to cringe at the term " boobing the baby "

[anxiousmumma12]

Hear it so much on mumsnet

' boob milk "
' boob the baby '

Yuck yuck so cringe

Just say breast feeding or breast milk

I can't believe lots of posters have said they have not heard of 'boob the baby' or ' give them boob'. It was the standard vocabulary all of my NCT and other mat leave acquaintances. I ho early never though anything of it. Jesus.
And it's 'too' op, not 'to'.

Ahem. * I have really never bought anything more of it.

Thought! Fucking nails. Thought!

paradyning I've probably escaped it because I don't have children, and I don't read the breast feeding threads on MN (unless like this one the title sounds amusing ). I have heard 'putting the baby on the boob' though.

‘You are feeding your baby. What is the point of describing it like this?!’

Babies want the boob for different reasons, not just feeding. My first was a complete boob monster - he owned my boobs for several years.

"Cloth bumming" for using cloth nappies makes me cringe a bit. And I used them.

So don't use it. Problem solved!

I do like using that phrase. Tough titties if you don't.

OP, YANBU. My neighbour is like this. Drives me insane.

"Time for milky cuggles" - (not a typo!)
"Uh oh, gotta boob her!"
"I boobed her to sleep last night"
"Does the boob monster want milky milks?"
"Time for Mummy boobing!" - As opposed to who? Daddy, Granny?

She's painful.

is this a phrase coming from a toddler or an actual adult?

it sounds like the former!

HildaZelda

Your neighbour sounds completely, cringingly painful!

I wouldn't call it that on here, but my oldest says boob milk for the babies milk, cow milk for hers and powder milk for the toddler, so we use the same if talking to her.
Presumably came about from me explaining the milk cones from my boob when initially explaining it to her. Don't see anything wrong with it.

@TurquoiseDress, you said it! It's not just me thinking it either. There are a few of us living in the street that go out together every so often. Last time we were organising a meet up one of the other neighbours said to me "Oh, do we really have to ask Mummy Boobs along?!, because even when she's out with us, she's still the same, "Oh I spent so long having to pump before I came out, and I'll have to pump again later because if have a drink baby boos can't have booby juice until tomorrow"

"Baby Boos" is three by the way. Extended breastfeeding.

Let's face it, everybody hates everything that anybody (but themselves) ever says or does

This.

I think the general consensus is I am not being unreasonable

I was visiting my mum and she called out, “The baby’s shit himself” to me.🤦‍♀️

I also hate boobing. It sounds ridiculous.

anxiousmumma12

yes you are definitely not being unreasonable!

I've never heard of half the terms being discussed here, it has been enlightening

I've always said booby juice. Can't see anything wrong with it. I'm perplexed why some people are so uptight about the term boobing the baby. It's not offensive, maybe cutsie but so what?!

Love arsewipes!
And bottling the baby made me laugh out loud!!

Erm because it's milk not fucking juice

I'm afraid I'm guilty of boobing to sleep too.

I'd only ever heard it on a thread on Mn

A poster was talking about boobing her baby to sleep. She got her arse handed to her on a plate

Also agree about changing a baby's bum. That's a real hun expression

As someone with "Fanny Gallops" in my user name, I am the first to admit different people have different verbal ticks and bete noirs.

But mine do happen to "boob the baby" "boob juice" "milky milks" etc. I just don't like them. And "bum change"- incorrect and faintly repellent.

@anxiousmumma12

Erm because it's milk not fucking juice

Have you always been this angry about such trivial things?

@Hatstand it’s personal preference. I don’t have an issue with the word boob, or nips, just the context they are used in

"Boobing the baby".

I'm having that.