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Cute names you call your baby when feeding (boobie bandit)

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Firstimefreaked · 25/09/2017 10:34

Sometimes feeding my lo can be a little boring (massive cluster feed sessions happening) I've started calling her the beast of boobie or the boobie bandit. What do you call you hungry babe?

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Hatstand · 25/09/2017 12:07

Professor SnoozenBoob Grin glad I'm not the only one who does this!

SuburbanRhonda · 25/09/2017 12:08

Please tell me this isn't for real.

kingfishergreen · 25/09/2017 12:12

I'm not one for boob related nicknames, but I used to sing to DD while she ate (drank): "Hungry, hungry horse, drinking Pink Champagne, of course". I made it up, one bleary dawn and it stuck.

EdithWeston · 25/09/2017 12:22

I quite liked Libby Purves's description of how to foster stoicism in the early days of breast-feeding, by visualising oneself as an early Christian martyr being mauled by a small but very determined lion

Firstimefreaked · 25/09/2017 12:28

Totally real! Ha lol to your lil professor hatstand. Oh kingfisher I love singing to her too it's awesome that your songs have titles pink champagne sounds classy!

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Firstimefreaked · 25/09/2017 12:29

Edith Weston I get the lion thing I find mind mine more like a snuffling piglet now.

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n0ne · 25/09/2017 12:31

Milky-Moo when she's got milk all over her face and Snuffle-Pig cos of the cute noises she makes Grin

Winteriscomingneedmorewood · 25/09/2017 12:31

My dc announced newborn ds had boobie juice!! Really no need to have the official breast milk title from a dc if they choose otherwise!!

n0ne · 25/09/2017 12:32

Whoa, I see you have a Snuffle-Pig too, OP!

RJnomore1 · 25/09/2017 12:35

Oh good lord.

Edith I am firmly with you.

ninecoronas · 25/09/2017 12:38

Snortle-hog, or Billy Bunter the Truffle Hunter Blush

poddige · 25/09/2017 12:38

You'll all find yourselves on the 'phrases you hate on MN' thread soon if you're not careful!

SleepFreeZone · 25/09/2017 12:44

I'm still feeding my 19 month old and I tell him to 'get on booby' and he always laughs and opens his mouth wide. He's a cutey 😍

Hatstand · 25/09/2017 12:49

Almost certainly poddige, though realising that it will annoy people despite having no impact on them whatsoever makes me want to start doing it loudly and publicly.

Hatstand · 25/09/2017 12:56

You'll know it's me if one day you're innocently queuing in Costa and hear someone shouting 'dinner is served, lady boobington'.

Ekphrasis · 25/09/2017 15:03

I used to make up a song about his name ... I avoided saying the word boob as I did not want him to scream "booooooob!!!" When a little older.

Just a word of warning... Wink

Firstimefreaked · 25/09/2017 20:56

My lo has cradle cap in her brows my oh said I was off to feed the crusty bean . Oh lady boobieton! I think the names we call are generally in our head or partners atleast for me...though you would have caught me walking to lidl today singing I love boobie lol...tbh because I could!

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Firstimefreaked · 25/09/2017 20:58

Chortled at Billy Bunter!

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Firstimefreaked · 25/09/2017 20:59

I sometimes think of her as my demon dumpling when she's being a fuss pot.

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QueenNefertitty · 25/09/2017 21:06

Just to give the other side of this... DS (1) has started to chant "booby booby booby" over and over. Sometimes when he's sad he'll cry "boooobbbbbeeeee" very plaintively.

He was pointing at things and asking "gat? Gat? Gat?" (What's that, I'm assuming) so I was naming things the other day "bed" "book" "tree" etc etc.

In the midst of this, "DS" said I, "who am I? What am I called?" And with the biggest grin on his face, he slapped me on the chest and shouted "BOOOOOBEEEE".

This shit goes both ways.

MrsA2015 · 25/09/2017 21:11

DD is two next month and screams out BOOOBBBBIEEE when she's tired and hungry. Anywhere and everywhere.

I can't even get annoyed with it because she also says "please" at the endGrin

We called her squishy face to begin with because of how her face would be creased up and squashed after a good feed

MaroonPencil · 25/09/2017 21:14

I used to call mine Sucky Moo.

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BrutusMcDogface · 25/09/2017 21:17

I think toddlers and older (feeding children who can talk) should maybe say "milk!" Instead of "boobie!" because I fucking hate the term boobie but that's just me!

In my circle I have friends who are feeding 3 yos and one is even feeding her reception aged child (alongside her little sister). That's 100% fine and I think each to their own, etc. But it makes me cringe when said children request boobie or are offered boobie.

bottlesandcans · 25/09/2017 21:26

Gross

somersetsinger · 25/09/2017 21:37

I've always offered 'milk' and did the baby sign language sign (squeeze hand together as if milking a cow).

Dd has ignored all of this and requests breastmilk by saying 'mouth'. She has a logic of sorts.

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