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

[beegee]

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.

Sorry to hear that becky. Is sign language any use to you?

(FWIW ds thinks it is called a Valva my Essex accent strikes again)

OMG. What would sign language for vulva be?

I bet you know, don't you?

Tricky one isn't it? DD1 is 4.5 and her bum is her bottom and the other bits are her 'girlie bits and her creases'. I have furry girly bits and dh has a wiggy (only cos she can't say her ls very well!)I know that this is probably very wimpy really but think it's sufficent for the moment.

I used to know, Becky...(worked using BSL)...but pregnancy and motherhood seem to have wiped my brain clean of half of what I knew. I can find out if you like though

Wonder what dd's generation will be posting on MN about what to call their genitals?

I remember reading an article by a Mum in America who said all the Mums got angry, coz she did the star action in Twinkle Twinkle and that was the ASL sign for vagina

Well we call it a pee pee or sometimes front bottom...actually we hardly use that one now.

My friend was over the other day & she insists peepee is wrong. I asked her what she called 'hers' when she was young & she replied a......wingley as in wing-ley. I asked how can peepee be wrong when hers is a made up word ?!

tghe problem wiht talking to a kid abotu a vagina
so that a few months later fran ny youll be in a crowded shoppign areaa nd she will scream

"mumy my vagina is itchy"

this will be embarasing
itneedent be but it will

I am now imagining my dd signing and people wondering what she is trying to say, and ds piping up in his lovely clear voice "she means her vulva". I'm already a bit of a pariah for getting ds to call his penis a penis.

yes
idt relaly ownt help
id clal it awilly and have done

eh will do the correst names in year 3

LOL becky - I meant in general not just for talking about her vulva

Cod ds went through all that after I told him what it was called. He sat in the park once shouting "That woman has got a vulva - and that one - and that one" while I tried to pretend I was not with him

oh GOD vuvla far too graphic
what are oyu on

He calls it a penis. Loud and proud. Mind you, did regret it a bit when it needed some attention by the doctor, and every time we walked past the doctor's after that, ds piped up "That's the doctor's. I had a sore penis. The doctor touched my penis and now it's all better". Every day. For a LONG time. Poor doctor!

Embarrassing question here ( and off the point) but how do you pronounce penis? Is it pen-is or pea-nis?

pea niss

oh fgs
all of oyu

cod, if your boys were girls what word would you be using?

a willy.

a lulu.

'nuff said.

bottom

PMSL!!! at pea ness!!

'front bottom'.

WHERE the hell did that come from?

sorry to all who use that, but that's fucked up.

No it isn't.

Ursula
That is sooo confusing. It's NOT a bottom. It's in her middle. Her bottom is at her feet.

Her bottom is at her feet??? No wonder you are confused, expat

Of course you sit on your fanny, don't you?