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Most people come up with a name for their baby in-utero, because using “it” or “the baby” all the time just isn’t as fun. There’s the typical, “bean”, “peanut”, ect. I wanted something original and cute (is it weird that I gave so much thought to this..?). In any case, in the first week after we found out I was pregnant, our embryo was the size of a poppy seed, so J was playing on that and he said “Poppet”. Like from Pirates of the Caribbean when the pirate calls Kiera Knightly’s character poppet as a creepy sort of term of endearment.
It sounded kind of cute, so I googled it and it came up as “a middle English word meaning small child or doll” as well as a term of endearment. I figured that fit, and so Poppet it has been. It wasn’t until later that I read the entire definition that also states that it is primarily used for a young woman or girl. Oops, sorry to Poppet if it is a boy. But we are really really hoping for a girl, so perhaps it is a foretelling…
Infertile Girl in a Fertile World 
We used Blobholm (our last name is Granholm) for awhile, and Grass-Fed (what my cousins toddler named it) for awhile but it was usually The Baby. I also used the male set of pronouns for awhile but it turned out to be a girl. 🙂
We call ours Cannoli. At our first ultrasound I was only 7 weeks so it didn’t even look like a gummy bear yet. When we looked at the printout later, I told my husband, “it doesn’t even look like anything,” and he said, “well, it kind of looks like…a cannoli.”
Poppet also harkens all the kicks and tumbles inside the womb. Popping… poppet.
Funny, I can’t hear that word without thinking of the scandal in The Crucible, but to hear you talk about it, I love this as a nickname!
Hm well that’s actually rather a creepy nickname in that regard isn’t it? Ha ha. Oh well, it has its own meaning and purpose for my use.
Cute! I hope it’s a girl for you guys too!
We did the same thing with an in-utero name. Hubby didn’t want to use a name that we would use once he was born…so we ended up with Paxlet (a small axe = axlet, and if it was pink…so Paxlet, it had a whole story to go with it. lol). This time around, hubby wasn’t so keen on finding a name, but I wanted one, so I came up with Tadbit (tad = a small something, bit = again a small something).
Hoping your pregnancy is healthy and uneventful!
Love Poppet! What a cute in-utero name.