baby doesnt call me mum

[kezzax]

Hey, just looking for a bit of advice or some similar stories. My DD doesnt call me mum or mummy anymore just Kewwie (my names kerrie). I correct her most times but she still won't say mum- she knows im her mum though. I am a single mum so she doesnt really here me called mum all the time so im thinking thats part of the prob... this isnt a major problem I know but just interested to know how to solve it. shes 21 months btw- thanks for reading

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my dds often call me by my name. i think they just find it interesting that we have a name too!

My dd calls me daw (dawn) she's 18mths. My neice did exactly the same to her mum and slowly reverted to mummy.

Just refer to yourself as mummy and she will --- eventually call you mummy, but will know that you have another name.

ds was a bit like that until he was 2, dp was away working all the time but when home he would say to him lets get mum,lets go see mum etc in the end i never corrected ds i just would say things like mummy and kieran read a book, mummy and kieran play together,mummy and kieran are going shopping etc

nothing to solve - don't worry! As you say, she knows you are her mum and she will I'm sure veer between your name and mum at different times. I think personally that it's lovely for kids to know you have an identity other than being mum! And how ADORABLE she must sound with her "Kewwie"

Apparently my bro and I called my dad by his name for AGES, my mum never corrected us and we called him dad off our own bat in the end (we were still very young when we started on 'dad', pior to school age anyway).

With kids it's all change all the time anyway, I'm never mum to my ds now, I'm always someone in his latest role-play, at the moment I am Wendy (from Peter Pan!)

i know i should just roll with it but sometimes i just want to hear her say mummy!! il wait it out- thanks i feel a bit better

when she calls yu Kewwie (soo cute) just repeat "mummy" and then let her finish.

she knows your mummy and she will soon realise that thats your name. it will be c9onfusing for her as she never hears you called mummy only Kerrie.

it is cute, but in a shop when shes calling me kewwie i feel a bit like her (very) big sister- crazy int it- think iv become all nuerotic ha ha

dd 4 still call me by my name a lot of the time.

should say dd aged 4 still calls me by my christian name!

I had this problem when i was a single mum with ds1 (now 9), I used to encourage anyone who visited us to call me mum, it sounded strange sometimes but ds1 soon reverted to caliing me it too. I know how much you wish your dd would call you mum, it makes you feel special/important to her even though you obviously are anyway. DS1 also used to call my Dad, dad as that was what he always heard me say, now that was embarassing when we were out. I was only 19 at the time and my dad was 56!! Luckily by the time ds1 reached 3 i was always 'mum' and my dad had been renamed pops (grandad was too difficult for him to say)

My ds2 (almost 3)doesnt always call dh Dad, sometimes he uses dh's christian name. I think he gets confused because ds1 doesnt call dh Dad much, unless he is after something but i know there will be a day when ds2 will call dh dad all the time.