Names please for the lady-bits

[BlueCloud1973]

OK I have a 4 year old boy and have recently had a girl. My boy is asking questions about her lady-bits and I'm not sure what to refer to them as....
'Fanny' seems a bit crass, 'vaj' a bit cheap, etc etc you get my drift. Any suggestions on names for this body part gratefully recieved!

I grew up with hippy parents, vulva and testicles etc were used and it made me cringe so don't agree with you there FB. Even to me as a child it sounded too hard and clinical and ..... yuck!

I don't like "bits" or "foo foo" etc
but similarly I don't like vulva and penis

I say "tummy" not abdomen, and am looking for something similar for vulva - something sensible and universally recognised as that, but not hard and clinical
for penis we say willy but can't find a comparable word for vulva

fanny

The girls in our house have Foo Foos

We call 'lady-bits' a 'wilma' coz it went with willy. Great until they go to school and read 'Kipper' books!!! My daughter nearly died laughing when she read one!

i've never understood using nicknames for body parts. Would you call your arms, legs or bottom a different name? - what is wrong with saying vagina?

I have 3DC DD aged 10, DS1 aged 4 and DS2 11 weeks and I have always used vagina, penis, testicles etc

Lulu

err, emma, I don't think you'd find "bottom" in Grays Anatomy either LOL!

Yey another mnetter who uses lulu

My dd is nearly four and we say "bits".Told the dog to put his lipstick away and she overheard.God knows when that one will come back to haunt me!

when i was growing up my mum called it "tupence"

Hated it, when my daughter came along my husband names it "NooNoo".......... he had grown up with his sisters privates called that so naturaly went with it. Wasn't very funny when teletubbies started!! (noonoo was the hoover ) lol

Or when my niece called her dummy a noonoo either!!!

dinky winky for the boys.

how about Fanjo ???

We say foof or foofy :)

Wendy

My mum called ours Willhamena! My DD says mini or privates

What about Jemima?

My dd has a fluff fluff! Not sure How we came up with that one but she's happy. While on a camping holiday in the showers we did also hear a mum saying to her ds, 'ok, let's wash your woo woo' which really made me chuckle. Now I too have a ds and my daughter Insists her brothers got a woo woo but her daddy has a willy! I don't have a problem with using a more adult approach to delicate areas but I just think when they are still so little it seems a bit clinical during bathtimes etc.

my dd says twinkle and 2 older ds's says willy ds'3 cant talk yet
the older ds's know the proper name is penis but prefer willy as they ave speech probs and it sound like they sayin enos lol
we thinking of changing twinkle though as cute as it sounds when dd says twinkle tinkling it was a bit embaressing at playgroup when singing twinkle twinkle little star and she pointed saying tinkle twinkle

vulva

Fanjo or bits.... I like in-betweeny ! I have a 14 yr old DS and tbh it never came up in conversation often enough to warrant agonizing over the name, twee or otherwise... how often do you all find yourselves referring to them? ?

At the moment, I call it my special hole - to explain to the boys (both under 5) what's there when they enquired where my 'tinkle' was. Just think penis and vagina sound a bit too anatomical from really small kids. That said, they know that babies grown in a uterus.

I'm not remotely twee or scared of language (I don't think...) - but can you who use the proper words explain to me why I just couldn't say vagina to my DD. Tbh I had a terribly immature reaction and nearly giggled!

when I was little I called them 'flames'. I made up that name myself because that's what I thought they looked like.

Maybe you could say vulva/penis is the real name - but is there a name you would like to call it?

I always really liked the name 'flames'and told my partner about it when we first met. He still refers to my 'bits' as that now.

Well we haven't got into what's inside, but mine have for a long time now ( DS7, DD4 )noticed that DD doesn't have a willy. So we say DS has a willy and DD has a line.

I like it, its descriptive of what it looks like from the outside, and when the time comes to go into more detail then it may be appropriate to give it its proper name.

We say 'gina' (pron. ji-na).