The verb 'to boob' makes me feel all kinds of terrible

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God I fucking hate this saying.

It sounds like the sort of thing that would be on Facebook

I've never heard it but I don't mix with new mothers and who the he'll says boob juice yuck
What's wrong with feeding the baby?

I hate it. I know one person who uses it in real life but she also says things like "bubba" "bubs", posts "brelfies" (breastfeeding selfies) and inspo quotes about what a great mother she is.

I say this all the time and I'm not sorry. Breastfeeding sounds silly and feeding sounds like you're trying to hide what kind of feeding it is.

It's feeding, from your breast. I think 'breastfeeding' is kinda perfect!

I use it all the time, it just kind of makes sense. Especially as for my baby breastfeeding is more than just feeding, it's also about comforting. Probably more about comforting than feeding actually.

I find this hatred towards the term to actually be pretty descriptive of the attitudes many in this country have about breastfeeding. Pretty sad.

The boob word sounds silly.

However, I'd never just I'd fed the baby in case someone thought I'd 😱 bottle fed.

So, I found it best to say: "I've poured a coupla jugs in".

just SAY

I thought you meant ‘to make a boob’ (fuck something up) but that’s not a verb is it?

Thanks @Howlovely but you do come across the BF mafia don't you? I've been told more than once 'if you'd really wanted to do it you could have'. Makes me sad and cross in equal measure. So for that reason I tend to think anyone who makes a big deal of BF is smug about it.

I know someone who says "boob to sleep" in RL. Major cringe every time. She's otherwise a relatively normal, fairly sensible woman!

My neighbour says it. Constantly. "Oops, gotta boob the bear", "So I boobed him to sleep", "Well, we were up boobing all night", "Lil bear loves his booby juice"

Yes. I do want to kill her. Frequently.

@Howlovely I didn’t once call you a bitch. I said I thought your examples over stepped the mark, I also told you it was the 6 week feeding post that I found it particularly unnecessary to criticise and went on to explain why.

I’m sorry if my finding your post offensive has offended you, but I stand by my criticism.

@MyGastIsFlabbered do I get to call BINGO for the first use of breastfeeding mafia?

Did you just accuse me of being a member of this?

Oh my word 😂

@snowbrigade but isn’t that what the verb “nursed” is for, if you don’t just want to say breastfed? I can’t stand “boobed” because it’s not a verb and it’s twee and and infantile and naff.

@MyGast yes you do, sadly. There appeared to be an ulterior motive among some of the breastfeeding groups I briefly joined. It was more about the statement of breastfeeding than the nourishment and feeding of your child. Personally I find the whole thing tedious. Does anybody actually care how other mums choose to feed their babies?

Boob monster is just vile

Especially as for my baby breastfeeding is more than just feeding, it's also about comforting.

And bottle feeding lacks that?

No axe to grind. I breastfed both of mine because I was basically too lazy to make up bottle feeds.
And, if they were crying, and it turned out it wasn't hunger, I'd not wasted a bottle.

Never have liked boob for breast (reminds me of those inflatable ones rugby players strap on) but have only just realised, due to reading this thread, that I loathe it in connection with feeding babies.

"I'll give him some boob" as opposed to "I'll give him a bottle".
Ooh. Guess who's breastfeeding.

Just feed him. Nobody cares how except you.

@maidenover i didn't direct any of my post at you so I don't know why you'd assume it was aimed at you.

But when I think back to when I was crippled by the most horrendous PND, my 5 day old gorgeous baby boy was hospitalised due to severe jaundice, dehydration and weight loss; watching him being fed by a nasogastric tube...being told 'if I'd really wanted to BF I could have' then yes I do get a bit riled by that. It wasn't just the once, it was numerous variations on a theme. There are some people who just cannot see past breastfeeding and think it trumps everything. And yes I will call them the BF mafia.

Sorry, I'm derailing a lighthearted thread, but 9 years later it still upsets me and I know it shouldn't.

There is a little place somewhere where people invent neologisms and this sounds to be a revolting example. We get it, you're mother nature, no-one has ever breast-fed their baby in the past, you're wonderful and special. Now move on.

I agree with you.

I think my issue is that all these boob/boobed/boobing/boob juice/boob monster phrases seem to have this silly twee feel to them.

Make the baby a bottle, cool.
Nurse the baby, cool.
Feed however you like but please avoid the twee crap that most people I know only ever seem to use when discussing their feeding choices on social media.

@maidenover, think this is getting a bit out of hand now. There was absolutely nothing in Gast's comments that were remotely aimed at you. I'm not sure what's going on with you at the moment but please stop having a go at random strangers on the internet for having an opinion. It's not all about you.

@Howlovely nothing is going on with me please stop making out that me criticising you means I have a problem.

@MyGastIsFlabbered sorry I misunderstood your post, I hate the way the phrase breastfeeding mafia is tossed about, but I’m sorry you had such a shit experience.

There's actually an entire thread running concurrent to this, about an OP who "genuinely" couldn't understand why some women might choose not to breast feed. And was apparently just canvassing opinions. For the 7000th time.

There were a number of people on that thread that thought that not breastfeeding was the worst thing you could do to your child. I believe formula was compared to McDonald's at one point, for its obvious junk food properties.

So yes. People do care a lot how others feed their baby for some reason. And many are very vocal about it.

Back to the main point of the thread - not a fan of boob to sleep! Much more a fan of bottling the baby

God this makes me cringe. There is a lady on my Facebook who constantly talks about her boob monster, and how he is booby milk drunk, etc etc. It's just ridiculous.

You wouldn't say you had bottled your baby to sleep would you?? So why say boob?

Yet again I feel like it's just another way they can give us the message I'M BREASTFEEDING HOW GREAT AM I !!! It just smacks of them thinking breastfeeding is sooo much better than a bottle.

And I'm far from being against breastfeeding btw - I wasn't able to because of a medical condition but would have loved to otherwise.