about DH calling breastfeeding "titty"?

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DS2 (5 months) is breastfed.

When I talk about it to DS1/2, I call it milk, i.e.

"Would DS2 like some milk" or "DS2 is having his milk"

DH, on the other hand, insists on calling it titty. His usual response to me asking him to call it milk is to say "DS2 is having milk from the titty".

I am getting more and more annoyed about DH's refusal to stop calling it titty.

For starters, I call it milk because that's what DS2 is actually drinking, but more importantly, I really don't want DS1 to get it into his head that it's fine to use the term "titty" for DS2 breastfeeding. DS1 is only 2.5yrs old, and I don't want to be in the sitution where I'm trying to breastfeed DS2 discreetly in public, and have DS1 yelling "TITTY!" at the top of his voice.

DH thinks that I'm being ridiculously oversensitive about this. AIBU?

YUCK.

is your husband 17?

nat - oh it's bitty! forgot

I would not be keen on this either. It just sounds a bit smutty doesn't it?
Fine for the bedroom, not suitable for a child.

Are you married to a 12 year old boy?????

Little Britain is bitty, not titty.

I hate the word titty. I don't know why much prefer boob or breast.

YANBU - your description made me shudder. Good luck with the re-education programme

Urgh. No, wouldn't like this at all

YANBU. I wouldn't like it one little bit...

Teach your older son to painfully tweak your husband's nipples and loudly declare 'TITTY!' at every opportunity.

Then ignore your husband when he refers to yours in the same vein.

That should bring it to a swift (if not entirely painless) end...

Ugh, I hate that word. YANBU. You are the one breastfeeding. If your DC1 refers to YOU breastfeeding, then I think the word should be one which you like/tolerate.

midlands too and yes have heard the expression used when I was at school titty baby was a cry baby.

still that was littie school kids in 1974 not grown adult men in 2014.

I would struggle to make love to or respect a twat like this op sorry.

It is a revolting word and he must be doing it to wind you up now. Urgh.

I'm in central Scotland and older folk round here call dummies tits and it gives me the creeps. I had never heard it before moving here.

Ah yes, it was bitty, not titty! Still that's what it made me think of!

It made me cringe when I read it, it's crass.

MrsReiver I remember a rhyme that went something like "tell tale tit, your mummy canna knit, your daddy canna go to bed without a dummy-tit"

My DP always suggests Titty whenever we discuss baby names

When I was a child baby bottles were habitually called 'titty bottles' by most people.

It's not a term I like or have ever used so, IMO, YANBU. Mind you, I don't like or use boob / boobies either.

When any of my lot wanted a bf they would ask for 'feeding' in a whiny tone more often than not

Yeah tell him to stop it. He is being a big tit.

JanePurdy... That was the name of one of the girls in Swallows and Amazons, wasn't it? Love that film.

Yuck. YNBU. He's an immature idiot for not stopping although he knows you hate the word.

YADNBU. It is both vile & disrespectful in equal measure.

I think your simply calling it 'milk' makes perfect sense, as that is what DS2 is having & it DS1 will understand easily.

If your DH feels the need to use a different word, then 'breast' would be the appropriate word.

Apart from the disrespect to you, I would not like my DH teaching my small child to call a woman's breasts 'titties' in any context .

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe yes, Susan, John, Roger and Titty. He is not suggesting it in homage to Swallows & Amazons though!

it is something DS2 will understand easily.