If you were/are breastfeeding a toddler, what did you call it?

[theUrbanDryad]

ds is 13 months and starting to get the hang of words. we call breastmilk "boobie milk" or "boobie juice" (blame dh for that one) but a few weeks ago my LLL leader asked how i'd feel in Tesco in a year's time with him shouting "BOOOOBIE NOW MAMA!!"

he does sign for milk sometimes, but i'm wondering if there are any acceptable words i can use other than "milk", because i want to distinguish between cow's milk and breastmilk.

We call it milk and cow's milk is cow's milk. Ds usually just tugs at my top or sticks his hand down it.

'fraid DD (2.11) does ask for boobies, sometimes in a very loud voice in the supermarket I do find it preferable to her just trying to dive in there though!

dd used to ask for a feed as far as I remember

She just calls it Mik. (can't seem to say milk yet)
When she wants bf she says "mik, mik" & puts her head on one side as she knows she needs to lie down
If she wants it in a cup at lunchtime she goes to the fridge.

"milkies"

DS is 2.3. We call it milk. When we did signing, I used a different sign for my milk and for cows milk. Now he just says "want to drink mummy's milk". If I say, "but you've just had some" he then says "want to drink mummy's milk again" Although I have used the word boobs, he also refers to my breasts as "milk" as well. One day when twiddling my nipple, he said "turn mummy's milk with screwdriver" Luckily for me it was an imaginary screwdriver.

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Mine said 'milk' (or mick, meelt etc). They all call cow milk, 'cow milk' because apart from breast they also have soya milk, rice milk and goat milk.

My son (16 months) doesn't call it anything. He buries his head in my norks when he wants some.

DD called it boobie milk herself once she could talk - she heard it said by a 4 yr old who was still being BF.

DS called it 'mummymilk' as that what we chose to say.

"Milk from Mummy". The dds also call it "Milk from Mummy's nipples".

When dd2 was about 18 months old we had a yelling-in-Asda episode, when she repeatedly shouted "Milky nipples! Milky nipples!" Fortunately I don't think her speech was clear enough for many people to understand her.

DS (3.5) calls it boobie milk

we just say milk and say cows milk for that. She used to call breastmilk 'MulKk' well thats the best I can type it - it ended with a click

Sometimes if I'm not sure what she means I'll say did you want milk off mama or cows milk.

She occasionally calls it 'sides' when she's tired.

Chirpy, ds3 used to call it bee-boo as well!
Later he called it boo-boo. Recently I asked him if he remembered having the boo-boo and he turned around and kissed my nipple ( clothed, by the way!) He's 3 now and hasn't bf for 8 months.

DS calls it "feed", e.g. "Can I have a feed, please, Mummy?" (or, more accurately "May can I have a feed, please, Mummy?" as he hasn't quite mastered the may/can distinction yet so tends to stick both in ). This means he refers to my breasts as "feed" as well, and as some of his consonants aren't perfectly clearly enunciated it sounds as though he's calling them "feet", which is anatomically interesting.

My little brother used to call it "deep" from my Mum's right breast and "yoyoya" from her left breast. He also used to think the ad for Deep Fresh bubble bath was about breastfeeding!

Dd called it "nuck" when she was about 18 months, and progressed to mummy milk as her pronunciation got better. She stopped asking for bfs when we were out and about somewhere between 18months and 2yo.
Although she once asked me "I want you to feed me milk from your nipples, please mummy" which really discombobulated my MIL

DS2 calls it " gee". No idea why. Personally i find it very useful as no one else knows what is is talking about

he calls cows milk "milk". i don't think he sees any connection between the two

Boo-boo here (age 2), but she doesn't tend to ask for it in the supermarket any more!

If at home she'll tend to just jump on my lap in the right position and say 'I want it NOW'!

my ds calls it more!

Ds says num nums and pats my chest. Fortunatly this means that people think that he's saying mum mum and just patting me.

If he wants cow milk in a cup, then he'll sign for milk.

'milk' or 'milk from mama'

nikkie. dd took a long time to say 'milk' so nikkie just stuck.

now we call it 'nikkie nakka noo' sometimes due to 'Micca Macca Moo' from In The Night Garden.

Ds (nearly 3) says "milk"

If I ask, "would you like a cup of milk? (from the fridge)," he tends to say, "no I want milk from Mummy's breast."

It is factual and accurate so I am happy with that. If he says he wants milk in a cup I know he means cow's milk so we distinguish that way.

From around 10 months or so, my dd would 'peck' my shoulder whenever she wanted a feed, and she'd make an 'aba aba' noise whilst bouncing her face (lol that sounds weird, but that's what she does). I'd say 'do you want aba?' before a feed, and gradually, that became the word she used. She's 18mths now, and asks for 'aba' without the pecking, unless she really wants to emphasise the point!