The first doctor my baby met outside the hospital was our cattle vet. He was the first non-blood relative to hold him too.
I do this and my mother-in-law does too! I mix up pediatrician and veterinarian all the time. I’ve been a cat mom for over 15 years and only a mom to a human for 8 weeks. I even make sounds used to call my cat when trying to get my baby’s attention, and then I’m like why am I like this.
For a while, we just called her a ‘flesh baby’.
I always accidentally call the crib ‘the crate’! We laugh about it at home, but I’m worried I’ll tell someone that the baby sleeps in a crate! lol 
We avoid that by saying ‘everyone goes to the doctor’. I would never hear the end of it with my spicy self, not to mention my husband.
We started doing that when we first tried for a kid. I guess I might be the odd one out here!
I haven’t done that, but it took me months to stop trying to get my baby to respond with whistles and kissy sounds like I do with my dogs and cats.
In the first few weeks after bringing home baby, I would find myself waking up at night trying to pat the head of our pit-mix as if to burp him. He would cuddle up to me and place his head on my stomach (I guess because he did that as a cuddle before baby came) and for whatever reason, I would cradle his head and pat it like you do a baby; I think he was just as confused as I was when I eventually fully woke up each time lol.
I told multiple people my baby was standing on her hind legs until someone pointed out how strange that was.
When my baby started crawling, I often stopped him from going where he shouldn’t by swiping at him with my leg/foot.
Yes, but with a million terriers and horses, it’s an easy mistake. Someone’s always going to the vet. It’s totally second nature to say vet appointment.
We need a baby enclosure, and I guess you’d call it a playpen, but when I describe it, I can only say a baby xpen. Not a pack and play, but a round plastic exercise pen… just for babies.
Yeah, it was so embarrassing, so now we just take him to the baby mechanic lmao
I told my husband I’m pretending I’m bringing home a new cat in 9 weeks to help ease the nerves of becoming a human mom. I know they’re two totally different things, but still
We accidentally call her teethers chew toys haha
My baby is seven months old, and I STILL want to say ‘vet’ instead of ‘pediatrician’
I’ve definitely done this way more times than I can count. We had pets for 8 years before having a baby. It’s a hard habit to break!
Three months in, and I’m doing it all the time. I’ve called my baby ‘the puppy’ countless times too.
Oh yeah, all the time. I think it’s because before I had my baby, I’d only taken myself or my pets to appointments, so I’d never talked about taking a person to the vet!
Omg, all the time lol
Definitely. And they both have chew toys… for real.
I started calling him a ‘good boy’ as soon as he was born, and it hasn’t stopped.