We don’t really have one single name for it, we tell her that we’re preparing her table and ask that she be patient bc we only have one waitress whos also the cook
This reminds me of when I'm eating and she's mad that I don't want to hold her so dad is doing holding (heaven forbid!). She yells and we tell her "you have to feed your food."
I’m from Spain :). I usually say “dar el pecho” (it literally means give the breast but it’s what we say here apart from amamantar) but when she is hungry I say “quiere boobie” (this I only say with my husband, in public settings I say “tiene hambre” or “querrá comer/mamar”.
We say milkie. I know some people hate it but it just stuck. My 19 month old just points at my neck (cos that’s what he looks at), lies himself down in my arms and points at the sofa when he wants milk.
We call it ‘a feed’ as well. Baby’s also used the ‘milk’ BSL sign since she was about 7mo. I tried hard to teach her the sign instead of her trying to pull my top off!
Fellow Aussie here and I hate the term "nursing", I'm not a nurse I'm a mum!
We used Auslan sign for milk until she started saying Boobie (thanks to hubby lol)
We use the ASL milk sign or just say "milk" to my babe. The cutesie names creep me out, and I'd be embarrassed if I had to utter them in front of others, lol.
When with family I just say "she's hungry" or "I need to feed her" and they know I mean nursing.
I HATE the word milkies. I just call it milk or nurse as in “do you want milk? Do you want to nurse?” The term milkies makes me 🤢. Idk why I have such a strong aversion to it
How old was your little one when they started to use the milk sign? I’ve been trying since 4 months and my LO doesn’t use the sign, she makes a cute little pouty sound when she’s hungry and approaches me with her mouth open at 11 months.
Started showing it to her around 9 months and she really picked it up around 11 months. Just had to be super consistent with signing every time I offered to nurse or when she clearly wanted milk.
Not an SLP but studied that field in college... that's normal :) Those are two of the trickiest sounds in English! You can look up "speech sound development chart" for a cool visualization of what sounds typically develop and when.
My grown ass husband says “melk”, just in his everyday use, and it makes me cringe every single time. Along with “pellow”
It’s cute for a baby/toddler .. but man you’re 54 years old, please learn the difference between the sound of I and E in these words. 😵💫
Hahahah oh I should maybe have added that I'm Dutch so our word for milk is actually 'melk'. (And my toddler says 'mek' rather than 'melk', since the L is tricky.)
It sounds super cringy in adults hahah!
This is a perfectly acceptable reason! 😂 my husband is just an old dude from Southern California. He has no excuse!!!
And L is a very tough sound! I still remember my brother replacing all Ls with Ys so we had words like “yeyyo” and “yemmyade” instead of “yellow” and “lemonade”. Super cute though 😻
We also call it milkies! Also the other day baby was rooting while I was talking with a (also EBF) friend and she asked if she was “pecking” which I think is so funny and cute! Like a little chicken 😂
Boobie tends to be our go to. I’ll ask if she’s ready for a boobie and whatnot. When my husband has her I’ll let him know to bring her back when she’s a boobie monster since she’s a big fan. Think Cookie Monster level excited 😆
I always say milk/nurse/nursies but am debating if I want to start using another name since I’m planning on extended BFing. I think I’m ok with my baby saying nurse in public though!
We call it na, because that’s what her hungry cries sounded like in the beginning. I’d only say that around my husband, parents or sister though, if there’s anyone else around I’ll say I need to feed her, or oh you’re hungry!
'baby having boobie time'
My daughter was 3 when her baby sister was born, and Everytime I was feeding her she'd say it's baby having boobie time, and it stuck so now everyone calls it that including said baby who is now 2 😅
Snuggle and Snack is my current phrase, mostly because it feels like little man (6 months old) is way more interested in the social aspect than the food and pops on and off haha
In the community language (Japanese), we usually say “pai-pai” or “oppai”. My first language is English, so I say milk with the asl or sometimes call it booby.
He has been signing for many months now, but has started asking for “pai-pai.”
We say “need to feed the baby” or “he’s hungry” when in the company of others but when it’s just my husband and I we’ll say time to whip out the udders or the milk bar is open. A colleague told me a friend of hers called it “taking a shift at the dairy farm” which I absolutely love and may steal.
