Alternative names to "Mummy"

[AirJordans]

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".

My 6 year old calls me Mama and I have no idea why because I never called myself that, it's quite sweet though. My 11 year old used to call me Mummy and now its Mum.

myhands, feel free to tell me to MMOB but wouldn’t it have felt awkward calling her mummy even without an adoptive mother? Surely you’d just go for first name?

@ErrolTheDragon

Brummie here so we use the American spelling.

Surely it's Americans who use the brummie spelling?

You are absolutely right!

Why should it feel awkward?

@ErrolTheDragon, stop being so brilliantly precise about the sounds! It's making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up with stress, and the toddler's been asleep these three hours!

MAM or MOM.

But Mumsnet is probably far too posh to even consider either. OOf.

Anyway a Mummy is an Egyptian fossil.

I'm mama, because DH is Spanish. Before LO could speak, it was only DH who used a title to refer to me - so Mama I am.

Horrid (though mostly lovely and much loved) teen calls me Mumster : last of five and still found a unique way!
I've been Mummy, Mum, Mom, Mammy ( a brief Mrs Brown phase), Mama, Mamsy , muuuuum, and many variants, over the years.

Mammy and then Mam for most of my cousins in Wales.

sarah, I suppose because nicknames generally are indicative of a close and intimate relationship. Not Becky in place of Rebecca but mummy or sausage cheeks or whatever

Meeting someone for the first time when you are aged 40 and immediately having that level of intimacy surprised me. The poster is free to ignore of course as I said. It wasn’t a criticism just a question.

I'm mammy or mummy, if their friends are listening it's muuuuuuuuuuum.

I hate to tell you Sarah, but mine is 21

I was always Mummy or Mum until DS reached about 13, then it became Mother in an exasperated tone or Madre. Occasionally Mama if he's pretending to be posh. My own mother was Homily or Maman (I went through a pretentious phase and it stuck). She's sometimes Mutter to my sister (I taught my sister to say, my mum is a dickhead, in German. My mum does not speak German).

All 5 of mine call me muma.

• MAM or MOM.

But Mumsnet is probably far too posh to even consider either. OOf.*

You've not RTFT, have you?

In Ireland so I'm Mammy, and that's what we called our mother too, though it morphed to Mom when we were teens. Not a long American Mom though. DS called us Ma and Da when he first started to speak. I loved that but he dropped it.

Mama, Ma, Mummy tends to be more common in my circles.

@greentreesdream - ah, see, I don't think 'mummy' is a nickname, is it? It's not like the other examples you describe, which are personalised. It's just the casual word for mother. I wouldn't imagine anyone since about 1920 (except maybe Jacob Rees-Mogg) refers to their mother as 'mother,' so it is just a word.

We refer to my daughter's dad as her dad - it doesn't imply closeness (they've never met). It's just an easy way to refer to him, as 'sperm donor' doesn't mean much to DD.

@ErrolTheDragon - at this rate, by the time my one is 21 I will be approximately 95 in mother years, and perpetually wizened from eye-rolling at each desperate shout.

I call my mum "muzz".

I'm a Mammy, and have a Ma and Da.... my OH and his siblings, since they were kids, have called their parents by their first name

Mama, no idea why but I like itm. I tried to encourage Momma but its def Mama and now he's so grown up (5) it's Mam. I expect it'll drop to Mom because of school as Mom is local and yes, the Americans use the Midlands spelling 😂😂

I’m mama. I hate Mummy. But my daughter is only 6 months and doesn’t care yet 😂

Oh yeah I get that sarah, as in ‘your dad’ - I suppose to me it’s the equivalent of your DD meeting him for the first time aged 40 and calling him Daddy. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that at all but I was curious enough to ask!

Although my dad used to say ‘Margaret, I mean, your mum and I, went to ...’ yes dad, I’d have known who you meant without clarifying she was indeed my mum!

I call my own mother by her first name because when I said MumumumumumumMUM she would just tune it out and not respond, but always responded to her name. So my parents are (for example) Dad and Sarah, even though Sarah is my actual mother. My own DC call me Mammy even though I have tried to discourage it and never called myself that.

Mummy is a bit infantile if you ask me.

Mum, Mom, Mam is fine by me.

What do people call Fathers, as a matter of interest? Dad no doubt so that's easy of course where men are concerned.

Plus ca change.