to feel slightly queasy when a woman describes herself as a mummy?

[MardyBra]

I'm a mother, or a mum.

The kids called me mummy when they were little, but I find it too cutesy when a grown woman describes herself as a "mummy".

Especially on a blog.

[abbyfromoz]

Hester- now that she is 2 she does say yes

[Lonecatwithkitten]

I am a Mummy Lady. When DD was a bit smaller someone referred to me as a Woman my DD looked at them in disgust and said 'My mummy is a lady'.

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

Yes, but do any of you absent-mindedly rock the trolley when you're standing looking at supermarket shelves...

[abbyfromoz]

Yes- also sway from side to side when not walking.

[wigglesrock]

I keep up a one-sided conversation in the car even when I'm on my own "oh look there's a moo" I haven't even got the good grace to be scundered for using the word moo for cow!

[sleeton]

Mine call me 'mummy' (youngest 18), although higgle 's post rather made me want to disassociate with the term.

I did think that saying "the word 'mum' makes me think of a slobbish woman with acrylic jumper and footglove boots, greying hair and nasty specs" was quite rude .... add to that I am sitting here with my nasty specs (complete with some sticking plaster holding one leg on) pushed up over my greying hair, my holey pullover (covering the holes in my other holey pullover underneath), and some rather awful gardening shoes (I don't know what footglove boots are, but I am sure my gardening shoes would rival anything for 'slobbishness') ..... well, you can see why I might think the post rather rude!

Oh dear, maybe I should get some new reading glasses!!

Anyway, back to 'mummy'. I refer to myself as 'mother' or 'your old ma' or 'sleeton', depending on the context, and once I was past the age of 21 I tended to call my own mother 'Ma' (although I did sometimes slip back).

[TomDudgeon]

It's mater surely?

I started calling my mum mummy again when I was about 15. I grew taller than her so used to pat her on the head and call her little mummy. She must have hated me for it

What age do they normally move on from mummy to mum? Ds1 has just turns 10 and I haven't noticed what he calls me. I tend to just answer

[Madeleine10]

It's the whole defining yourself via your relationship to someone else, that gets my goat.

I never called myself "daughter" or "sister" when I was single, or "I'm a Wifey", because I'm married, so why on earth should I refer to myself as a "Mum/Mummy" when I've had a child or two?

And I would get a gun and shoot anyone who referred to themselves as a pet's "Mummy"

Mine changed from Mum to Mummy at about 12/13 Tom, as [puberty kicked in - it's not cool to say Mummy in public , esp. oi teen friends are around.

[Madeleine10]

grr - IF teen friends are around

[pumpkinsweetie]

I refer to my mother and myself as Ma, just like Nick Cotton out of Eastenders call his mother Dot.
Even my 2 &4 year old call me it and my 2 eldest call me mum/mmy, but i don't refer to myself as mummy.

Mummy sounds rather wet lettuce like iykwim

[LibertineLover]

And the hideous yummy mummy bags cost a bloody fortune.....

[catgirl1976]

Hmm

I wouldn't refer to myself as a mummy except to DS who is 1. It's not a word I would use to another adult.

I don't mind when other people do it, but it is a little twee I suppose.

[crashdoll]

Saying to your baby "come to mummy" IMO is fine.
Saying to another parent in the playground "hi, I'm Emma's mummy" is a bit vomit inducing.

[currentbuns]

Oh, a friend of mine does this. She also refers to us (her friends- other mothers) as 'Mummy's'. As in, "We mummy's must get together next week." It really ought to make me cringe, but doesn't. Probably because she's just so sweet and kind to others and means well. Personally, I'd never refer to myself as Mummy.

[Arabesque]

I really can't stand it when people refer to themselves as a 'mum' unless its strictly relevant to the conversation in hand. As for 'mummy friends', 'mum chums' 'the mums' etc yeeeuch!!

[usualsuspect]

'Mummy friends' gives me the rage.

[higgle]

I'm standing by the wall waiting for the firing squad - in addition to DS 1 & DS2 calling me "Mummy" I've just realised that I do refer to myself as
"Butch's Mummy" Butch is a 9 year old Staffie.

[sjupes]

I'm mum mum to my toddler (17 months) mummy to dd (8) which i dislike after years of mama/mumma.. also minisjupes mum to the school - drs it's an appointment for my son/daughter.

I've never reffered to myself as a mummy and would boak at someone irl saying they were a yummy mummy.

I've got kids, i'm a mother, i'm 99% of the time just sjupes.

[sjupes]

Ah see i'm the hamsters mummy

But tbf he is a hamster version of ds and is just delightful and fat and hairy and squishy

[MrsKoala]

DS is 7mo and DH and i refer to ourselves to him as 'boob lady' and 'man'. i'm sure i will call myself mummy when he speaks to me. my mum loves cards with 'mummy' on them but i don't say it out loud to her.

i dislike emails from my nct group to 'all mummies' or worse 'yummy mummies'

[Ogooglebar]

YANBU, unless they are Egyptian, dead, and wrapped in bandages. Even then, YWNBU to feel queasy.

[Madeleine10]

That's sjupes and notfluffy (NOT FLUFFY???) up against the wall to be dispatched , then.

[CheapBread]

Yanbu, no grown woman should refer to herself as 'mummy' unless she's speaking to her own child aged about 6 and under. Oddly I think it's ok written in cards, just not said aloud!

i can't stand the word 'mum' anyway, round here we say Mammy/mam/mother (cultural/regional thing) which means having to alter the 'u' on greeting cards.