To HATE the word 'Mama'?!

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Just a lighthearted whinge really.
Why is the word mama suddenly everywhere?! I'm 24 weeks and feel like every other day someone says something like 'Are you excited to be a mama?' Or I see t shirts etc with 'mama' on. One of the midwives even uses it!

Makes me cringe beyond belief.

You don't really get to choose. I always say/said Mummy but DD2 calls me Mama the older one says Mummy. She might grow out of Mama but she might not.

Jheez, some people are so judgy on a word a child uses 🙄

Oh God it's such a twee and hideously naff mummy bloggers and insta mummies term!

My SIL (who is desperate to become either or both) refers to herself as a 'Mama' and my DB (her DH) as 'Papa' on social media. I cringe deeply for her.

Lol Squat it’s weird how it’s beckme compulsory on there

Become

The word "Mama" is quite a universal word.

In terms of an infant;s speech development often the first sounds are made at the front on tha mouth using just the lips, so ma, mama, mamamam will be the first sounds that any baby makes, regardless of where it is born in the world.

The sound “ma” is nearly universal among the Indo-European languages. ... But even in non-Indo-European languages, very similar sounding words correspond to the word for “mother.” Navajo is amá, Quechua is mama, Ancient is Egyptian is mut, Korean is eomma and Swahili is mama.
www.mother.ly/parenting/mama-is-most-universal-word

Hate is a very strong word.

How will you feel if your roddler starts calling you Mama?

toddler

I’m sure people wouldn’t dislike so much it if it hadn’t been co opted so widely on SM
People wouldn’t give it a second thought plus it wouldn’t be everywhere just used by a few families

As an aside my just turned 1 year old already calls me mummy with emphasis on the EE

@speakout spot on

And in many languages the "mamas" are the breasts and to "mamar" is to drink milk from the mother (hence Mammals, mammalian, etc)

Easy enough sound for most languages

It’s still twee on SM

Yeah I couldn't give a shit if your child calls you 'Mama' naturally or if it's the default word for Mummy in your country/culture.

It's the whole social media 'Mamas' thing that makes me want to throw up.

I can;t imagine getting so wound up about something so trivial.

Hate?
Want to throw up?

Really?

Wait until you little one is all smily, cute and reaches their arms out to you for a cuddle and says ‘mumma’ you won’t hate it so much then

I just can’t quite get worked up about this.

Always been Mama.
Never been a vegan.
Don’t mind/notice if I get called ‘mum’ by people speaking to the kids.
Kids refer to me as ‘my mum’ to other people.
Made it easier to pick out my child when they were shouting for me at the soft play etc (not the reason for starting it!).
I was actually ‘mama’ to the dog before I had the kids (“go see your mama” etc - that’s probably how it started!
Oldest one is trying to get into the habit of calling me ‘mum’ but it hasn’t stuck yet. Doesn’t bother me either way!

Your kid will call you Mama long before it ever calls you Mummy 🙄

Yabu OP. And a judgy knob.

"Mama" is fine. Instagrammers and bloggers who call themselves "Mumma" make me cringe though!

My son used to call me mama because that’s how his European dad referred to he. Now at 15 it’s mum, mummy when he wants something or love when he’s being hard faced

Thewifipasswordis not always. My DD called me by first name for a long time, well her attempt as it was too difficult for her to pronounce. Then she moved onto Mummy for a couple of months. Now it’s Mum but occasionally mamma if she is playing at being a baby.

For some reason, whenever I read the word mama, I hear it spoken in my head by a doll, so in a very mechanical way... ma ma rather than mama.

I'm in my 40s, did there used to be a doll that spoke? Is that where thus has come from?

Anyway, for that reason, I also dislike it.

In wales mam/mammy is very common. I've always referred to myself as mammy.

I love mama! Unfortunately it does not sound good with my accent so I don’t use it 😂

DD (7) calls me mumma or mama.

It makes me melt a little inside

I am not crunchy or vegan.

My 5 year old has started doing it - calling me mama. I think she has picked it up because of an eastern european connection.
But inwardly I cringe because of the vegan/crunchy/gentle parenting association!!!
(The funny thing is I am almost vegetarian, breastfed quite long, used slings, quite a hippy/nature obsessed but that doesn't mean I feel comfortable with being part of that 'tribe' - and 'tribe' is another word that makes me cringe!!!)

Doesn’t bother me.

But then my 12 year old still calls me “mummy” in public! Which is a cardinal MN sin apparently