Dad, Daddy, Dada: What will my baby call me?

I’VE often wondered what it would be like to have a new name.

Dad, Daddy, Dada: What will my baby call me?

There’s never been an option for me really. I didn’t have a nickname. Colm doesn’t lend itself too easily to nicknaming. There are Cullys out there but I was never a Cully. Cullys give it a go. Colms — okay me — take it handy a while. If I had to pick a new name, I would like a dynamic one — maybe Fox Steptoe or Lance Carruthers, something with harder consonants. Turns out I mightn’t need it. The baby has started pointing at me and saying Dad. I think. She definitely says Mam when something’s wrong and she feels she needs to speak to a manager. She might also be saying ‘That’.

I’m curious to know what she’ll settle for.

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