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Do you...
...refer to yourself in the third person when you're talking to your baby?
I always promised I wouldn't, and don't; my sister does it, "Come to Aunty!" and it drives me mad! My friend does it with her daughter (which doesn't drive me mad!) and we got chatting about it today. She thinks it's cute and funny, it always gets a grin out of her dd so she must be right!
None-judgemental, I promise, I was just wondering what other people do!
I always promised I wouldn't, and don't; my sister does it, "Come to Aunty!" and it drives me mad! My friend does it with her daughter (which doesn't drive me mad!) and we got chatting about it today. She thinks it's cute and funny, it always gets a grin out of her dd so she must be right!
None-judgemental, I promise, I was just wondering what other people do!
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I like to think that I don't do it much in adult company though.
Before DD we'd always get xmas cards / thank you cards, etc from friends' babies that were written as though by them (if that makes sense). DH and I made a pact we would never do it (being the miserable gits we are!). What happened this Xmas?! LO sent her own thank you cards out, written by me complete with little jokes and anecdotes. I don't think anyone would believe me if I said she dictated them...
I've done the thank you cards from LO too, I just thought it was the right thing to do - whoops!
We also do cards from Sophie, but our thank you cards were written from us but then signed from all of us inc. Sophie.
I do use quite a bit of 'baby speak' but I make an effort to talk normally to her too, when I'm doing things around the kitchen etc and she's there I'll tell her what I'm doing.
KP xx
Yeah I do already - to my two dogs!
Not in baby speak though!
Now if my husband is with them, say in the kitchen, and he says, "Where's your Mum" - They will actually come and find me!
Whilst on this topic, I always vowed that I would not be one of those mothers that put's their baby on the phone when talking to relatives/friends....and guess what...i totally do! I hope my friends/ relatives understand and find it sweet like I do, although I recall thinking it was an odd thing to do before M arrived!
Oh well, the things us mummys do (and always said we wouldn't!)
Emma x
I will say to Lily 'eat your breakfast for mummy' or 'Does Lily want a drink' instead of 'do you want a drink'.
It just seems more natural to talk to babies this way.
Me & hubby also call each other mummy & daddy - bizarre!
We should Pootle??? Surely they get the concept of "you, me, I" as much as the concept of anything else, like "Mummy, Daddy, cow, dog, car"?