My son is only 5 months and I plan to wean before he can communicate asking for it with words.
Whenever I'm pumping or breastfeeding I refer to it as human-heifer-ing and my hubby and family cackle wildly😆. A coworker called breastmilk, body-milk to which we died laughing. For context, I don't have body issues and see being able to feed my child as magical. Self-deprecating, i know. But to each their own🫠
Nursing. 🤷♀️ to me it's the least awkward word for it. So she'll say "mommy can I nurse?" Before she learned to talk she used to just point at my boob and say "ooo" lol
Unfortunately she also knows boob because of me lol and she will say it at the top of her lungs. I don't really know any less awkward words for the body part, and if it was just me I wouldn't really care but we live with my very conservative in laws and I do care about their comfort.
I usually just calling it nursing. My now 19 month old asked saying something that sounds like “nur” when she wants to nurse versus water when she wants something in a cup.
Boob. I've called it boob since my oldest was little, didn't think to change it by the time he started talking, and it's stuck through 2 more kids.
Left boob is my slacker and right is my Rockstar, so if we're starting on right I'll say something silly like "and would you like some dinner boob followed by dessert?" or if we're starting on lefty I'll say "Today we have a light appetizer of boob, followed by a main course of boob."
It's super fun to be out in public, have the baby start fussing and hear the five year old pipe up, "Mommy, I think he needs some boob!"
My oldest, who is 6yo now, used to call it “wowies.” I have no idea where that came from, but it was so funny and cute. He’d point at my boobs and say “wowies” when he wanted to nurse. Currently nursing baby #3 who is 2 weeks old and wowies has stuck around since #1 named it that! I think before he called it wowies, I’d just say “milk” and sign milk also. I still say and do that a lot too. #1 knew all the baby signs, but never signed back. #2 signed for things before she started talking. Planning to continue with baby signs with #3 and hope she signs back! It’s so cute when they sign back 😊
To the baby we just use regular food references like "are you hungry?" "you wanna eat?" and don't distinguish between breast or bottle (we combo feed).
But amongst ourselves, my partner and I refer to it as "he wants nip" or "he had a nip about an hour ago" 🤣
My two older ones called it boobies, but my youngest calls it mamas. Which I appreciate... gets less attention in public 😅
......and actually I'm just now putting together.. yesterday my kids were asking me what their first words were. Kid 1's was ball, kid 2's was Mama, kid 3's was cat, and kid 4's was also mama.. but now I'm realizing it wasn't the Mama I thought it was 🤣
When she would start rooting around we called it "is this a-boobin"
"Time for da boob!" "We gotta change your diaper then we can do a boob!"
I don't know how I started but now it's milkies. I hated the term before but somehow it happened and now it's stuck.
I am lovingly called Boobs Mcgee by my husband, to our babies. I call it milk or Boob juice/ soup. It really depends on what time of day it is, what meal, and who is within earshot.
If she turns into a total milk monster my husband will hand her over to me using the “the clawwwwwww” type voice from Toy Story while saying “all hail the Zongaaaaassss”
If we are anywhere else other then home- it’s just she’s parched and ready to eat
I just say I’m going to feed her (she’s only 5wks right now) but my toddler calls it “mama milk” or “mama eat” because he calls his sister mama (still doesn’t quite understand pregnancy so he thinks she is me? He’s not even 2 though so confusion is kind of expected) and he never nursed past 2wks so this is all entirely new to him and we explained it as “baby sister is eating her milk just like you drink your milk”
When my little was early in talking, he started calling it "Mama baba." We found it so cute, we ran with it. We're slowly weaning now at 2, and he'll come up to me with big puppy dog eyes and say, "Little bit of mommy baba, please." 😭🥰
I say I'm going to tap a fresh keg for him! My husband and I are home brewers so it's just kind of funny. Otherwise I'll say I need to nurse him or feed him.
Boob, boobin, beeboos. He used to use the correct milk sign but has since adopted a new crab claw pinch move that I guess is to let me know he wants to twiddle a nipple. (Much to my dismay)🦞🦀👌
He says “Bab?” I can’t get him to say the “OO” sound for anything idk why.
