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1960984 tn?1328468228

nanny???

What will you guys call your own mothers whenyour little bundles of joy are here...for example... Nanny, nanna, grandma... Because i myself am only 19 nearly 20, my mum is only 36... So she says any of them make her feel old... So what other names are there???
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1900942 tn?1462421460
My mom is called Grammy and my grandma is GiGi
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1995033 tn?1334163103
My mom is going to be a young grandmother and she wants to be called mimi. My grandma wants to be called gg short for great grandma.
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1967331 tn?1327880044
my son calls my mom nanna
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My mom like being called granny
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1911870 tn?1345419009
Growing up I had mawmaw and pawpaw and mimi on the other side. My sister's kids call our mom grandma, but my mom hates it so we decided with my children they will call her mawmaw. I have also heard of go maw and gman.
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I have two moms :) so my kids call them nana (for my mom) and GG (for my step mom, which we kid n say it stands for grandmas girlfriend haha)

My girls call my mother in law - Ita cus they couldn't say Abuelita (were Hispanic) they use to call her yaya but she didn't like that cus it didn't sound like a grandma name (rolls eyes)
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1900462 tn?1352775302
I called my mom's mom grandma brown and ever since everyone calls her that. I was the first grandchild so I guess I picked the name out. I called her grandma brown cause when I was little I had so many grandparents it was hard to remember names. And since shes native american her skin is brown so I would call her grandma brown. Lol :) In my family we usually call grandparents by grandma/grandpa with their first name afterwards. Like grandma dee. But the grandpas are papa. Like papa tim or papa al. My mom hasnt said she doesnt want to be called grandma or anything. So hopefully it wont be a problem. :) oh yeah we also call one of our grandmas mormor too!
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1839656 tn?1329183801
My kids call my grandmother (who we all very close too) Nannie, my husbands mom is Meemaw, & my mom started out as Grandma but when my daughter was old enough to say it she would tell us no she's Grandmom so now that's what all my kids call her.
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2032869 tn?1333989114
My mom didnt wanna be called grandma either so my brother's daughter called her Mimi and it stuck. My dad is Pop Pop.
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I grew up calling my moms mom "granny goose" and somehow all my other cousins adopted it too lol. My dad is Swedish, his parents I called Farfar and Farmor, Swedish for fathers father and fathers mother. My mom wants I be Mormor, mothers mother, but my dad doesn't know if he likes Morfar... Lol. I told he can choose or we are going to find something outrageous to call him, like grampy or pappy lol!
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When we started having grandchildren we wanted our grandkids to be able to know us from the other grand parents. So we are Opa & Oma which is german for grandpa & grandma:)
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2013148 tn?1332981575
Im calling my mom grandma and my grandmother will be nanna
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My mother in law wants her granddaughter to call her Gma....
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Try Grandmommy, or KiKi or MoMo, but majority of the time babies choose their name for the grandparents. My oldest was the first grand baby for everyone (my adopted and birth parents, my ex husbands parents and my current husbands parents) my son has a Gramoma, Gandmu, Monay, Gammam, a Grad, Dida, and a Pop Pop. None of them but Pop Pop were planned.
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I'm half German, so my son calls my parents Oma and Opa, my husbands parents are divorced so we've got MiMi and PoPo and Grandma and Grandpa, and great grandma on his side. A friend of mines little girl calls her grandparents momo and papa bear, and another calls her Gma Gigi
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1756475 tn?1330538713
my mom is going to be Grandma.  but I know that my former boss's grandsons called her G'ma  They told her she was a hip old granny
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Mimi it a cute one too!! My aunt, her grandson calls her that..she's a  younger  grandma too!!
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Everyone in my family (my brothers, dad, & myself) started calling my mom grandama, needless to say, she hated it, she is only 16 years older than me. Now my kids are 12 & 8 with cell phones. Grandma has been chopped sown to gma (& gpa for grandpa). It doesn't seem to bother her as much, lol.
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My son calls my mom "honey". Lol he also calls his other grandmas "nana" and "nani"
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726324 tn?1324074610
My mom is nan or nanna. But my nan, which is my daughter's great grandmother, we refer to as GG, short for great grandmother.
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Working at a child care center we hear TONS of names for Grandma's because this happens all the time when they come and pick them up.  My top pick would be G-G.  My mom is only 45 and she was 40 when my brother had his first...she calls mom Nannie.  My grandma (Mom's Mom) wanted to be called Memaw because she was too young to be called "Grandma"  A friend of my boyfriends calls her grandma Mum (Granted she raised her).  I even knew a kid who called his madolla. like Ma....Dollar because she gave him a dollar each time he saw her.  My suggestion would be GG...or let the baby decide when he/she starts talking...trust me you'll try one thing and it'll end up something else!
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My nephew called his grandma mima :)
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2008858 tn?1343844041
Sheldon from big bang theory had a nice term using me-mar
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1960984 tn?1328468228
Ohhh spiket77 i like that idea :)
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