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To hate the term "boobing" for breastfeeding?

105 replies

legfaced · 26/09/2016 11:04

Just that. What's wrong with calling it breastfeeding/feeding?

OP posts:
lovelyleftrubbishright · 26/09/2016 11:14

Yes, it's awful. It's up there with 'booby juice' for breast milk/milk!

LetsJunglyJumpToIt · 26/09/2016 11:17

I remember years ago a Dad saying to his baby 'Do you want some tit'?

WTAF? Still makes me cringe now.

JinkxMonsoon · 26/09/2016 11:17

Horrible.

"Keep on boobing!"

Aaaaargh.

Mozfan1 · 26/09/2016 11:18

I've only ever read it on here. Bit cringe!

CousinCharlotte · 26/09/2016 11:18

Very uncouth.

purplefizz26 · 26/09/2016 11:26

Yanbu

A lot of parents, especially new mums, feel the need to give things stupid names and label everything they do when it comes to parenting.

It's not 'boobing' or 'booby juice' or 'on the boob' or 'boob monster' or 'booby milk' or 'booby time'

You are feeding your child. With milk. Hmm

ToneDeafHamster · 26/09/2016 11:27

YABU

Seriously, who really gives a shit. Hmm

Jackie0 · 26/09/2016 11:28

Ive honest!y never heard that term

SleepFreeZone · 26/09/2016 11:29

I call it boob. My son calls it booby. I think it's quite cute 🙈

imwithspud · 26/09/2016 11:29

Meh, who cares?

missm0use · 26/09/2016 11:31

I always call it breastfeeding, think calling it by any other name only encourages people to take issue with it like voldermort lol!
Although when I talk to DD I call it milkies or milk and cuddles or sometimes boobie doobie - although that was is more OH nickname for it. Should point out that DD is 8 months!! Smile

KayTee87 · 26/09/2016 12:15

I've never heard anyone call it that! I sometimes ask my baby if he wants some mummy milk in a stupid voice Blush but wouldn't do it in front of anyone else.

BorpBorpBorp · 26/09/2016 12:16

I have never heard it called that.

I thought 'boobing' was slapping someone in the face with your boob.

liz70 · 26/09/2016 12:36

Yes, but then I abhor the word "boob" used for "breast" anyway. In my vocabulary a boob is a mistake.

Soubriquet · 26/09/2016 12:38

I really don't like it when I read pump/pumping

"I spent all morning pumping"

Gives me the creeps for some reason. It's just one of those words I don't like

Notso · 26/09/2016 12:49

I left a Facebook parenting group after someone got a T-shirt for their kid with
Cloth on my bum,
Boob juice in my tum,
Worn by my Mum
printed on it. So cringy. They all loved it though.

NewPotatoes · 26/09/2016 12:54

I left a Facebook parenting group after someone got a T-shirt for their kid with
Cloth on my bum,
Boob juice in my tum,
Worn by my Mum
printed on it. So cringy. They all loved it though

That has hit pretty much every cringe-button in my psyche.

I hate comedy words for breasts in general. It's as if women are slightly afraid of their own bodies and need joky words to infantilise them, or something? I always want to karate chop Gok bloody Won in the windpipe when he shrieks on about 'bam bams'. Angry

EvansAndThePrince · 26/09/2016 12:58

I do see your point but you're not going to say to a baby/toddler "would you like to come and have some breast milk?"

My daughter calls it boobie, I call it boobie, we both know what we mean and it doesn't affect you in any way so YANU.

Cheerfullygo4 · 26/09/2016 13:05

Can I add 'wearing' your baby. Your baby is not an item of clothing. Just don't get it. Irritating expression.

limeandsoda93 · 26/09/2016 13:06

Don't mind boobing (although it's not the term I use) but I can't stand boobie juice. It's milk?!

JinkxMonsoon · 26/09/2016 13:07

Cloth on my bum,
Boob juice in my tum
Worn by my Mum

Haha, that's the smug "mama" holy trinity Grin

Marmalade85 · 26/09/2016 13:10

Never heard of it but lolling at 'do you want some tit'

leedy · 26/09/2016 13:10

YANBU. And I speak as one of those weirdy natural term breastfeeders.

(DS2 calls it "milktime")

kierenthecommunity · 26/09/2016 13:12

I hate the phrase 'trust your tits' when it comes to BFing too. The word tits for breasts was probably last used in the On the Buses or Benny Hill era, and should stay firmly there. Even if it's used by women in some sort of reclaiming the word way.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 26/09/2016 13:12

It annoys the pants off me tbh. I also don't get the insistence on breast feeding. It's like virtue signalling. Just say "feeding".

Posters typing away "I'm sat here BFing..." STOP IT!!! "Feeding" is fine.

Iyswim.