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

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God I fucking hate this saying.

Agreed, it’s horrendous! I fed my baby is quite adequate. You don’t say I spooned my baby when they start weaning.

Pyjamas - that really is hideous!

My boob acquaintance was, as someone described earlier, smug. I have a friend who very much wanted children but it didnt happen for her. We were all in my house having a coffee and a chat, a bit if support for friend when, out of the blue, The acquaintance sympathised saying "I dont know how empty my life would be if I didn't BF" then grabbed one of her passing kids and stuck her breast in his mouth then sort of smirked at us other. The child hadn't asked to feed, she tit hijacked him.
My friend was so upset.
Mind you this was only one of her very bizarre episodes.
This person was made unwelcome in my house from then on.
She was and is obsessed with BF. Very vocal about women who dont and doesn't to seem to realise theew is a choice, it isn't a competition and some women just cant.

Tit hijacked 😂😂

However, used as a verb like the examples given sounds utterly me, me, me look at me breastfeeding, I'm superior and my whole identity is wrapped up in the way I feed my child, and yes, if said Infront of women who couldn't (but would have liked to breastfeed) - insufferably smug!

Why does it sound smug though? I really don't see your point there? I have one FF one baby and BF another, I know all to well the struggles some women face. It's just an affectionate nickname for something we spend a lot of time doing in the early days.

Never heard it! Obviously I’m on the wrong threads!

Used by infantile women who can't say "breast". Probably the same ones who say "holibobs", "hun", and "hubby".

No one said the smugness applies to all women who BF. There are folk out there that are just deeply cringy a out it. I have found 1 person in particular to be obsessive and competitive about it and lacked any insight into the reasons why some women didnt or couldn't BF

I found this vaguely cringe before I had my baby, but now I've found myself slipping into it now and then when talking to my breastfeeding friends simply because it's quick and easy to say.

There's a few grammar snobs throwing around other examples of why the application of the word doesn't work, but isn't language evolving all the time? Isn't that how language develops? People need to get off their high horse I think.

For those who think it's only the mothers who are desperate to shout about breastfeeding who uses the term, again that's just a bit snobby. Most people I know who breastfeed don't particularly feel the need to point out how they feed their baby, doesn't mean they won't use the word boobing. It's used a lot in breastfeeding support groups and literature so it's bound to get picked up.

In summary, let's all calm down and stop looking down our noses at other people!

I hate the term" we are pregnant" . However involved a father to be may be he will never be pregnant unless medical science moves on!

No one said the smugness applies to all women who BF. There are folk out there that are just deeply cringy a out it
I agree.
It's a certain type of person who uses it a lot.

Ultimately for all some say 'we mustn't judge or be irritated by anything', we do because we're human.

she tit hijacked him

Brilliant.

I've used this phrase. Quite a bit. Mostly in a jokey fashion. I've only really heard it used that way. Totally understand it's not 'proper grammar' but I don't think sticking to Queen's English is necessary in all contexts. Each to there own. There are many phrases that rub me up the wrong way. So I'm not phased by it bothering others.

(My own current pet hate is 'living your best Life')

*their. Ergh. I really wish you could edit comments on MN. Fat fingers and autocorrect are a liability for me.

i have never heard this before.

But no I don’t like it either!

I have no problem with the baby wanting a boob or giving the baby a boob but I dislike the use of a noun as a verb.

I also hate when people say I ‘gave him/her a breast feed’, sounds ridiculously formal.

As always, middle ground between moron and an elderly Puritan is where I stand.

Booby juice?! GoodGod!

WILL judge anyone who uses this phrase.

But why can't you say "X needs feeding" or "Excuse me - I must feed X".

The "boob" is just stuck there to indicate the method. No one says, "I must bottle feed X".

Haven't rtft

I hate the phrase. I'm a breastfeeder, I've only ever "fed" my babies, same as my husband/mother/childminder have done in my absence.

Breastfeeding sounds silly and feeding sounds like you're trying to hide what kind of feeding it is
It doesn't matter what kind of feeding it is.

Breastfeeding is hard work
Bottlefeeding is hard work
Having a baby is hard work

I'm so saddened to read posts from mums who say they have "failed" at breastfeeding. You haven't failed. No doubt you gave everything you had to give to it.

Its probably overrated anyway. I know there's hundreds and hundreds of studies that show the benefits, but how many of them examine maternal mental health...

Repulsed that I'm using said boobs for the reason they were intended?

Goodness, can you really not tell the difference between people hating a particular expression and people hating the thing that expression refers to? I wouldn’t have thought it would be difficult to see how those aren’t the same but perhaps I am wrong.

Also ‘booby juice’ is especially revolting and makes me think of pus not milk, so I don’t want that image remotely connected to babies thank you very much

Some people just like to be offended. What happened to live and let live? There are lots of phrases I hate such as hubby, obvs, famalam, holibobs, to name a few, but it wouldn't cross my mind to start a thread about it, or moan publicly! Much worse things to get worked up about.

It’s embarrassing and cringey. I know people that say it in real life

The "boob" is just stuck there to indicate the method. No one says, "I must bottle feed X

I must give the baby her bottle is a pretty usual thing to say though.

It's grim. To be honest though - I have always hated the word boob.

They are breasts

We are all adults and we shouldn't have to use infantile language to describe our body parts.