To find the term 'birthing' a bit bleugh?

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

Maybe that's why it sometimes seems there's a whole giant mothers' club which I'm not part of....

I mean a club which is giant, not that the mothers themselves are giants!

Yes! "What are you up to these days?" "Me? Oh I'm still parenting"...

I have to readjust from 'berthing'
For a nano second I think of heavily pregnant women slowly reversing into a cabin.

F&T - I love your name, I remeber reading that book at primary school. I've mentioned it to other people and they've always given me a blank look!

ILiketo - yes I don't think too many people know the book do they. Stuck in my mind cos my (older, slimmer) sister was of course the thinnifer and I was obviously the fattipuff. Sigh. Can you remember the book well? Am I right that the Fs went into one land and the Ts into another??

Fabio - for some reason 'birthing' makes me think of big udder-swinging cows.

Would like to nominate some other irritating verbs-from-nouns:

Labouring

What's the matter with "in labour"?

Toileting

"Does he/she have any problems with toileting?" What's the matter with "using the toilet."

Ick. Almost worse than "do toilet". Well, better get back to parenting.

just makes me think of foghorns and roaring engines on a ferry

I remember the F's and the T's! And I too hate the word 'birthing'. It is gross, like off 'All Creatures Great & Small', and puts me in mind of glistening placentas, lowing sounds and the gunk that babies are covered with. Yes yes, I know that sounds uptight, but erm...

Birthing schmirthing I say!
And long live the thinnifers!

I prefer "whelping"