Is it ok to use 'fanny' to describe girls bits to my toddler?

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My DD is 2 and a half months and I was chatting to a friend about what words to use to describe boys and girls bits??

A friend uses 'nunu' for girls. For some bizaare reason I have started to say 'bits and pieces'!! thats sooo wrong, any suggestions or do you just say fanny??

ra-fay, I think. The label on the diagram has an accent on the e!

its called a 'peach' in my house (?) dont know why- im the only one with one- have a house full of males.
Ds1 came home from nursery with this name for it ( think one of the other little girls called it this) and it sort of stuck.

its quite humourous now he is a little older, if you ask him if he wants a peach yoghurt for example - he goes "eugh! peach yoghurt - no way!"

hc are you referring to the male or female participants, or both?

and can I say hovely that i am storing away the term perineal raphe for later use. {grin] Sounds like a rather swish Italian resort, don't you think?

Ooh. I can't see many men talking about their ray-fay.

both. shocking, isn't it?

Personally I would be happy calling it a vagina, but I know it's not technically correct.

Somehow can't get my head around vulva...

Good point, www. We do call it a vagina at the doctors. My kids know they are the only freaks to talk about a pum pum.

'Vulva' - it's just to formal. I like the informality of willy.

HSC nothing surprises me any more. I have lost count of the kids who still think, after many yaers of complulsory education, that the sun goes round the earth.

Two years ago an A level student....yes, A level, told me that the sun was 'alive'...and she was quite serious.

Oh marvellous, a perineal raphe

Thanks so much, ds will be thrilled

(I think is is pronounced Ray - fee isn't it?)

i like the 'perineal ralph fiennes' idea pointydog.
It is rather a dashing term, isn't it, makes me think of fencing and rapiers and the 3 musketeers for some reason.

when i was little we used bum, willy and fanny/fanjo/foof/foofie. if i have a little girl ever i think it will be foof or foofie and maybe the other two when she is older as i'm sure she would come across them.

'oh yes, darling, we have booked two weeks in a villa on the Perinieal Raphe, such a charning place, neer a deep ravine, two stunning hills and a water feature. You really should go some time'

rafé like café, surely

It says Ra-fee on link

Yes, hovely. I'm disappointed it's pronounced rayfee. 'mind your rayfee on the barbed wire' doesn't have the same ring.

sorry RAY-fee

No, check out hovely's link:

"In general, a raphe (pronounced "RAY-fee") is a seam"

martianbishop

Oh well, so much for my logic!

But, but, but, surely we're looking or a term that can be used as an all encompassing term to cover front bottom/fanjo/noo noo/punani/bits/downstairs aren't we? So drawing a distinction between vulva and vagina isn't terribly helpful when talking to a 3yo girl is it?

'Put away your rayfee. We're in a cafe.'

BTW - this thread is so busy maybe you could all pop by BabiesEverywhere who has just posted for the first time \linkwww.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1370&threadid=204581&stamp=060824212115\here} since her difficult delivery.

So what would you go for, www?

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