AIBU to want to throw up every time I come across the word "chestfeeding"?

YANBU. “Chest feeding” is a stupid piss-take of a phrase, it’s on a par with “bitty”. I believe it’s yet another way of undermining mothers who want to give their kids the very best start in life.

How does that work for anyone?!?! Transmen are not going to appreciate that.

Yep “chest feeding” is grim.

Pretty sure I got a lactational abscess in my breast, not my chest 😂

Where inclusive merges into confusing

But I’m confused. We’re the women amongst the people who were pregnant etc or are they just random women? Are they suggesting women are not people?

Note other phrases on that page:

Nearly six in ten women and people who were pregnant at the time of the survey said they were worried about...

Nearly four in ten women and people who have given birth said...

A further one in five women and people who had given birth:

Here is a new one that I have not come across before.

https://www.nct.org.uk/sites/default/files/2026-01/NCT-Parent-Experience-Report.pdf

Page 3.

*”Around one in five women parents told us that:

Women parents??

Correct. I lost a dear male friend 20 years ago. He had breast cancer which subsequently spread to his bones.

The medics called it breast cancer because that's what it was.

If you have a functioning female reproductive system, you don’t have a disorder of sexual development, ie you aren’t intersex. It’s pretty much definitional. Has this person given birth? Yes. Definitely female.

This in a nutshell.
It melts my brain.

YANBU. Its pathetic. Do we eat chest of chicken? Or walk two achest? Or swim the Chest Stroke?

This is another major factor here. There is no possible feedback from infant to mother. Male breasts do not have that capability.

It really is one of those things where male people lack the understanding about the mother and infant interaction. Many male people enter these threads and declare that their male breasts are ‘exactly’ the same as female breasts. Yet they have no fucking idea about how the mother’s body makes adjustments to the milk for the infant.

Yanbu.

And any man, delusional or otherwise, that would subject a baby to this frankenstein 'I can't believe it's not milk' is either a pedo or an abusive parent.

No decent father would put his baby's health below getting his kicks or validation.

And the women who claim they are men, while happily doing something that 100% confirms they are a woman, are just attention seeking bellends, completely lacking the emotional maturity needed to be a parent.

Every human being that lives, has lived or will live, was birthed by a woman.

I'd also like to add that I have never anywhere seen just 'chestfeeding' used.
I've seen it alongside breastfeeding but never in place of.

Rather than trying to abuse their body for being somehow wrong, they should be trying to embrace the ways it which it is right. Rather than ashamed of their body’s femininity, they could learn to appreciate it.

Why is it not relevant that intersex people exist?
Personally I dont care what terms are used. I think in medical settings things do need to be inclusive because everyone does need to be included in the medical care. They are trying to lok after people not make some sort of moral point. There may be people who do not identify as women (such as trans men or non binary people or intersex people) who also feed their babies this way
They may not access help when needed due to not realising they will be treated with respect by the medical professionals.
I work in healthare and it doesn't matter your own personal views on something. What matters is that you reach ALL the people who need reaching for your service.
Personally I would use both terms (breast feeding and chestfeeding) so that it covers all bases.
I know what its like on this site so I know im going to get backlash for saying this but using terms like this is not dehumanising anyone. I've breastfed 3 children. You can call it breastfeeding.. but be aware not everyone calls it that and on NHS leaflets etc they may use other terms so everyone feels included.
I dont think you must have much on in your life if you can get this riled up about the wording used in a leaflet.

It's gross and unnecessary as is the term 'human milk'. Women breastfeed their babies breastmilk, it's as simple as that.

Surely this liquid is not the nourishing breastmilk that women naturally produce . It is well known that breastmilk adjusts the needs of the child .

You're not wrong OP. One of the many offensive aspects of the gender cult.

So why would someone identifying as male do one of the most female things possible? And then get upset at words used to describe the processes.

Babies are just bits of equipment to these men. Like the women they use as an unconsenting audience when they trespass in women’s spaces. No human connection, let alone any respect or empathy.

my breastfeeding group has breast in the name. Definitely one of its many selling points

Some women who have given birth, but identify as male, do not like being called mothers, and would say they don’t have breasts. But I’m sure it is a minority, and personally I have never seen it called chest feeding anywhere apart from when it is quoted on places like MN and FB