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

A typical 2 yr old probably doesn’t regularly need breastmilk overnight from a nutritional point of view.

They may however need or want comforting overnight, for whatever reason, and be using the breastfeeding as a way to get the comfort they want from their mum. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that as long as their mum is happy to provide it.

Delta breastfeeding overnight is hardly the equivalent of letting a child eat too many biscuits or run into a dual carriageway, how ridiculous.

Way to miss a point.

Delta What is the point of talking about biscuits and dual carriageways then? I’m not finding it obvious either

I say “Right let’s change your bum” to my toddler
Actually the convo usually goes like this:
Me: Does your bum need changing DS?
DS: No, it’s just a trump (lies)

I am common though

I’m BF DS2 9mo & I don’t use the term boob/boobing as I don’t really like it. I say “I’m just going to feed him” or “I’m going to give him some milk”.

My DP says “put him on the breast” and that makes me - breastfeeding does sound very formula so just say feed

Formal!! Sounds formal not formula

Also, a dummy is a ‘din din’ in this house. Confused my mum when DS1 would ask her for it, she kept giving him snacks instead

Shame this light-hearted thread got somewhat de-railed by insecure, precious types.

THIS

Hoping I'm not insecure or precious, but not a fan of 'boobing the baby'. Would I have been if I could have physically done it? Who knows, so whilst I don't like the expression I shan't be Judgey McJudge face at those who say it. I bottle fed DS, and merely called it 'feeding'.

I breastfed and didn't call it 'boobing' as I think it sounds weird. I just said I was 'feeding the baby'. Saying you don't much like the expression in no way equates to 'another way of berating BF mothers' FFS.

I breast fed both of mine. If I’d heard this term I think I would have used it.
I like it!

Breastfeeding mums are often criticised, judged, generally given a hard time for how they feed, how much their baby feeds, when they feed, where they feed etc etc. So although this thread is lighthearted for some of you, actually the discussion of what they call it is going to be something those mums want to enter the discussion about.

Along the way, the conversation has gone from talking about 'boobing' to grandiose statements from mums who clearly don't breastfeed toddlers saying with great certainty what they do and don't need at night. Rather than just go along with you, we are putting our view across. But to you, us doing that is apparently being defensive or precious

I know a few two year olds still breast feeding .
They only have a morning and a evening feed .
No night feeds .

It is FACT it is not NEEDED over night but WANTED and HABIT at that age

I don't know why some BFeeders seem to think they're some kind of opressed, persecuted minority. You're really not

Some Bfeeders have been. I was. I was physically and verbally assaulted when in public feeding my newborn baby. The verbal assaults have happened more than once. Now you know why some Breastfeeders talk of persecution. It happens. You can’t assume or generalise @NoYouDontHaveThat because you haven’t been.

@anxiousmumma12

The post you KEEP referring to didn't even mention the word "need", you did. Don't know why you keep going back to it.

"Oh, and I boobed my 2 year old to sleep earlier and he'll prob boob several times overnight as well."

The poster in question was just making a comment about feeding (boobing, whatever) her 2yr old. As someone else said, if the Mum is happy to provide that comfort to their child, why is it an issue? She may also recognise there's no nutritional need or that her child could probably survive without the comfort of being breastfed in the night. But you going on about "need" all the time is pathetic. Creating an argument where there isn't one.

This post left the realms of lighthearted a long time ago. You've made several nasty comments.

Thank you boofay

Nasty ?

To point out a child that age doesn't need feeding over night ?

Ok.

Oh wow look how quickly it turned into an anti extended BF chat. Do you realise the WHO state children should be BF for atleast 2 years?

The milk is nothing like a "pack of biscuits" its rich in nutrients, antibodies and is hugely comforting for babies/toddlers. My 2 year old still BF and yes shock horror sometimes also at night.

What a child actually "needs" is actually very small in terms of food, water a bed and company but do we as parents stop there? No, we do what we feel best to make them happy, safe, comfortable and loved beyond the actual "needs" of the child.

In answer to the actual thread I don't use terms like boob the baby, but can't see how anyone would get worked up about it and frankly it seems to bridge the divide between the largely different "types" of mums who might BF and normalises it.

I'm not keen on "boobing" as an expression but I bf all of mine well past the point they could talk so only used terms they could shout in a supermarket...

Used nursing a lot; for years all typos explained by NAK (nursing at keyboard - not sure I've see that one on here)

Do what you want at night but my 14 month old has slept 7-7 since 4 months. Rarely wakes up and my 4 year old who was bf was sleeping 8-6 from around 8 ish months . No bf in the night since .

At least two years yes .

The child is two now though .

It does not require bf over night .
Fact fact fact fact fact .
Whether you try to justify it or not .
It is fact

Also not worked about it i just find the term ridulcous and cringe like .

at least means at the minimum, beyond 2 years still carries huge benefits if mother and child want to continue.

Children have vastly different sleep habits regardless of how they are fed chances are your DC might have been good sleepers regardless. When my DC wakes up in the night yes they could have a cup of water but would that provide the same comfort, growth fats, infection fighting qualities? No.

It is not wrong to breastfeed a 2 yr old at night when they ask for it just because they don’t “need” it, or because other 2 yr olds regularly sleep all night without being breastfed at night.