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what do you call girls' bits? (know this has been done before)

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yellowbean · 12/06/2007 21:29

realise thi must have been covered before but my search isnt working... what do your daughters call it? my dd is 3 and calls it her bottom... not sure why! but i don't think this is good term for it...what do you use?

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Sixofone · 13/06/2007 14:54

I know the logic behind using the proper words for things, and I do agree, but....vulva, urghhhh.....

My friend's 3 year old calls her front bottom (yes we're a front bottom house too sorry! ) her volvo! Gets a few giggles in the swimming pool changing room.

I just wish whoever thought up the words for private parts had thought of some nicer ones!

maxbear · 14/06/2007 12:18

bits

katherinez · 14/06/2007 12:37

foo

Spider · 14/06/2007 12:42

Fanny. Vagina. Vulva.

I abhor these namby pamby euphemisims which I believe betray a certain shame for the female anatomy. It's unbelievable too that in this day and age the worst possible swear word means vagina.

Aloha · 14/06/2007 12:43

I think vagina and vulva are intrinisically rather lovely words with a pretty sound. We only think they are ugly words IMO because we are brought up/conditioned by society and history to have shame about female genitalia.

hercules1 · 14/06/2007 16:48

Agree with aloha. Dd knows the right words to use the same way she knows her ankle is her ankle. If we all used the right words then there would be nothing shameful in them.

mumto2girls · 14/06/2007 19:24

Sorry but we call ours tuppence in this house, don't know why just what I called it when I was later. A friend of mine calls theirs faloola!!

mumto2girls · 14/06/2007 19:24

Sorry I meant I called it that when I was little

Bodkin · 14/06/2007 19:28

Sorry Aloha, I have to disagree with your point - while i have no problem with vagina, to me vulva sounds too much like a cross between vulgar and Volvo - not a nice image

Aloha · 14/06/2007 19:37

I think vulva sounds like velvet.

lou031205 · 15/06/2007 19:55

I always seem to call my dd's (18months)genital area her 'lady parts'. Think it is discreet, easy to understand and unambiguous. After all it is the main part of her (physically) that makes her a lady.

Don't have issues with other names, but somehow don't particularly want to have conversations about my vagina.

Also, I think it is much less graphic. I wouldn't say 'I have itchy labia'. But I would say 'my lady parts are itchy' for example.

auburnmum · 15/06/2007 20:23

Front bottom in this house. However, also thinking fanny is OK(what I call it after 'lights out'). Having read the threads will definitely tell DD the correct term too (vulva) - starting from tomorrow's bath. Thank you!

oliveoil · 15/06/2007 20:26

front bottom in this house

but they know the proper word (dd2 finds it hilarious and runs around saying gina gina gina)

dd1 (4) has just started asking questions about babies etc and I find it quite sweet tbh

Troutpout · 15/06/2007 20:30

mini

j20baby · 15/06/2007 20:30

front bum, don't know why, just do

NuttyMuffins · 15/06/2007 20:33

I used to call mine a dougle, god knows why.

Dd1 and 2 call theirs a fairy, well actually dd2 renamed hers a fairy toogle, again god knows why.

My friends dd calls hers a foo foo.

mrsharrypotter · 15/06/2007 21:00

Ds pointed out one day how "mummy has 2 bottoms", so it's a front bottom in out house aswell. When dd is a bit older I'll explain all the proper names, but I feel at 8mnths, that may be going a bit far!

tryingtomakeadifference · 15/06/2007 21:08

Nunny or a blossom

Judy1234 · 15/06/2007 22:06

In my family as a child and my own family we always use the proper words, probably because there are a lot of doctors in the family so it's vagina and vulva.

Bouquetsofdynomite · 16/06/2007 09:17

If we're talking about accuracy, the vagina is the internal tunnel bit, and the vulva is the visible labia & gubbins right? So why on earth would a small child need to use the word vagina? She's not going to find it for a long time, she just thinks she has one hole where wee comes out, again not a vagina.

Judy1234 · 16/06/2007 13:18

I think she ought to know she has three holes, surely. I can't remember how old my girls were when they knew about the vagina - they're 22 and 20 now, but they would have presumably see me put tampax up when they were about 5 or 6 and it's likely there was some kind of conversation about it being in my vagina. The 8 year olds have asked about babies and they know a penis goes in a vagina. Families differ on words and what they tell children when. I don't think anyone is right or wrong over it.

pointydog · 16/06/2007 13:29

pum-pum

FluffyMummy123 · 25/09/2008 11:18

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ActingNormal · 25/09/2008 12:03

I hate the term Front Bottom, it makes me think there might be poo in it and it might be unclean!

Fanny sounds somehow dirty but I don't know why

Vulva sounds like you are trying to be too proper

Vagina is just the 'canal' and doesn't describe the bits around it

Words like Foo Foo and Fairy etc are nonsense! A doctor wouldn't know what you were on about if you said "I have an itchy Foo Foo"

So I call it LadyBits. I think anyone can work out what this means and it doesn't sound dirty, clinical or degrading (because of the Lady part).

mumnosbest · 25/09/2008 12:30

we use 'tuppence', goes back to my nan, don't know why