I feel a bit guilty about this but I keep wanting to call my 7-week-old daughter by our lady dog’s name. I catch myself just in time and say the correct name, but I know that wasn’t the first one that popped into my head. And if that wasn’t enough, I almost called my dog by our daughter’s name.
Is anyone else experiencing this
No, but I have called my son ‘good girl’ before. Super awkward but the dog loved it
Teo said:
No, but I have called my son ‘good girl’ before. Super awkward but the dog loved it
That’s a funny story, I really love it
Teo said:
No, but I have called my son ‘good girl’ before. Super awkward but the dog loved it
Yup. I was talking to my neighbor and said I had to take my son to the vet. I had to explain that I was a dog mom for a long time
Teo said:
No, but I have called my son ‘good girl’ before. Super awkward but the dog loved it
Oh we are terrible with this, we call the bassinet the crate, my husband says ‘what a good girl’ when the baby follows a command, and I found myself saying ‘good quiet’ when the baby stopped crying. We have been co-dog parents for 11 years, so it just comes out naturally
Happens all the time. My son is Georgie and my old dog became Jon
No, but I keep catching myself calling the pediatrician the ‘vet’
Val said:
No, but I keep catching myself calling the pediatrician the ‘vet’
That’s so relatable
Every day. Not just names but pronouns too. It’s a fun time
I just call them both ‘my baby’ to avoid all this
We’ve all been there
I stayed with my parents who have a dog over Christmas and you would not believe how many times I called my son by the dog’s name and vice versa. I was really shocked that I did that when it wasn’t even my dog
@Rio
Responding as someone who was a child
My mom called me by my siblings’ names all the time. She’d correct herself, but sometimes she’d call out a different sibling’s name instead. One time, I decided to beat her to it and tell her my name myself.
‘Mom, I’m Dingo!’
Imagine my surprise when I told her this story 20 years later and found out this was not the only time I called myself by the dog’s name
My kid thinks they are a pet now. Both on the floor, looking up at me, chasing toys, begging for food and both answering to the pet’s name. I’ve started to lean into it
I knew I was part of my now-husband’s family when his mom accidentally called me the dog’s name
I’ve called my kid both our cats’ names but never the other way around
I keep calling my daughter by my dog’s name
I do this constantly and I think it will get worse over time
Definitely, that’s actually how we got our kid’s nickname
I’ve caught myself calling my female cats good boy because that’s what I say to my son sometimes
Sometimes I call my oldest kid by little sister’s name. It’s like there’s a mom brain thing that happens I never experienced before having them