to dislike being referred to as a "Mamma"

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Anyone who wants to sell something "Mum" related or mum groups on the internet (breastfeeding groups etc). All this "You go girl, super/Hot/boobing/insert adjective here Mamma (or Mumma)."

Just makes me a bit boak in my mouth. Anyone else? Or am I just a grumpy geriatric second time parent?

I call my parents mama and papa, and my two year old calls me mama and I love it.

I would cringe if an adult called me mama though!🤢

Doesn't bother me in the slightest, if children want to call their mum mama or mummy until they are an adult that wouldn't bother me either. I don't sweat the small stuff.

My 4 year old has started with this bullshit and I don't know why. I just raise my eyebrow sardonically and say, 'why yes daaaaarling Sebastian, don't look the poor in the eyes now, you never know what may happen.'

My 6 year old ds calls me mama and always has (his choice). I didn't realise it was strange/annoying

Ops not talking about children saying mama, but adults referring to other adults as mama.

I hate it, absolutely hate it. It makes my insides squiggle when people irl or online do it. The only people who get away with it are HCP when they are seeing to one of my children. I don't expect them to find my name out on the referral sheets and usually they are trying to use comforting language for my ds.

But anyone who hashtags proudmama, mamabear, supermama, blah blah blah 🤮

Ah I see what you mean. The "mama tribe" stuff? I get annoyed with the loooong social media posts that start "I see you Mama..." or "You got this, mama". Usually trying to sell me something.

There are different ways to pronounce this. Do you say mamAA, mAAma or mumma?

@Montanaskies

exactly this.

@Drizzzle in my mind, when they're selling something it's 'Maam-Maa'

I wouldn't mind it were mam-AA, I'd feel very upper class

YANBU.

There's a fitness group near me who have the word 'Mama' in the title and the ladies who go are referred to as "mamas", as in "You got this, mamas" and so on. I genuinely find myself looking further afield for other exercise groups because it just doesn't sit well with me.

My daughter calls me mumma. It's for her and her alone though,

My son calls me Mumzles, which I also quite like.

When you get a message from someone you either don't know or haven't spoken to in a decade and it starts with "Hey mama! 😍" and you just know you're about to recieve a sales pitch for some overpriced skincare, crap makeup or weight loss drink as they also desperately try to convince you to join their 'team'. That's all I think of when an adult refers to another adult as "mama/mumma/any variation thereof".

I have noticed ‘mama’ is really popular on a lot of the ‘mummy blogger’ blog and Facebook posts I see and amongst ‘instamums’. I don’t know why but it annoys me!

I hate this. Mumma bear also. Also bubba. Oh god I’m getting the rage now hahaha

I'm guessing you find my user name annoying then op

I don't really know why I chose it tbh, lots of others I liked were already taken. I've never once verbally referred to myself as 'mamma' and the whole 'full time mamma' job description thing on social media is definitely not my thing!

Ops not talking about children saying mama, but adults referring to other adults as mama.
Yes this! The toddler calls me Mama, that’s fine obviously and definitely preferable to when she went through a phrase of calling me by my first name. When someone at works says ‘way to go super mama’ to another colleague whose 17YO son got into his first choice university I find it so cringeworthy.