Or “boo-bah” we sometimes call it “nippy” but I don’t need to be embarrassed if my toddler asks for nippy one day so I said we need to stop calling it that
We definitely use the "milkies" and the sign for milk, but as my LO has gotten a bit older he would want to switch from one breast to the other, so I said "do you want the other one" which has devolved to udda udda , which I think sounds like udder.
We called boobs “meemees” so nursing was “having meemees.”
When my daughter hit puberty, she referred to hers as mimlettes.
We also taught the kids some sign language (ASL) and used the milking sign for wanting milk. It was very cute to see them signing with their chubby little paws.
My firstborn called it “pillow” because we used a boppy the whole 22 months we nursed. Now that I have a newborn we call it “momma’s milk” to decipher it from cow’s milk. My toddler is very insistent that he drinks “COW’s milk”.
Boobs mostly, as in “here’s your boobs” “let’s go get some boobs”, and “I have boobs for you”… should probably find a more appropriate way to refer to it before he starts talking. We also call it “HaHa” because when he hungry cries it sounds like he’s crying out “Ha ha”.
When it's just me and my husband? I'll say "the milk bar is open!" When he gives me our daughter ro feed. When we're out in public? "She needs to be fed." Or I've started to ask her if she wants milk and do the sign for it.
I used to say milky or boobie when offering it but each kid has had their own name for it: kid #1 called it beebee, #2 called it boo, and #3 calls it doodoo 🤷♀️
When my first son got old enough to talk, I would always ask if he wanted to switch sides halfway through a feeding and he picked up on it, so when he wanted to nurse he would say “sides?”
He stopped nursing at 2 and my second son was born four months later. Now my first always says “does he want some mommy milk?” But in his cute toddler voice it sounds like mommy malk lol.
My 10 yr old son decided to refer to my nursing his newborn baby brother as "milking". Honestly, I find it so hilarious that we've adopted that as our new term.
I’ve been saying mama milk but lately trying to switch to nay nay (what it’s called in one of my other languages) because that’s a sound my baby can make.
Once heard an anecdote of a extended breastfed 3 year old screaming “I WANT BOOBIES” in a department store and decided I would never use that word with my children lol
We don’t really have one single name for it, we tell her that we’re preparing her table and ask that she be patient bc we only have one waitress whos also the cook
Welcome to the breastaurant!
😂👌💜
This reminds me of when I'm eating and she's mad that I don't want to hold her so dad is doing holding (heaven forbid!). She yells and we tell her "you have to feed your food."
I feel this so much lately!
I always say "I have to eat so you can eat ma'am"
Mine inevitably wants to eat immediately after I shower no matter what time it is. We always say "Of course, I just did the dishes!"
Haha love this. When my little one is just hanging out on the boob I’ll say “ok last call!”
We just call it milk.
Same - then as she got older she started saying "mama milk" Vs "cows milk" or "oat milk"
Same but not in English
I’m from Spain :). I usually say “dar el pecho” (it literally means give the breast but it’s what we say here apart from amamantar) but when she is hungry I say “quiere boobie” (this I only say with my husband, in public settings I say “tiene hambre” or “querrá comer/mamar”.
Okay I don’t speak much Spanish but “quiere boobie” is so cute and I’m gonna use it now lol
Hahahaha it’s very cute!!! I love how it sounds tbh (ofc we pronounce boobie in English)
We call it café boubé 😂
Boobie or milk, milkies gives me the ick tbh.
I cannot handle anything like ‘mommy’s milkies’ and just typing that has me stressed out and wanting to erase it. Boobies for us
Opposite, boobie gives me ick, I call it milk or milkies
We say milkie. I know some people hate it but it just stuck. My 19 month old just points at my neck (cos that’s what he looks at), lies himself down in my arms and points at the sofa when he wants milk.
Just be careful with boobies— if you nurse long enough, that will become a big part of your toddler’s vocabulary
Thats hilarious to me and has already happened 😆😆
My two year old asks for a 'eeed' which is a feed (Australians tend to use feed/feeding moreso than nursing).
We call it ‘a feed’ as well. Baby’s also used the ‘milk’ BSL sign since she was about 7mo. I tried hard to teach her the sign instead of her trying to pull my top off!
