous wrote:My friend refers to her daughter's pets as her "grand dogs".


Aww, so cute.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 10:14     Subject: "Grandbaby"
Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one whose teeth get set on edge by this term? "Granddaughter" "Grandson" or "Grandchild" are fine, even "Grandkid" but "Grandbaby" really, really annoys me for some reason. (Which I realize may be totally irrational, but there it is...)

If it doesn't annoy you, did you call your own child your "baby?" as in "Oh, I have to take my baby to the pediatrician tomorrow?" I wonder if that's why it sounds grating to me; because I never used "baby" only "son" and "daughter" or "kid"


It's common in my circle for dads and mums to refer to their babies as... "the baby". My partner and I perfer to use the baby's name if we're talking to someone who knows whom we're speaking about. As in: "I need to take Mary to the pediatrician's tomorrow". If the person we're talking to wouldn't know who Mary is, we say "the baby" or "my daughter/son" interchangeably.

I only hear the term "grandbaby" rarely. I'm indifferent to it.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 05:17     Subject: "Grandbaby"
OP, is this really the hill you want to die on?
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 00:46     Subject: Re:"Grandbaby"
My grandpappy called me his grandbaby. I loved it!
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2015 00:43     Subject: "Grandbaby"
Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna guess that the OP's MIL says this, and OP can't stand her MIL, so not matter what MIL says, OP would come here and complain about it.


I'm OP. You are wrong. My MIL doesn't say "grandbabies" but I hear it other places and find it really off-putting. I looks like I'm not the only one, either. And 20:35, I never called my baby "baby" but they had other cutesie nicknames, which I still use even though they are teens.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 20:39     Subject: "Grandbaby"
My friend refers to her daughter's pets as her "grand dogs".
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 20:35     Subject: "Grandbaby"
you never called your baby... by baby? You seem really cold..and off.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 19:39     Subject: Re:"Grandbaby"
It bothers me too. I had never heard it before moving here. I think it is a Southern thing.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 16:51     Subject: "Grandbaby"
I'm gonna guess that the OP's MIL says this, and OP can't stand her MIL, so not matter what MIL says, OP would come here and complain about it.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 13:40     Subject: Re:"Grandbaby"
Grandbaby=hiilbilly/sharecropper
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 13:39     Subject: Re:"Grandbaby"
The 'grands' is british or caribbean.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2015 12:41     Subject: "Grandbaby"
Anonymous wrote:You're not from around here, are you.

Welcome!


LOL -- that's what I thought. I was grandbaby until my grandmother passed on. Never really thought about the word.