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Anybody else's young toddler call them "mommy" instead of "mama"?

post #1 of 31
Thread Starter 
Just more curious than anything.

Miles is 19 mos. and has been calling me mama forever but in the last week or so has slowly transitioning into calling me mommy.

Just thought its cute.
post #2 of 31
My DD has switched over completely somewhere in the last 6 months to mommy. She's 24 months old.
post #3 of 31
My daughter is 23 months (today!) and started calling me mommy from mama about 4 months ago. She just switched one day. I thought it was cute, but also bittersweet, it sounds so grown up.

She'd been calling her father daddy for a month or two by that time.
post #4 of 31
My 16 month old is making the transition from dada to daddy the last week or so, but still says mama for me (when he says it at all, that is- he's been adressing my dh much more often then me).
post #5 of 31
DD (20 months) started with mama but now calls me either mommy or mamae. I don't remember when she switched.
post #6 of 31
DS1 called me mama for a long time, then it changed to mommy, now mom. DS2 never called me mama. He has always called me mommy, nothing else.
post #7 of 31
DD called me mommy exclusively for about 3 days last week and is now back to mama. Have no idea why the switch or why the switch back...
post #8 of 31
my 20 month old calls me mom, and has for quite awhile
post #9 of 31
Grace calls me Momom. I do recall that my son was older before calling me Mommy (from Mama). I love the extra 'm' on the end that my daughter throws in....
post #10 of 31
my 2 1/2 yr old boy just started using "mommy" instead of mama, though he's been saying daddy for a long time.
post #11 of 31
I think somewhere around 18 months he started calling me Mommy.. But he still says Mama occasionally, as well as Dada (but primarily calls DH Daddy)...
post #12 of 31
My 20 month old calls me both mama and mommy. She also calls me daddy, and calls daddy mama sometimes.
post #13 of 31
Thread Starter 
So interesting.
I guess its a developmental stage then.
post #14 of 31
My boy is lazy, he just goes MA!!! MA!!! and if I don't respond it's Mama! Lmao
post #15 of 31
My three year old still calls me mama, but in my family mom is mama even for the adults so perhaps that is why. The older kids sort of switch around a lot between mom, mommy and mama. I think mama is used when they really need me, like when they are hurt or tired.
post #16 of 31
Both my 3 1/2 year old and 18 month old call me Mom. I don't really care one way or another, but I am apparently not mama or mommy, I am Mom.
post #17 of 31
DS is 18 months and calls me mom mom or sometimes mommmmmmm holding the last m out for a long time. In the last month he's been getting into possessives like mine or dog's. He doesn't ever call me mommy, but if something belongs to me he says Mommy's pants or Mommy's coffee cup!
post #18 of 31
my 21 month old ds doesn't call me anything. at this point I'd answer to b*&%$
post #19 of 31
my DD has called me either mama or ma for a long time but now she has started transitioning to trying to call me mommy but she gets it backwards so she calls me meemo which I love! She has been calling DH daddy for a while now.
post #20 of 31
DD calls me Ma which is cute b/c that's what I call my mother. I refer to myself as Ema so she does sometimes call me Eh-ma. DH has been Ah-bah (Abba) since she started talking
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