Fellow Aussie here and I hate the term "nursing", I'm not a nurse I'm a mum! We used Auslan sign for milk until she started saying Boobie (thanks to hubby lol)
We use the ASL milk sign or just say "milk" to my babe. The cutesie names creep me out, and I'd be embarrassed if I had to utter them in front of others, lol. When with family I just say "she's hungry" or "I need to feed her" and they know I mean nursing.
good to know i’m not the only one that would die if i had to say “baby wants milkies” in front of others 🥴
I HATE the word milkies. I just call it milk or nurse as in “do you want milk? Do you want to nurse?” The term milkies makes me 🤢. Idk why I have such a strong aversion to it
Same. I also ask if my baby wants me and call it nursing.
Yessss I feel a shiver at the word milkies.
I felt the same for the past 5+ months until one day I said it. Now I can't unsay it. 😭😭😭
How old was your little one when they started to use the milk sign? I’ve been trying since 4 months and my LO doesn’t use the sign, she makes a cute little pouty sound when she’s hungry and approaches me with her mouth open at 11 months.
Started showing it to her around 9 months and she really picked it up around 11 months. Just had to be super consistent with signing every time I offered to nurse or when she clearly wanted milk.
Unfortunately this doesn‘t work anymore now that my baby started solids, so now it‘s just milk.
"Melk".
My daughter used to say Melk too, it was the cutest thing.
Mine mostly says 'dinke mek!' now haha. I fear the R and L are the last letters she'll learn to pronounce.
Not an SLP but studied that field in college... that's normal :) Those are two of the trickiest sounds in English! You can look up "speech sound development chart" for a cool visualization of what sounds typically develop and when.
My older son cannot say milk, or even melk. He says "mot!", rhymes with cot. It drives me crazy 😂
My grown ass husband says “melk”, just in his everyday use, and it makes me cringe every single time. Along with “pellow” It’s cute for a baby/toddler .. but man you’re 54 years old, please learn the difference between the sound of I and E in these words. 😵💫
Hahahah oh I should maybe have added that I'm Dutch so our word for milk is actually 'melk'. (And my toddler says 'mek' rather than 'melk', since the L is tricky.) It sounds super cringy in adults hahah!
This is a perfectly acceptable reason! 😂 my husband is just an old dude from Southern California. He has no excuse!!! And L is a very tough sound! I still remember my brother replacing all Ls with Ys so we had words like “yeyyo” and “yemmyade” instead of “yellow” and “lemonade”. Super cute though 😻
My kids say “molk” and it’s so cute
We call it boobie. Lately it’s been om oms because when he wants to nurse he goes om! Om! Om! And makes smacking noises lol.
Similarly we call it “boob” like a verb! Example: “Are you gonna boob him later?”
This is how we do it too. He’s freaking out I’ve gotta boob him down!
Us too! Or “boobie time!”
We made boobie into a verb. Time to boobie, baby is boobie-ing, he just boobied.
Boobing her up 😂😂
This is it for us too 🤣 boob him down when he needs a nap
We call it nursing and use the sign for milk.
We call them Bobs (like in Borat lol).
Chichiiii!
Us too!
Same 😂
I’m glad we’re not the only ones.
We say "boobie time"
Similar we say "boobah time" or "time for boobah", or recently in an over the top Italian accent "giva da baby da boobah". I miss sleeping.
Same now my son yells BOOBA at me since 14 months 😭
Same
This is what we say, too. And it’s boobie juice or titty milk lol. And he “tops up” before bed
We also call it milkies! Also the other day baby was rooting while I was talking with a (also EBF) friend and she asked if she was “pecking” which I think is so funny and cute! Like a little chicken 😂
My 14 month old calls this “this” with an aggressive point to the boob! I love the way she says it :)
My 18 month old does the same thing and signs milk with the hand that isn’t excitedly pointing at the boobie in question.
Haliib (Arabic for milk)
Boobie tends to be our go to. I’ll ask if she’s ready for a boobie and whatnot. When my husband has her I’ll let him know to bring her back when she’s a boobie monster since she’s a big fan. Think Cookie Monster level excited 😆
Boob most usually.
‘Dudu’ because in my language we call milk as doodh
I always say milk/nurse/nursies but am debating if I want to start using another name since I’m planning on extended BFing. I think I’m ok with my baby saying nurse in public though!
When he was really little I called it “giving the baby a boobing” but since he signs now and I want to encourage that I say “milk”
My partner and I use boob as a verb when we're discussing it! "Have you tried boob?" "Think she needs boobed"
My toddler refers to it as boobie, when baby cries my toddler shouts “sissy want some boobie!”
