[BoonersmomRN]

Right now we have a Chocolate. The parents are saying it's pronounced "Shah-Colette". It's written Chocolate. All I can think of is the movie Top Secret where one of the people at the end that Val Kilmer meets is " El Chocolate Mousse"...pronounced " El Shah-Colette Mousse".

[WeeBabyRN]

Today I heard over the hospital wide overhead system, "could the family of MyTreasure Smith please return to your child's last treatment area." Ack....

[mauigal]

I try to talk with the parent if is is really rediculous . I try to point out that you need to think about how it is going to sound if you child becomes president. Then, if that does not work I just say "you know she will never be able to go to the store and find preprinted pen, pencils or anything else with her name on. Think how sad she will feel" This usually works because the parent ,most of the time has a rediculous name also and knew what it was like never finding a pencil with their name on. Amazing what the mention of a pencil will do. They don't care about the fact that getting a job with a rediculous name is even harder!!!

[preemieRNkate]

Not really a funny name story, but a funny story about names. I have been taking care of a set of twins for awhile now. For the first 4 days, they had no names. I guess the parents weren't prepared for a preterm delivery and hadn't yet picked names or whatever. So on the 4th night I was speaking to mom on the phone, and she told me that the babies now had names. The twin I was taking care of (still 1:1's at that point) was Isabella (along with about half the girls on the unit, very popular name!). So the parents came in later that night, and I referred to the girls by name rather than baby A and baby B. I say, "Isabella blah, blah, blah" when updating them on what was going on. Dad goes, "Isa-who?" I guess mom didn't tell him she named the babies!

[Sweeper933]

Baby girl... Heaven-lee

[CookieCritter]

Originally Posted by Sweeper933

Baby girl... Heaven-lee

Ummm.......It isn't my cousin's kid by chance is it? Seriously my cousin named her daughter Heaven Leigh, but this is Heave is 5 now. Oh well we laughed too and we're related.

[Sweeper933]

Originally Posted by avalonlake

Ummm.......It isn't my cousin's kid by chance is it? Seriously my cousin named her daughter Heaven Leigh, but this is Heave is 5 now. Oh well we laughed too and we're related.

lol....
this baby was just born a few weeks ago on my unit

[CookieCritter]

Originally Posted by Sweeper933

lol....
this baby was just born a few weeks ago on my unit

Oh this is funny wait until I tell my cousin. She will like the idea that there is Heaven Lee out there 5 years younger then her Heaven Leigh. I forgot to mention she is nursing school as well as I am in another state.

She was heavenly until she grew some teeth and learned to walk and talk.

I feel for the parents of the latest Heaven "ly" (aka lee) if their bit of heaven turns out like ours who is a

[NICU_babyRN]

The weirdest name i've seen was ABCDE pronounced Ab-see-dee.
Seriously? c'on!!!
The dad wanted the kid to have a unique an easy to spell name.

[CookieCritter]

Originally Posted by Addy_NICU

The weirdest name i've seen was ABCDE pronounced Ab-see-dee.
Seriously? c'on!!!
The dad wanted the kid to have a unique an easy to spell name.

I hope you're yanking our chains with that one. Poor little kid if you're serious.