Alternate names? - Page 2

[Red Pajama]

We've just used "nurse". It was "nur-nur" for the longest time.

[mormontreehugger]

Thanks for all the replies! One thing I do know, I want to start signing with him soon! Still figuring out a good word to use... Or at least something to start with until he starts talking and possibly mangles it into his own creation.

[nervousmommy]

My DS is almost 14 months and not quite talking. Just this weekend I realized I say "boobie" quite often like the second quote below but now I'm nervous that he'll start saying it. We always ask him if he wants "milk" or "mama milk" or "milkys" or "nursing", but I would say "how about the other boobie"

I was one of those people who didn't stop saying "boobie" soon enough but oddly DD seems to get that the anatomical structure is a boobie, but when she wants to nurse it's "nursies".

How old is your DD?

My daughter calls it "Nueys" (rhymes with Huey) I always said "nursies" or "nursing" or "nurse" but I also would ask her to "be nice to mommie's boobies" while nursing. I must have said that a lot (I'm sure I did, she's always been pretty rough) and so she started by calling them "boo" and then "boo boo boo booie!!!" It was very cute, but I did realize that I didn't want that to turn into boobie. So I said we're going to call it "nursies" and within a day she was saying "nuey." So nueys it is.

Same question to you too? Am I doomed? I'm nervous we call it too many things and thought about introducing another word like "nummies" instead of the noun "boobies" like "be nice to nummies" He signs milk when he wants to nurse..no words

[sunfish21]

We have nummies here, which DD at 22 months can now pronounce. It sounded just like mayonnaise for several months, which earned us some looks....

[kcstar]

I've always called it "milk" or "nurse", and if he pointed to the breast then I'd say "breast". The past two months, during the day, I've been teaching him to sign "please milk". For a while he verbalized it "peas mil", but now he mostly just signs "please", and then with the "milk" sign he'll say something like "me" or "mil"

[Emmery'sMom]

We've just always called it boobies....personally breastfeeding is something I'm proud of and I could give a flip who knows or hears her ask for it (gasp)

I also taught her the sign for milk but said boobies while doing the sign so for her that's what it means. My mom jokes that my DD is french though- now she asks for "boo-bahs."

She occasionally asks for "pillow" too, because she lays on a pillow on my lap to nurse and take a nap

[pdxmomazon]

I've always referred to breast feeding as nursing. I like how that sounds. My 20 (almost 21!) month-old calls it "Nee-Nee." She also refers to my breasts as "nee-nee." I can handle her saying "I nee nee!" in public. I don't especially like the word boobies... Can't imagine my child calling my breasts "boobies"! That'd drive me nuts :-)

[lovebug]

what a great thread. lots of advice!

[Teenytoona]

Before DD was born, I read all the "how-to-breastfeed" things I could get my hands on. It was suggested to say something to the baby to indicate opening the mouth wide. I think it said "open" but that never made any sense to me, such a big word for a little baby (that was my pregnant mind's thought). So from birth I would say "ah, ah" to get her to open her mouth when she would latch on.

DD was four days old when DH woke me from a nap saying "I'm sorry to wake you, but she just ever so politely asked me for ah-ah." Every time she latched on she'd repeat me and say "ah-ah" (at least as much as a little baby can). She's been calling it ah-ah ever since and she's going to be 2 in 2.5 weeks. For a while she also did the sign for milk, but mostly it's been ah-ah.

[spicy tomato]

Mama's milk

We use the word 'milk', though now he differentiates "Mama's Milk" and "Cow's Milk" because at 2 1/2 he has the option. I have carried him out of the grocery store (very tired) with him stating "I want my Mama's milk" over and over... Sort of embarrassing, yet sort of funny at the same time.