Alternative names to "Mummy"

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Just interested really as I'm currently expecting my first. I guess an awful lot of UK mothers are known to their DC as "mummy" usually switching to "mum" as they get older. I'm interested in any UK mothers out there for whom this is not the case - so who either chose or ended up with an alternative name? Eg I know a mum whose DC call her "mama".

I’ve been Mama, Mimi, Mummy, Mum and my first name to mine before they were 5. Not sure why Mimi-he just said it one day and it stuck for a while.

2 mum family here. One of us is Mama and the other Mummy.

I know a few "Mumma"s as well, and a "Ma".

In parts of the midlands Mom/Mommy is normal.

I call mine Mymy - no idea why?!

Mom-mom. DD never said mama I was mom-mom for quite a while now she calls me mommy unless she wants something then she reverts back to mom-mom. Brummie here so we use the American spelling.

I’m Mummy or Mumma. Not sure why DD(6) has gone to Mumma but there we go.

My 2yo DD calls me 'Mama". I've encouraged it as it's easier for her to say and nicer for me to sing random 'mama love you,' songs than 'mummy loves you' lol

My daughter is 17 months and she calls me babs sometimes mummy or mama but mainly Babs lol..

Mama or momma normally. I encourage this as the occasional’mmmmmuuuuuuuuummmmmmmyyyyy’ yelled from upstairs drives me potty!

I think they choose, on the whole!

We called each other 'mama' from the start (I can't remember why) and when DD started to talk she'd say 'mama'. Then DD went to nursery and changed to calling us both 'mummy'.

Now she calls us 'my Sarah' and 'my [DP'sname]' when she is being affectionate (and drops down to plain old first names when she isn't!). We're still occasionally 'mama' though.

My hunch is that she'll just use our first names more as she gets older.

We are a 'Ma' family. It's a throwback to a couple of generations ago when everyone lived in Dublin. So a mum and dad are Ma and Da. I love it. We also like doing a Nick Cotton Eastenders accent when we phone her. "Ello Ma."

Both my DD'S called me mumma , as they've got older its become mummy / mum. It does revert to mumma when they are poorly or emotional etc but they would write a card To Mumma. Unusual here as Mam/ Ma/Mammy is the norm and also what i called my mother.

I'm 'mam' not mum. I got mamma and mammy when he was little but it's just mam now. My niece calls her mam 'mama'.

My kids call me Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum

Your name. Far less annoying imo when heard a hundred times a day and especially in a repetitive whinge!

I'm mummy to DS and have gone with Mama for DD.
I call my own mother Ma or mother.

I’m mostly mama, sometimes mummy. I was mummy consistently at one point but when DD2 was born DD1 went into “I’m a baby too” mode and reverted to Mama. I’m also occasionally “MUUUUUUUUUUM!” when being hailed from another room.

Im mimi to my youngest but he can say mummy. It’s cute and I’m enjoying it whilst it lasts.

Mum,mummy or mumma. Or the occasional urgh from the teen 🙄

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Brummie here so we use the American spelling.

Surely it's Americans who use the brummie spelling?

My birth mother (who I met when I was 40) and I struggled to come up with a name. She couldn't be mum or mummy as I called my adoptive mum that so we settled on Ummy. She loves it, I love it and my children do too.

I’m also occasionally “MUUUUUUUUUUM!” when being hailed from another room.

I find it's more like "Mu -uh - um", the first syllable at a higher pitch than the middle and then back up again.

If you really don’t want Mummy I’d go with your name. I sympathise as I’m not really a fan of any of the names for mothers! Mother is so formal, mummy is somewhat shrieky and Ma makes me cringe!

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