'We know other same-sex parents that started off as one thing, but ended up as something else as the child got older,' says Drewitt-Barlow. One lesbian I know has her daughter call her by her first name, because she cannot abide the sugary labels others chose. Some names are a bit cutesy for my liking, but then same-sex couples do not have the thousands of years of precedent to follow, as straight couples do.
I wonder if this seems a bit hierarchical to Mommy2? 'But the moment they were born, we became Dad and Daddy.' Another gay couple I speak to say they go by 'Mommy and Mommy2'. 'We couldn't make our minds up what they should call us and we decided before the first twins were born that we would be many different things,' says Drewitt-Barlow.
