what do your older babies call breastfeeding?

My girls are 20 months old and when they want to nurse, they say "night night"!

 

Mine never called it anything. They had/have speech issues though. My dh's cousin's toddler calls it "tata" I think.

 

That's cute! :wub:

Mine say "Nur." DD has just started pronouncing it more clearly, so she actually says "Nurse." And lately when she finishes she'll look at my boob and say, "Nipple. Hello!" :lol:

 

My DS never called it anything. My niece calls it "num-nums"

 

My sister called my mom's "sides" because my mom would say "switch sides?"

 

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And lately when she finishes she'll look at my boob and say, "Nipple. Hello!" :lol:

omg, that is SOOO cute!

mine don't speak yet, but my godkids used to always call is "chum," so that's what dh and i call it. i guess i'll have to find out why, since that's what my kids will probably call it.

~~jl

 

My older DS (who bf until 29 mos) called it Boppy. Obviously, from the Boppy Pillow that we used, which he just loved. It was really adorable. He started calling it "Baa-ee" and eventually it became a nice, clear "Boppy".

I'm pumping for my twin boys b/c of their latch issues - but I would have loved to get to the point bfing them that they would have a name for it. There's not much sweeter!

 

Andrew and Catherine say that Elizabeth is "eating the boobie". Elizabeth calls it "boo" :wub:

 

I just call it "milk" and my boys are more receptive than expressive about it. They know what the word means, but don't really say or sign it. However, Jacob has recently taken to begging for "good, good!" when he is asking to nurse. Too funny!

 

Pillow time or pillow.

 

My two, who are growing up bilingual, began by using the Hebrew word for breast "tsi tsi" (they were taught this by their baby sitter). But it was a tad embarrassing when we went home for a visit to England and my girls apparently yelled 'titties' several times a day - given the clarity of toddler speech :blush: . So I encouraged them to say something a bit more discrete: num nums :wub: .

 

Mine would say they wanted Mommy Milk :wub:

 

My older kids signed milk when they wanted to nurse. Even after they started drinking cow's milk they would sign for nursing and say milk for a cup. Now my 4 yo signs or says milk for her cup. My 2 year old has dropped the sign for milk from his vocabulary, but maybe he'll pick it up again later like his sister. He only gave up nursing 2ish months ago. The sign seemed less noticeable to others since we nursed longer than a year for both and some of the people around me thought that was horrible.

 

"Milkies" .. as in "I want a little Milkies, Mommy". Or "I want That Milkies' pointing to one or the other. If I try to divert.. 'Ok, I'll get you milk in a cup'. 'NO, I want Mommy's Milkies'

Just before I said to my son. 'Your purple cup of Milk is over on the table'.. His response - 'No, I want the white Milkies!' pointing at my breast

 

Our guys call it " Bee Bee" If I had a dollar for every time I heard "Bee Bee" in a day I'd have enough money to take all the TS mommies on an awesome vacation!

 

One of mine called it 'sleep' because at the time he was only nursing to sleep.

Another called it 'nana'.

I like this thread!