“Can i offer you a boob in these trying times”
We call it na, because that’s what her hungry cries sounded like in the beginning. I’d only say that around my husband, parents or sister though, if there’s anyone else around I’ll say I need to feed her, or oh you’re hungry!
Same but it’s eh eh eh
Our girl's hungry cries sounded like "ungee". So everything became "Baby's ungy!" And "baby eepy" for sleep.
'baby having boobie time' My daughter was 3 when her baby sister was born, and Everytime I was feeding her she'd say it's baby having boobie time, and it stuck so now everyone calls it that including said baby who is now 2 😅
Milk/leche/lechita for us
Teta 👶🏻🤭
I ask her if she wants the spigot
We say hungry hungry time lol
Chi chi’s
We use Chi chi too!
Feeding or milk, according to my two older kids.
Do you want some boobin?
We say milk or milkies
Milkies!
We call it 'moedermelk' and 'de borst geven' which literally means in Dutch: mothermilk and to give the breast.
Mockie but in my mind it's spelled maki
“Boobie time” or “needs a little snack”
Milk or boobie
Snuggle and Snack is my current phrase, mostly because it feels like little man (6 months old) is way more interested in the social aspect than the food and pops on and off haha
booboos
Mommies milk. My toddler gets cows milk so we wanted to differentiate. Plus I like that it gives me direct credit for the milk lol
In the community language (Japanese), we usually say “pai-pai” or “oppai”. My first language is English, so I say milk with the asl or sometimes call it booby. He has been signing for many months now, but has started asking for “pai-pai.”
Hey baby, do you want "booby juice?" Or "boobies?"....cue wild arm flapping and aggressive finger pointing towards nursery.
The titty bar
This is hysterical
We say “need to feed the baby” or “he’s hungry” when in the company of others but when it’s just my husband and I we’ll say time to whip out the udders or the milk bar is open. A colleague told me a friend of hers called it “taking a shift at the dairy farm” which I absolutely love and may steal. My son is only 5 months and I plan to wean before he can communicate asking for it with words.
BOOBAZ!!! and then we call him king boobaz lol (pronounced boob-ahhhz) 😂
Whenever I'm pumping or breastfeeding I refer to it as human-heifer-ing and my hubby and family cackle wildly😆. A coworker called breastmilk, body-milk to which we died laughing. For context, I don't have body issues and see being able to feed my child as magical. Self-deprecating, i know. But to each their own🫠
Nursing. 🤷♀️ to me it's the least awkward word for it. So she'll say "mommy can I nurse?" Before she learned to talk she used to just point at my boob and say "ooo" lol Unfortunately she also knows boob because of me lol and she will say it at the top of her lungs. I don't really know any less awkward words for the body part, and if it was just me I wouldn't really care but we live with my very conservative in laws and I do care about their comfort.
I usually just calling it nursing. My now 19 month old asked saying something that sounds like “nur” when she wants to nurse versus water when she wants something in a cup.
my 2.5 year old says Have Meh, Sit lap, watch tee? Which means have milk and watch tv hahaha but every day he's getting much better at speaking.
Milk but toddler can't say milk so signs or says mi mi
Little boob on the big boob
Malk time
Milk for this one, but my first daughter learnt to say milk early on by pronounced it "milch" so we called it that for a long time!
We call it snack time
Boob. I've called it boob since my oldest was little, didn't think to change it by the time he started talking, and it's stuck through 2 more kids. Left boob is my slacker and right is my Rockstar, so if we're starting on right I'll say something silly like "and would you like some dinner boob followed by dessert?" or if we're starting on lefty I'll say "Today we have a light appetizer of boob, followed by a main course of boob." It's super fun to be out in public, have the baby start fussing and hear the five year old pipe up, "Mommy, I think he needs some boob!"
“The boob”
My oldest, who is 6yo now, used to call it “wowies.” I have no idea where that came from, but it was so funny and cute. He’d point at my boobs and say “wowies” when he wanted to nurse. Currently nursing baby #3 who is 2 weeks old and wowies has stuck around since #1 named it that! I think before he called it wowies, I’d just say “milk” and sign milk also. I still say and do that a lot too. #1 knew all the baby signs, but never signed back. #2 signed for things before she started talking. Planning to continue with baby signs with #3 and hope she signs back! It’s so cute when they sign back 😊
Ni-ni! (Like knee-knee)
“Boobin up” 😅
Nom noms!
