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What do you call a girls 'bits'

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twofishes · 23/12/2006 18:59

okay this might be a bit of a wierd thread but what do you call a DD 'bits'?
All suggestions welcome..me & DP can't agree!!

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averymerrymonkeymooXmastoyou · 23/12/2006 19:03

Ah this old chestnut

Not decided yet, DD is 10mths old and we are trying to decide what to call 'it'. Might stick with good old fashioned vagina.

Steppy1 · 23/12/2006 19:14

foo foo !

lulumama · 23/12/2006 19:15

vagina...or vergana, if you are DS!

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twofishes · 23/12/2006 19:23

yep you see this is where me & DP are divided he says 'vagina' and I'm more of a 'Tuppence' kinda girl ( although 'FooFoo' appeals too!)...this 'straight to the point' approach from my DP the man who christened my DS's bits 'Winkie', try explaining the whole 'Wee Willie Winkie runs thru' the town...' rhyme!!

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hunkermunker · 23/12/2006 19:26

It's not a vagina though, strictly speaking. It's a vulva.

Don't go for something vom-inducingly twee though (unless you call it a twee, perhaps? That might be fun!).

SpicymulledSheraz · 23/12/2006 19:27

front bottom?

Pruni · 23/12/2006 19:27

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hunkermunker · 23/12/2006 19:28

It's not a bottom though, is it? Poo comes out of bottoms (a waste product) - babies (well, OK, and wee) come out of vulvas. Plus boys have bottoms too - I think it's nice and womanly to have a name for it that boys don't have.

hunkermunker · 23/12/2006 19:29
averymerrymonkeymooXmastoyou · 23/12/2006 19:30

HM - it might not be a vagina, technically butu it is common parlance amongst most adults and any GP or other adult would understand what she is referring too. PLus vulva is toooooo clinical for my liking, I use vagina so have no issue with DD doing the same.

For something more collquial I like the MN term fanjo or foofah (close friend is a theatre nurse in the gynae theatre and they call it a foofah!?).

shiningstar · 23/12/2006 19:31

fairy bits in our house and winky for a boys bits!!

hunkermunker · 23/12/2006 19:32

That's true, anyone would understand what she meant. Unlike "lily" or "twinklyglitterydoodahfoof" or whatever godawful euphemism people use.

SpicymulledSheraz · 23/12/2006 19:32

fanny?

Ceolas · 23/12/2006 19:34

I did teach them about babies coming from your vagina. DD2 thought she'd won a prize as she had something she didn't know she had before. Went around chanting "I've got a vagina..."

I just loathe the word vulva though. Don't know why. We say bottom for the moment...

lulumama · 23/12/2006 19:37

fanjo........yes, twill be a fanjo, when dd old enough to appreciate the magic of that word

Stockingsofdinosaurs · 23/12/2006 19:51

Front bottom - to most under 10s it's just where you wee from, so I'd categorise that with bottoms. The actual bit where the baby comes out is practically impossible to find at that age and the whole concept seems so far-fetched as to be mythical.

I know a midwife whose dd told me all about her baby sister coming out of her mum's daisy. FGS!

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 23/12/2006 20:02

front bottom is just awful!! its not an arse!! it is an entirely different thing! i hate front bottom. if youre too uptight to call it what it is, use something a bit less... evocative of crap, frankly.

i like fanois (pron fanwah) but only tonge in cheek. fanny is pretty clear, though i always felt uncomfortable saying it between the ages of about 10 to 30... fanjo better than bloody awful front bottom or lilly or any of that crap...

sorkycake · 23/12/2006 20:04

Tutti

averymerrymonkeymooXmastoyou · 23/12/2006 20:13

Fanny is ok for older children IMO but would have trouble using it with littl'uns

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 23/12/2006 20:22

why? is there something dirty about fanny? sounds very babyish to me...

wickedwinterwitch · 23/12/2006 20:23

Fanjo in our house

wickedwinterwitch · 23/12/2006 20:23

Fanjo is courtesy of enid btw

averymerrymonkeymooXmastoyou · 23/12/2006 20:24

I guess to me it sounds a bit sexual and a bit 'adult', but that might be just me

averymerrymonkeymooXmastoyou · 23/12/2006 20:24

I guess to me it sounds a bit sexual and a bit 'adult', but that might be just me

divastrop · 23/12/2006 21:11

this again

my dd1 always called it a foof-i dont know where she got it from but it was fine for a young girl i thought.better than 'fairy' as my mother used to call it.
when dd1 was staying with her in the summer she told her to wash her fairy in the bath-dd said'what the hell is my fairy???'.

dd1 is 8 now and sometimes says fanny,but i wouldnt use it to refer to dd2's.(she is 1)im sticking with foof!