What does LO call you?

*Scuzzlebutt* · April 2010

DD calls me Mommy or Mummy. I never called myself anything but Mommy to her because I didn't want to be called Momma or Mama.

MIL and SIL always refer to me as "Momma" to her and it makes me crazy. SIL's kids are all teenagers and they still call her Momma. I guess it's just habit for them but it annoys me.

Is "Momma" a Southern thing? I don't mean to offend anyone by that, of course. We spent the last two years living in Alabama and Texas it seems like everyone says that down there. Apparently "Mummy" is pretentious, according to some of DH's family. Just curious what everyone else goes by.

GLynn2009 · April 2010

Mommy my teenagers call me Mom.

brightning · April 2010

Mommy or sometimes Mom.

pea-kay · April 2010

I'm Mommy. But I like Mama too. Just not "Mom". Not for another 12 years, at least.

*Scuzzlebutt* · April 2010

I should clarify that "Mama" melted my heart when she was first talking. I'm just glad she switched to Mommy/Mummy at 2 because that's what I secretly wanted.

I think adults saying "Mama" is weird though, which is what DH's family does (although he is a big boy and says "Mom")

pea-kay · April 2010

I still call my mom "mama" sometimes, I guess it's a regional thing. "Mummy" sounds really weird here, but I think it's more common in Canada, right?

Halo79RN · April 2010

I still call my mom Momma. Yes, it's very southern. I grew up in MS.

my dc call me Momma and Mommy. we live in nyc.

my mil goes by MawMaw (which is also a southern thing) by the grandkids. I remember a friend did not want her lo to call her mil that b/c "it sounds too much like mama". and I never thought that until ds started calling her MawMaw... and it really does sound a little like Mama. but I'm the Momma, so who cares? lol. My mom goes by Nana. She wanted to be Nona (Italian) but my nephew called her Nana and it stuck.

jnksmom · April 2010

DD always calls me mommy. DS calls me mommy most of the time but has started to call me mom and I don't like it...it just sounds too grown up. As PP said in 12 years mom is okay but not yet.

I do think that momma is a southern thing. It is okay but not my preference either.

*Scuzzlebutt* · April 2010

pea-kay:
I still call my mom "mama" sometimes, I guess it's a regional thing. "Mummy" sounds really weird here, but I think it's more common in Canada, right?

"Mummy" is very British, so that's where we Canadians get it from. MIL (from Texas) looked at me like I was crazy when I first told her I wanted to be Mummy or Mommy.

"MawMaw" is HUGE in Texas where we lived, but mostly for Grammas. Then there was MeeMaw.

Halo79RN · April 2010

And I'll add my mom still called her mom Momma last summer right before she died. she still refers to her as Momma or Granny (My brothers and I called her Granny). I'll never forget the sound of my mom calling out "Momma" when my Granny coded in the hospital. (Random, sorry.... but it's what comes to mind right now)

jnksmom · April 2010

*Scuzzlebutt*:
pea-kay:
I still call my mom "mama" sometimes, I guess it's a regional thing. "Mummy" sounds really weird here, but I think it's more common in Canada, right?

"Mummy" is very British, so that's where we Canadians get it from. MIL (from Texas) looked at me like I was crazy when I first told her I wanted to be Mummy or Mommy.

"MawMaw" is HUGE in Texas where we lived, but mostly for Grammas. Then there was MeeMaw.

DH is from Australia and he and his siblings call MIL "mum".

Halo79RN · April 2010

jnksmom:
*Scuzzlebutt*:
pea-kay:
I still call my mom "mama" sometimes, I guess it's a regional thing. "Mummy" sounds really weird here, but I think it's more common in Canada, right?
"Mummy" is very British, so that's where we Canadians get it from. MIL (from Texas) looked at me like I was crazy when I first told her I wanted to be Mummy or Mommy.
"MawMaw" is HUGE in Texas where we lived, but mostly for Grammas. Then there was MeeMaw.
DH is from Australia and he and his siblings call MIL "mum".

yeah, I wouldn't think you'd hear too many moms referred to as Mum or Mummy in KY , huh?

My MIL goes by MawMaw as the term for Grandmother (just linking the story of the MawMaw sounds too much like Mama thing). My dh and his sibs call her Mom. She's originally from Minnesota ... FIL is from NOLA... so they live there.. that's how she took the grandma name "MawMaw" our dads go by PawPaw. ... oh and I still call my dad Daddy most of the time and my dh calls his Papa or Pop. ?

*Scuzzlebutt* · April 2010

jnksmom:
*Scuzzlebutt*:

pea-kay:
I still call my mom "mama" sometimes, I guess it's a regional thing. "Mummy" sounds really weird here, but I think it's more common in Canada, right?

"Mummy" is very British, so that's where we Canadians get it from. MIL (from Texas) looked at me like I was crazy when I first told her I wanted to be Mummy or Mommy.

"MawMaw" is HUGE in Texas where we lived, but mostly for Grammas. Then there was MeeMaw.

DH is from Australia and he and his siblings call MIL "mum".

I'd forgotten about Australians. People I know from there say "Mum" too.

Lambchoppe · April 2010

I'm Mommy. I would not respond to Mummy, Mama or Ma.

Halo79RN · April 2010

Lambchoppe:
I'm Mommy. I would not respond to Mummy, Mama or Ma.

I guess I don't get this. My kids can call me mother, momma, mama, ma, mommy, mum, mom ... so long as they don't call me anything vulgar and don't call me by my first name, call me any reference to Mother and I'm fine. My mom had a big dislike of the name "mommy" I don't ever remember calling her Mommy... she hated it.

i just don't get it?

MamaNikki · April 2010

I'm Mommy or Mama.

Maybe Momma or Mama is a regional thing.

I'd actually prefer to be called 'Mom' by my DC when they're older....says the lady whose bump name is "MamaNikki"....Ha ha haaa.

My mom calls her mom "Mother." However, she grew up in Southern California.

Bre92504 · April 2010

I'll take anything, mamma, mommy, mummy even mom. DS calls me daddy. It has been this way since he started talking. The other day DH and I picked him up from the sitter and he gets in the car, smiles and yells..."daddies!". We have ALL been working on trying to get him to say mommy but he just smiles and says daddy. The weird thing is when you ask him where mommy is he points to me. So Im not going to get to picky about what he ends up deciding on.(as long as it's not my name, that would make me sad)