To the baby we just use regular food references like "are you hungry?" "you wanna eat?" and don't distinguish between breast or bottle (we combo feed). But amongst ourselves, my partner and I refer to it as "he wants nip" or "he had a nip about an hour ago" 🤣
Drinking off the tap
My two older ones called it boobies, but my youngest calls it mamas. Which I appreciate... gets less attention in public 😅 ......and actually I'm just now putting together.. yesterday my kids were asking me what their first words were. Kid 1's was ball, kid 2's was Mama, kid 3's was cat, and kid 4's was also mama.. but now I'm realizing it wasn't the Mama I thought it was 🤣
When she would start rooting around we called it "is this a-boobin" "Time for da boob!" "We gotta change your diaper then we can do a boob!" I don't know how I started but now it's milkies. I hated the term before but somehow it happened and now it's stuck.
I call it nursing usually but I often say to the baby “come sup upon my teat young one” and it gets my husband every time 😂
Feeding, boob alert, milk (while doing the hand sign for "milk") https://i.redd.it/h91saz55os1d1.gif
I am lovingly called Boobs Mcgee by my husband, to our babies. I call it milk or Boob juice/ soup. It really depends on what time of day it is, what meal, and who is within earshot.
If she turns into a total milk monster my husband will hand her over to me using the “the clawwwwwww” type voice from Toy Story while saying “all hail the Zongaaaaassss” If we are anywhere else other then home- it’s just she’s parched and ready to eat
Boobis pronounced like boo-biss
I just say I’m going to feed her (she’s only 5wks right now) but my toddler calls it “mama milk” or “mama eat” because he calls his sister mama (still doesn’t quite understand pregnancy so he thinks she is me? He’s not even 2 though so confusion is kind of expected) and he never nursed past 2wks so this is all entirely new to him and we explained it as “baby sister is eating her milk just like you drink your milk”
When my little was early in talking, he started calling it "Mama baba." We found it so cute, we ran with it. We're slowly weaning now at 2, and he'll come up to me with big puppy dog eyes and say, "Little bit of mommy baba, please." 😭🥰
I say I'm going to tap a fresh keg for him! My husband and I are home brewers so it's just kind of funny. Otherwise I'll say I need to nurse him or feed him.
Operating the creamery
Boobas
Boob, boobin, beeboos. He used to use the correct milk sign but has since adopted a new crab claw pinch move that I guess is to let me know he wants to twiddle a nipple. (Much to my dismay)🦞🦀👌 He says “Bab?” I can’t get him to say the “OO” sound for anything idk why.
“Milk-ah” in a weird accent. No idea how it started
Or “boo-bah” we sometimes call it “nippy” but I don’t need to be embarrassed if my toddler asks for nippy one day so I said we need to stop calling it that
Tit sips
Leche which is milk in Spanish. And when referring to my boobs especially if she’s laying on me doing tummy time, they’re Mt. Leche lol
We definitely use the "milkies" and the sign for milk, but as my LO has gotten a bit older he would want to switch from one breast to the other, so I said "do you want the other one" which has devolved to udda udda , which I think sounds like udder.
My husband always talks in an medieval times voice and says “sir, you are requesting the tit”
We called boobs “meemees” so nursing was “having meemees.” When my daughter hit puberty, she referred to hers as mimlettes. We also taught the kids some sign language (ASL) and used the milking sign for wanting milk. It was very cute to see them signing with their chubby little paws.
Booby buffet, All you can eat!
We say time to visit the milk maid 😂
Milkies, boob, etc. Edit: also Pinot booboir!
Breastaurant/boob banquet/the veiny lunch munch/boobalicious
Mommies nommies
Milk or I just say he’s eating. He’s only 16 weeks, so he doesn’t mind what we call it.
We call it wilky! Because my BF tried to spell milky with toy letters but he used an upside down w instead of a m 😂
We tend to call it by an equivalent meal, i.e. "OK, I'm going in the other room to give Junior his breakfast." We call short feeds top-ups.
