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

[PetalMettle]

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

albus sometimes the baby doesn't want snuggles. They want boob and nothing else will do. Why be falsely coy about it?

YANBU. I hate it. It fucking grates.

In the same way people use the terms 'hun', 'lil man', 'doll' and 'hubby/hubster'. They grate too.

I know IABU when I lose any respect I have for people when I see these terms used but I can live with that.

Well in the same way I go and change a nappy, I don't go and wipe shit from the babies arse.

It just doesn't need saying.

It is a good point about it not just being about hunger - my ds in on feed 5 for the day despite having had a decent breakfast - but then when I eat chocolate it's not just about getting my nutritional needs met, but I still manage to use "eating" as a catch all...

Agreed.

Mine is a monster. But I don't really want to call her a 'boob monster'

I hate the word boob anyway - I changed doctor when I thought I had a lump on my breast and he called it a boob

I agree with several pps and op that I dislike the term 'boob' or 'booby' applied to feeding or my adult female body. I find it cringe worthy and infantising (I am away that the baby is an infant, but I am not).

I personally prefer the terms 'breast' when taking about my breast and 'feeding' when talking about feeding.

*aware

Oh my god livia, it's a million times worse in that context - i expect a doctor to be professional and use correct terms

I have never seen a doctor or a consultant who has used correct terms.

We describe him as a milky daemon.

I don't use it, but it wouldn't bother me. One of my friends refers to my breast milk as mummy milk which makes me want to vomit.

I don't like it either, but then I don't like 'Lil Man/Lady' etc.

'The baby feeds a lot' is all I would say.

😵 to doctors not using the correct terms

My boobs, I think I'll call them what I want actually.

Wtf to all the people saying they don't like references to boobs and Breastfeeding. How fucked up has society got around babies and how they are fed that we can't talk about it using the terms we want.

This thread is bizarre. Why does boobs and breast feeding together bother you?
I don't think I've ever said 'boob monster' but so what if someone does.
Off to give lil man some boob.

Boob monster makes me think of a gropey letchy man
'Boobing' gives me a mental image of someone snacking someone round the face with their boob
You don't call it 'bottling' so why call it 'boobing'??

I don't think people give a shit about breastfeeding references - it is the word boob that is twee to the point of wanting to vomit. Breast is a perfectly good word. (Waits for everyone piling in to say that, by that logic, everything should be referred to by its anatomically correct name).

And when a doctor says it, it is pathetic.

Boobs doesn't bother me, though I dislike boob as a verb.
Boobies is, in my mind, a word only used by children.

It should be 'breasting' surely? And ' my baby is a ' breast monster'.

'Boobing' gives me a mental image of someone snacking someone round the face with their boob

Not far off the reality of a nursing strike, to be fair...

@perfectlybroken - what do you call them then?

Boob ad a verb is weird. 'Boobmonster' is fine. Certainly applied to DS2 and I'd have happily described him as such if I'd heard of the word.

I don't like these terms and find them a bit twee, but it's really nothing to do with breastfeeding vs formula. Why even bring that up? Some people just love to be argumentative and it's usually the same ones

Both grim phrases IMO
As for 'Boobing' oh dear

Hate, hate, hate the term boobing. Just say feeding! Mine have both loved their milk and fed very frequently, I called them guzzlers. Dd1 is still a guzzler age 4, just now its not with milk, its with other drinks.

I was around bf circles years ago with mine. Never heard "book" as a verb. Is it a new thing? It's horrible. I guess you do what is the norm in your circles though, so if you're a new mum and that's what others around you call ir that's what you'd call it!