To find the phrase "boobmonster" or "boobiemonster" makes me cringe?

[PetalMettle]

Your child likes to feed/feeds frequently. Can't you just say that?

I'm going to start doing this. "Good morning male infant. You didn't sleep through the night last night did you, that is because your body clock is insufficiently developed, it's very normal. Shall I feed you some breakfast cereal that is appropriate for your age? Yes, you seem to enjoy the taste of it. Now I shall dress you in some clothes and take you outside, male infant. It is quite cold so I shall be sure to dress you in warm garments and cover you with a blanket of adequate thickness."

Why shouldn't someone say 'on the boob' when that is literally what is happening? People say 'I'm giving the baby a bottle' all the time and nobody gets het up. Maybe I should have got mad about people referencing bottles because my DD refused every type of bottle and teat with every milk at every temperature known to mankind and was such a frequent feeder I didn't get a single hour to myself until she was 8 months old, whereas friends with babies who would consent to take a bottle could go for dinner or a run or to the hairdresser?

It's awful but used to ensure people know they are BF rather than FF in an attempt to feel superior.

Quite why people can't just say feeding the baby is beyond me.

God know YANBU.

I'm on a breastfeeding support group on facebook and I've almost left it so many times because of the minority of women who seemingly lose the ability to speak like a grown up.

Other terms which give me the rage are....

Boob juice
Oh wise mummas
I've ebf my 13mo...

'I was up all night feeding the baby' no further info required.

This thread is bonkers

It's awful but used to ensure people know they are BF rather than FF in an attempt to feel superior.

Here we go.......

It's way too early on a Sunday for a BF/FF bunfight.

No Sheldon, it's really really not. Really not. As in my first post,it describes for me much more than the baby's hunger. She didn't want a bottle. She refused all bottles. She wanted milk from a boob, immediately and frequently. Nothing superior about that. Just facts. If you perceive that someone wants someone else to feel inferior that's your issue not mine.

And yet of I said "mothers who ff their children don't like those terms because it reminds them of their inadequacy because of their failure to breastfeed their child" I would be flamed. Quite rightly of course, because that's rude and unnecessary and inaccurate for all but a very small minority. But you know, breastfeeding mums are literally nazis so...

Boobing the baby?
Boobing?

If, not of, excuse my typos!

It's awful but used to ensure people know they are BF rather than FF in an attempt to feel superior.

Nah people usually knew I was breastfeeding owing to the baby/toddler firmly clamped to my nipple! 😂

Didn't use the phrases myself. Can't get het up about it. Some of my friends did. Dd was obsessed with my boobs. Always putting her hand down my top even when she was 3 but by that stage, I imagine it was more force of habit as I stopped feeding her at 2.5.

It makes me cringe too.

It's not a bf VS ff question as I'm still bfing my 18mo and until he was about 10 months he was feeding 12-16 times every 24 hours.
I think it's probably more that I don't like the term boob, as someone said it seems very teenage boy to me. and boob monster makes me think of someone gropey!

It made me chuckle reading boobing in your post but having said that I wouldn't use it in intelligible conversation. Just sounds trashy imoh

Absolutely! I only bf to feel 'superior'- and mock those who ff, because I'm horrible like that and overinvested in how others feed their baby.

YANBU. Grim. I have used 'milk monster' on occasion, but very rarely. And I do sometimes say to DS "Come on then, let's boob you" but would never ever say that if anyone was around to hear it!

The older a baby gets, breastfeeding becomes less and less about 'milk' and 'feeding'. 'Boob' is an all-encompassing term to say 'my child needs to feed/relieve pain/find reassurance/fall asleep/get the general feeling of bliss/alleviate boredom/all of the above/or something....that they get from breastfeeding.' There are breastfed three year olds out there. Hint: they're not hungry.

'Feed' or 'milk' does not even come close. If someone can come up with a better umbrella term than 'boob' then I'll use it, but until then, boob it is. And yes, I had two card-carrying boobmonsters. There is absolutely no term more suited to manic, boob-obsessed, world-revolving around boobs babies/toddlers. Maybe you just don't have one of those OP which is why the term doesn't sit well with you?

And no, is has absolutely fuck-all with asserting my superiority over people who FF. Take your own insecurities about that and FTFO. Don't project it onto me and my feeding choices.

It's a nauseating term and I too am reminded of sniggering teenage boys and/or Benny Hill style humour.

YABU

I have no idea if I've ever used the term, but I can't imagine giving that much of a shit about how someone refers to their own child to cringe about it (excepting someone being horrible to their child) and I certainly wouldn't censor my own language to avoid annoying someone else. Who with a baby has got the energy for that?

God no* not God know...

For this who say it describes the heed to breast feed for comfort, I tend to just go with he needs his mummy. Boob doesn't need to be brought into it. After all for ff babies sometimes only a snuggle into mummy will do.

Yeah, it's cringey.

I find "newborn snuggles/cuddles" equally cringey.