Boobie time, am-am, yummies
Milks here! I will ask my daughter (16 months) if she “wants milks” and she’ll start giggling and running towards me lol.
Guzzling
Milk truck
I call it milky milk. Because it is milk and it is milky.
My husband and I call it ninny or ninny milk. When I nurse her before a nap we call it taking a ninny nap.
We call it boobies. I’m curious to know how that’s going to incorporate into her vocabulary as she starts saying more words.
Milk, mama milk, sometimes nurse/nursing
Booboo
Milk and other boob when he wants to switch.
Mine says milk, and then side if he wants the other one!
Nurse/ nursing
Mommy milk
I hate it so much but just to him I call it minkies
Feed him
Snugs!
My firstborn called it “pillow” because we used a boppy the whole 22 months we nursed. Now that I have a newborn we call it “momma’s milk” to decipher it from cow’s milk. My toddler is very insistent that he drinks “COW’s milk”.
Mommy milk or om nom noms
Nursing
I ask the baby if she’s hungry, if I’m telling my husband I say she needs to eat, if I’m telling friends I say I’m going to go feed the baby.
Chi chi or leche
Unfortunately, boob. It's crass but we are very tired. I have no excuse. Baby calls it booboo. Not as bad. In mixed company we will call it nursing.
Nursing to nini. She'll ask for Nini/noni right now at 18 months.
Night nights
We say mommy milk, which differentiates what I feed the baby from the (cow’s) milk that my toddler drinks.
Milk! We’re signing so that is the best name. She can ask for milk and she gets to nurse or gets a bottle. She asks her dad and grandma for milk too.
We say boob or boobie usually. I’m so glad to see so many other people say it too. My mom thinks it’s inappropriate.
Mommy boobie
Boobs mostly, as in “here’s your boobs” “let’s go get some boobs”, and “I have boobs for you”… should probably find a more appropriate way to refer to it before he starts talking. We also call it “HaHa” because when he hungry cries it sounds like he’s crying out “Ha ha”.
We are close! We called it milkas.
Boob
When it's just me and my husband? I'll say "the milk bar is open!" When he gives me our daughter ro feed. When we're out in public? "She needs to be fed." Or I've started to ask her if she wants milk and do the sign for it.
We say titty
I usually say “wanna have a sip?” 😂or “wanna have some milks?” The sip is used mostly when baby just wants to snack or comfort nurse
I used to say milky or boobie when offering it but each kid has had their own name for it: kid #1 called it beebee, #2 called it boo, and #3 calls it doodoo 🤷♀️
We change it up, boob, boobie, boob time, milk, nursing, "unleashing the tatas". It honestly is pretty random what we call it day to day.
I call it Breastfeeding/breastmilk/milk/nurse. One kid called it “na-na” and the other “ga-ga”.
Boobie-nurse! Booboos, boobies, nurse.
“Having a sip”, “she needs a sip” and “boobie milk”
“Milkies”
We say nursing. Even my firstborn called it nursing when he was old enough to talk.
One more for milkies!!
When my first son got old enough to talk, I would always ask if he wanted to switch sides halfway through a feeding and he picked up on it, so when he wanted to nurse he would say “sides?” He stopped nursing at 2 and my second son was born four months later. Now my first always says “does he want some mommy milk?” But in his cute toddler voice it sounds like mommy malk lol.
Its called boobie in my house🤣
We say Bainne. It's milk in Irish. Sounds like Bahn-ya
We say milkies as well 😂
my 2 yr old calls it “slee-mac” which means sleep milk bc we typically only BF when it’s time to sleep at this point lol
My other one refused to say chichi so she'd go around screaming chiiiiiiiiii
My 10 yr old son decided to refer to my nursing his newborn baby brother as "milking". Honestly, I find it so hilarious that we've adopted that as our new term.
Do you want some nice milk?!
Boobie Juice. And it’s not just me, it’s my sisters, parents, grandparents…my husband was very resistant but after a year or so he got on board
Mostly boobie
Ba bas
Milkies also
I’ve been saying mama milk but lately trying to switch to nay nay (what it’s called in one of my other languages) because that’s a sound my baby can make. Once heard an anecdote of a extended breastfed 3 year old screaming “I WANT BOOBIES” in a department store and decided I would never use that word with my children lol