Boobing

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Argh!!
In my sleep deprived state I'm going to explode soon. Help!!
My DD is a year old and still breastfeeds a lot, including overnight. Has never taken bottle so it's always just me.

I have a friend who is in the same boat so we are in contact a fair amount, basically giving each other tips, reassurance etc.

But she ALWAYS refers to breastfeeding as "boobing". I dont mind the word boob, but its constant.

"He boobs to sleep then he wakes up so I boob him to sleep again. When we cosleep he boobs all night. I try to boob him less during the day but he just wants boob"

She is the loveliest person in the world, but honestly I'm going to scream.

AIBU?

Cringe!! I breastfed both of mine (1.5 yrs & 3.5 yrs old) until they were well over a year and thankfully I've never heard this expression before. What's wrong with just saying feeding? "I'm feeding him. I fed him all night. He just want to feed all the time" etc. I mean you know she is breast feeding does it need to be said all the god damn time? Do bottle feeders say "I bottled him. When we co-sleep it's just bottling all night long"? No! 🙄

I have, thankfully, never heard of boobing before this thread. Everyone I know is normal just says fed/feed regardless of method.

That made me laugh!

Urgh she’ll stop when her wee one shouts for boobie in the supermarket

I doubt it

Wow! Didnt expect so many replies.
Apologies for the lack of replying...baby has been titting again.

You just ruined my day.

It’s not a term I like.

I always called it milky to my breastfed DC. Generally just talked about feeds / fed to other people.

I’m very glad of that now, as DS3 is 3, able to talk and still breastfeeding. If he’s asking to breastfeed he’s saying “I want milky“ or similar, so no worries about him yelling about boobies when we’re out and about

Somehow it was better on Blackadder:

Will you have moo-cow milk or Nursey milk?

Left breasty-dumpling or right breasty-dumpling?

'Course, it was always both breasty-dumplings!

I hate boobing as a verb. I boobed my baby to sleep, baby isn’t feeling well so I’m boobing them.

You’re just feeding, no one cares. Why the continual need to point out you’re breastfeeding.

I’m reliably informed that when sheep lactate it’s referred to as ‘bagging up’ - an alternative? I’ll get me coat.....

@PureAlchemy, 'milky' is just as nauseating as 'boobing' etc 🤢🤮

I used to say feeding if I was feeding him- providing actual nutrition. I'd use boobing if I was literally try to knock him out by virtue of the boob. He might have been feeding he might not- I could never tell the difference but I'd not kid myself and say I was feeding him. He wasn't hungry I just knew he'd sleep. I did feel I was clobbering him to submission so boobing was more appropriate then feeding.

Wtf, Nameless?!

@Dipi79 but less embarrassing if a small child is shouting for a breastfeed in public!

Also when talking about breastfeeding to people who aren’t my DC I usually just say feeding or fed.

My relative used to talk about boobing. Her and her friends also seemed to have some kind of reward system where they 'earned' gold boobies, silver boobies, diamond boobies etc based on how long they had fed for. Bloody twee shite.

I did used to describe dc as milk drunk though. It was the perfect way to describe the state they were in.

No offence, Porpentina, but they sound like simpletons, bestowing Golden Boobies awards on each other . Pitiful.

Hate this so much. I breastfeed and am a huge advocate. But "boobing" makes me cringe. Use the proper terms ffs!

'Her and her friends also seemed to have some kind of reward system where they 'earned' gold boobies, silver boobies, diamond boobies etc based on how long they had fed for. Bloody twee shite.'

While still cringeworthy @PorpentinaScamander the gold/diamond award things are part of a peer support organisation locally (not sure if this is where it originated or not). It's designed to encourage and support breastfeeding in an area of really low uptake. No idea whether it works and I'm pretty sure there's no actual award, but it gives people something to feel proud about when most of their peers can't relate to the specific difficulties of breastfeeding. It's not for me personally, however

None taken @Thisismytimetoshine I avoid her as much as possible . Although she stopped talking about it quite so much in front of me when I mentioned I'd breastfed dc2 for 3 years. She didn't realise as I rarely mentioned it.

The only good thing about this is that it shows that breastfeeding is now de rigueur amongst the lower classes. And more people breastfeeding has got to be a good thing, right?

Still cringeworthy, though.

Oh dear God, it’s official? . The Order of the Golden Boobies is an actual thing. What a world 😂

@Craftycorvid

I'll be trying that one out tomorrow "sorry DH, can't answer the door I'm just bagging up",