Boobing

[helpwithhouse]

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?

Oh I'm all for encouraging bf user. I was a peer supporter for years. I remember googling the awards and my relative certainly wasn't the only person talking about it.

🤮

Bagging up is when the udder starts to fill before birth-in horses, sheep etc. usually indicates birth is within weeks.

But also in urban slang relates to the bagging of drugs for sale, would therefore not advocate it as a good turn of phrase to be shouting.....

I’ll stick with boobs.

Boobing is probably used by the same people who say “do you need your bum changed” to a small baby, and also talk about baby “wearing”. I’m glad my kids are older as all these twee ridiculous sayings are so irritating that I would struggle not to snap if I had a baby now!

It was bad enough when health professionals would say “and how is mum?” Or “how is baby doing today” and I would reply “THE baby is doing very well thank you”

I’m on a local breastfeeding support group on FB, and the whole golden / diamond / whatever boobies thing pops up a lot there.

No idea where it came from or if it’s some official thing, but it seems quite popular.

Woke up and come back on thread 😭🤣 bagging up is putting a condom on where I'm from lol

@Ozgirl75 they infuriate me... 'baby wearing' 'bum change' and all the other crap, having young children I do all of those things but I use a sling, feed the baby, change a nappy without the need for twee labels.

'Cloth bumming' as a verb

Cloth bumming . How can people get so obsessed with what goes in and comes out of a baby? 🤣. It’s an occupational hazard, not the meaning of life.

Drinking milk straight from the jug. Jugging, jugged, juggled the jugs.

Oh and they’re never just feeding a baby, it’s BLWing and talking about how their baby eats a full roast dinner at 7 months as if babies who aren’t weaned this way are still sucking down pouches at 27.

I did BLW in 1999 with DS1without knowing. It was called ‘chuck food on the high chair tray and let him get on with it’ back then though.

How can people get so obsessed with what goes in and comes out of a baby?
I'm in some cloth nappy groups, for every one who just happens to use cloth nappies for their baby, there's another who has all the lingo and collects the prints.

@LolaSmiles absolutely! I use cloth, but don’t evangelize about it, I EBF, bed share and own a baby carrier and wrap. We start BLW shortly. But they are not hobbies, they are just what I do. I give advice to people who ask, but it’s not the be all and end all.

My horse rug collection on the other hand..... But I find people that obsess over sleep training, clothes, hair, make up, perfume, shoes, kitchens etc fecking irritating. Takes all sorts!

I never heard anyone in real like call breastfeeding that. Maybe it's a British thing (I'm in Ireland) or maybe it's because my kids are older now so am just out of the loop. Cringey though, I agree

@Megan2018 guilty of the rug hoarding too! 🙋🏽‍♀️

DH and I use the word "boob" occasionally eg if DD is crying, he'll hand her over and say, "think she needs boob" but using boobing as a verb makes me shrivel a little inside.

I think the awards are twee but if it encourages some people to BF a little longer, good for them. We all know how hard it can be.

Horses I could get on board with...

If I had one, that is 😄

Ha, I do call it this to DH but only to him.

I have a mental picture of a largely endowed Miss Piggy going "Hiyahhhh" and not with her bag....

I just had to register to reply to the post (been lurking for a while) as it brought back cringing memories of my Mil who referred to breastfeeding as "boobing". She didn't breastfeed as the very thought of it made her "shudder" and whilst she always said that she thought it was great that I breastfed, she made several comments about people "sitting around boobing all day" or "you're not boobing again are you? " and "at least you get to sit and watch TV while you're boobing".
I look back and laugh now, but at the time I was silently screaming inside

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

@PorpentinaScamander I had a friend like this who treated breastfeeding as a competitive sport requiring trophies and public accolades once the “boober” reached certain milestones. She was really vicious about women who didn’t “boob” their kids until I called her out on it. She was shocked, presumably expecting me to follow her line of disgust about the “selfish/lazy” women who didn’t BF given I had “boobed” my child for three years.

Why do people give a shiny shite how other people feed their kids? Does anybody remotely intelligent think this way? I doubt it.

I can’t stop laughing at the thought of someone saying this with an utterly straight face