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

[PetalMettle]

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

Personally I spent all night bottling my formula fiend...

I'm sure I've been guilty of calleing dd a boob monster when she was little. Never ever said Boobing though!

NoCapes You don't call it 'bottling' so why call it 'boobing??

Imagine if someone actually said 'I'm just going to bottle the baby', sure that would get some raised eyebrows!

Exactly username! It would be funny though, I might say it in company just to see people's faces
"DS wouldn't go to sleep last night so in the end I bottled him, worked a treat!"

My DD is a boob monster (sorry), she is 4 and a half and still tries to latch on at any given opportunity, tweak my nipples and squeeze them. It's entirely inappropriate.

Not as disgusting as "Mummy juice"

Some language is just cringeworthy- I don't actually mind 'boob monster' (though don't use it, as I don't really have one), but hate 'nap-naps', as in 'shall we go and change your nap naps?' (Said by really good friend, and makes me cringe every time)- so I can see how other people could find boob monster the same kind of thing. I don't think it's a bf vs ff debate though!

I once heard on here 'we don't want visitors following the birth ....just DH baby and me in on 'Milkymoon'

Likening it to honey moon and then baby moon
I guess at least poster didn't use Boobymoon

I just don't like the word boobs in general and think boob monster sounds like a gropey old man as pp suggested.
I don't think I've suggested it should be banned anywhere just wondered if it made anyone else cringe. I reckon this thread suggests about 70% of people do

I called DS a "tit gremlin" to dh the other day. Not something I'd say in any other company. The head shaking and grunting noises he made while waiting impatiently the 7 seconds it took for me to whack a nipple out was hilarious!

I also call him young sir and Master Bradshaw (we're quite formal in our house) but 'male infant' has just jumped straight to the top of the pet names list!

'Tit gremlin'???? Definitely one to keep between you and your DH!

By the time my milk came in I had H cup breasts. My DS took to breastfeeding like a champ and would virtually bury himself in my breasts when feeding. My DM thought he was going to suffocate himself at one point, which is when I said 'death by boob' or 'boobed to death' would be hard to explain on a death certificate (and would make awesome band names).

'Boobing' has had that connotation for me ever since.

'Mummy/boob milk' and 'mummy/boob juice' make my arse twitch. Milk. Milk is fine. I did my fair share of days where putting a top on seemed like a frivolity that would just give DS the rage (thank God he was a summerborn. I even opened the door to the midwives in a maternity bra and yoga pants and when I apologised for being lazy and not having a top on they said I was probably the most sensible mum they'd seen that day) but I never felt the need to advertise that I bf. I just did. Same with the rest of my family. Those terms just scream 'attention seeking' to me.

Mummy milk is FAR more offensive to my ears than boob milk or boobies even.
And I wouldn't think of a dirty old perve in the same line as boobs as boobs are a more innocent word. Boobs bums and wee wees go together in my head. Perve, Tits and arse might be closer to each other in terminology.
Does that make sense?

And my breast surgeon actually called them boobs last week so 😝

The fact your breast surgeon used the word is far more offensive than some twee mummy! Why do some medical professionals think it's okay to talk to people like they are children?

You people are really strange. I don't get why the word boob or breast is worse than the word bottle in the context of baby feeding?!?

I guess if people want a better word for feeding an older child I've always liked the term 'nursing' but it wouldn't surprise me if people have issue with that too.

Nothing wrong with breast

Boob is very twee. And used as a verb is even worse

I think 'nursing' is fine. But 'feeding' generally covers it.

I'm currently surrounded (not literally) by friends who have recently had babies and so many of them are using the term 'boob monster', especially on Facebook. I'm starting to think I should just defriend the lot of them. To use a marvellous MN term, it makes my teeth itch. Not jealous that all my friends have babies and I have none, oh no.

Only1scoop that is horrendous!

OP YANBU. Its too twee for my ears!

Boob monster just reminds me of my youngest, who was weaned but once a week, bored while waiting for sibs to finish swimming, would more or less crawl up inside my shirt demanding tit. Or boob. Or breast.

I really can't get excited about it. 'Mummy juice' makes me cringe but boob monster... nah.

Dear god is 'mummy juice' an actual thing?! That is far, far worse!

Mummy juice makes me think of something coming out of you when giving birth
And mrshandles, I've been there and it sucks

Mummy juice sounds awful!!!

My son did call it "mommy milk" though.

Yanbu. I had friends who's child came up to them asking for 'bookie'. I fed my DS til he was 2 and found that him asking for 'milk' was perfectly clear!!