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Sensitive - what do you call your ds' girlie bits?

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beegee · 19/09/2006 22:18

This is a tough one - I've a 3 yo ds and i've confidently called his private 'bits' his willie..he's happy with this and always uses the name when needed. No probs there. With girls its harder...i've got a 6 mo ds and, although it's early days, i feel i'm already searching for an equivalent for my daughters girlie 'bits' but struggling i'm afraid!

I'm not a prude. I don't find it difficult to talk about these issues. I just want to avoid the name my mum called mine - wee wee - eeeck! Now I call mine 'my vagina' but this doesn't seem right for a little girl and it always makes me feel a bit...errr...cringey IYKWIM.

When my ds and dd share a bath or when i'm changing my dss nappy, my ds is satisfied that she just 'hasn't got a willie'. But it's started to make me think - what does one name it?!!

I apologise if this offends anyone...not intended. I would love others opinions/experiences.

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Gillian76 · 19/09/2006 22:20

BIG discussion on this a short while back!

lemonaid · 19/09/2006 22:21

I would say 'vulva' if I had a DD. 'Vagina' isn't even anatomically the correct term as it refers to the internal bit that you can't see not the external bit that you can.

Mandymoo · 19/09/2006 22:25

lady bits
tuppence
pink bits

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beegee · 19/09/2006 22:30

Thanks for your replies. I'll be checking out the previous discussion and i'll get back on here with what i've learnt.!!

Yep lemon - i know. But IMHO i think vulva can sound so like vulga which really puts me off. But, maybe i should re-think...mmmm

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suedenley · 19/09/2006 22:34

MY kids all say mini and winky

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beegee · 19/09/2006 22:48

I like 'mini' in principal but i just feel that there is another meaning for 'mini'..ie - little. Willie is original (!) and doesn't seem to have any other useage

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collision · 19/09/2006 22:50

Wouldnt front bottom cover it? (IYSWIM!!)

Friends call it a fallulah!!

Mumnset call it a Fanjo!!

I have boys so it doesnt really need a name but I would call it a front bottom....which it is.

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beegee · 19/09/2006 22:54

I just put 'fallulah' to my dp and he says 'that's good'!! So bit of a result there...i think it might sound a bit fancy.

'front bottom'...noooo. Can't be doing that!

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hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 22:55

I call mine an inkle-winkle-twinkle-finkle-tilly-milly-woo-woo.

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beegee · 19/09/2006 22:58

Hunker - and how would you abbreviate that?

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collision · 19/09/2006 23:08

you do have to think of when they start school and what others will call it. Stupidly, we called ds1's willy a peeko and that has stuck!

We now call it a willy because he is at school and that is what others will say.

If you start calling things inkywinkynoonywoonyflojo then that is going to be strange at school.

Front bottom would be easier all round rather than a fallulah or a posy or a fanjo.

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beegee · 19/09/2006 23:12

Good point about school. What about fanny then? That's what older girls would call it. Just not sure how comfortably that sits with me...pathetic, i know.

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curlew · 19/09/2006 23:12

I obsessed about this when my dd was a baby - consulted widely - talked about it to everyone who would listen - and failed utterly to come up with a solution. dd is now 10 and a couple of nighs ago said "My bottom's itchy" I said "Front or back?" She said "Front". Perfectly clear - no problem practically. But my 70's feminist Greenham Commod soul wishes there was a willie equivalent - my ds has had a willie from as soon as he could talk but all the girls word are unbrearably twee or so obscure a doctor would spend twenty minutes treating you for verrucas before he realized you had thrush!

hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:12

Fanjo, it has to be. Or vulva, for Sunday best and talking about it in church.

collision · 19/09/2006 23:13

Could never say fanny IMO.

Too crude.

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beegee · 19/09/2006 23:15

lol curlew. Yep, i know what you mean about feminist soul. I've got one of those too...it's so difficult.

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beegee · 19/09/2006 23:16

lol at 'sunday best'!

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collision · 19/09/2006 23:17

hunker.....you have boys! How or why do you even talk about it in your house!!??

lisalisa · 19/09/2006 23:18

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beegee · 19/09/2006 23:19

Yep, coolision. Fanny DOES seem too crude. Not sure why...

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tortoisesdonotwearshoes · 19/09/2006 23:20

Foo foo here but Im not keen on it!
collision Even boys will want to know what mummy's got!!

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beegee · 19/09/2006 23:20

Yes I've heard of noony..one of my friends uses that.

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collision · 19/09/2006 23:22

Nah! Mummy just hasnt got a willy!!

Noony is awful. Sorry.

How will you get over that at school?

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beegee · 19/09/2006 23:23

My SIL uses 'toots' on my neice. My ds mixes alot with her and the family. Maybe we should all call it the same thing - along with the 'in croud' IYSWIM! Not sure about 'toots' though. Sounds a bit twee.

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hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:24

Because I've been trying out different names for willies to see if DH will laugh/wince/frown. So far he's discarded chesney, but hampton is finding favour (rhyming slang - hampton wick) - ironically I had a teacher called Mr Hampton who was a complete chesney...

(And I have one myself, Collision...the boys will no doubt ask where my whanger is one day...!)