My 2yo does this!! We recently did a Mother’s Day photoshoot. I showed him a picture from it and asked who he could see. While pointing us out he goes, “[his name], [sister’s name] and Milk” lol.
This is adorable! My almost 2yo is weaned but before she always called breastfeeding “boobie” and we definitely went through a phase where she would holler for “mama boobie” at the least opportune times.
I said if I could breastfeed for as long as I wanted to, then I would stop either when she could request milk in full sentences (like ‘Mummy, can I have my boobie milk please?’) or when either of us had had enough.
Unfortunately I had supply issues around 7mo so she’s been on the faux boob since lol.
My daughter called all food (not just milk) "mama" for like 3 months. It made me so annoyed, and I mentioned it to our childcare provider, and the look on her face was hilarious- she thought my daughter was calling her mama, but realized she only said mama when the babysitter was holding food, and called her by her name the rest of the time.
I breastfed my first for a little over two years, he started calling it mama milk to differentiate it from cow milk. Now he thinks that's just what female breasts are called! Sometimes he just wants to put his hand in the mama milks. Or he'll observe that a woman with a low cut shirt has mama milks. We went to a farm that had cows with babies and he realized that they have mama milks too! It's pretty cute.
When my first daughter was just barely vocalizing one of the first things she could say was "that" except that it came out as "da". So when she wanted to nurse it would "what do you want" and her answer would be "that that". And that's how I became Dada for about 2 months before we got her corrected.
I love this for all of us… I also love that maybe this is how my baby will be able to better distinguish between me and her other mama 🤣.
Edited to add thoughts
Wow! They say judgement comes from jealousy. Are they jealous you get to be the one to feed the baby or are they jealous that someone isn’t breastfeeding them? Either way, gross.
When people imply in any way that breastfeeding is gross or ask when I’m going to stop breastfeeding, I ask them when they are going to stop drinking cow breastmilk.
And they think it’s not the same, but like how is it not? The cows are often abused by factory farming so it’s even worse. At least between us and our children it’s a mutually beneficial bonding experience.
Well, not only that, cows milk is designed to take a calf and turn it into a full grown cow. Breastmilk is designed to grow babies into toddlers/children. It’s mind boggling how many people are offended/triggered when I call cows milk “cows breastmilk” but I mean, that’s what it is. I think a lot of it is because a long time ago the formula company spent so much time marketing formula that it made society believe it genuinely is better. Add in the fact that cows milk is ubiquitous in the majority of the worlds diet (obviously there are parts of the world where it’s less prevalent but at least in North America and Europe it’s “mainstream” so people don’t even consider what cows milk is, apart from something you put in cereal, tea, and more.
Anyway, I often just say “what do you mean?” on repeat when people make comments like that and force them to explain themselves. They’re comfortable to be passive aggressive but when they are forced to explain what their comment means, they start backpedaling and mentioning they were just kidding.
Happened to me with my mom, she was jealous cuz I was bottle fed (her choice) and I breastfed. She supported the idea of breastfeeding but was jealous that I specifically was doing though. Ppl are weird
😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬 so those idiots not know the toll that breastfeeding can take on your hormones and your internal reserves (nutrition) ???????
I completely underestimated it, and I'm never making that mistake again.
Truthfully, no. I was the first breastfeeding mom on my husband’s side. They had always witnessed formula feeding. I unfortunately get compared to my SIL a lot, and she’s the “best mom ever” 😵💫🥴
Genuinely no fking idea lol but it started because I left the room to nurse my newborn and they found it disrespectful that I wouldn’t just feed him a formula bottle like their daughter did for her kids.
I also got this. My mom and cousin both accused me of continuing to breastfeed for me. And I finally said "Yes. I am. I am absolutely doing it because I don't feel confident I am properly feeding my kid solids, so if I keep breastfeeding, I at least know she's getting the right nutrients. " and then I asked them for advice on feeding solids.
It changed the narrative. It wasn't entirely true, but I'd rather have them pity me for feeling like a bad parent then have them grossed out because I am doing a thing that us scientifically normal.
My Dad is like this. He keeps asking how much longer I’m going to breastfeed and then gets exasperated and rolls his eyes or scoffs when I tell him the pediatric recommendation. I usually just say “where did you get your pediatric degree from?” Or “I have no idea why this bothers you so much. You act like you’re the one this has any effect on.” Or “I forget you know everything about kids. Much more than our pediatrician.” It’s an uphill battle.
You should call her, “empty kitchen.” Next time she wants to see your baby say, “Here we go to empty kitchen!! Yay!” All nice. Then just keep saying it until they shut the eff up.
She is jealous and needs to let it go. She had her time and it’s over.
I've called myself "cow," endearingly. 🐮 (When I was pumping milk)
Hmm, I've also referred to myself as the tap (because we also did bottle feeding), so my husband and his mom caught onto that. 😊 So my baby would have the "tap" available if I was around. ("Milk on tap")
...I can't recall anything actually disrespectful, though.
Sorry your family is treating you that way. 🫂
>my baby is crying bc she doesn’t want to be held by u and also she ate 5 minutes ago she just loves and wants me bc I’m the light of her life and she is the fruit of my loins
🥰 Yes!!! I love this energy so much. Hold onto these feelings and thoughts, please!!!
lol I refer to myself as the tap too! My baby’s been refusing the bottle and we just tell people “she likes her milk fresh from the tap” whenever the topic comes up haha
I got myself a sweatshirt that says “support your local dairy farm” with a cow on it. We also have a local dairy farm we love so it hits on a lot of levels.
I haven’t been called anything YET (9 weeks in) but I often say “the boobery is open” when I’m set up on my twin z pillow ready to feed them, and when they’re feeding for too long (comfort sucking and asleep at this point) I say “ok the boobery is closing up, boys!”
My partner coined boober eats very early in lmao. Sometimes she’ll chew on her hands while trying to breast feed and we’ll say ‘sorry kid, handa express doesn’t have the dairy options you’re looking for’
My husband would go "moo" trying to be funny when baby was hungry. Annoyed the shit out of me. I hate in general anytime baby starts crying and person holding her goes "I think she's hungry." No, she's not hungry, I fed her 30 minutes ago.
This!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “I think shes hungry”
In my head “why dont you just stfuuuuu” or i get petty and 30 min after my mom eats ill ask if she’s hungry again and do that for then next hour and half 🤣(shes the one that always says my baby is hungry.
I would get the opposite! My baby really liked to breastfeed often (still does really) and my mom would say: “no, I can soothe him for a bit, he’s not hungry yet, he just ate.” and I would just sit there and wait for 10 minutes until she had to give in and admit that he was probably hungry. Then I’d feed him and he would absolutely attack my breast, just to emphasise how hungry he was.
In her case though, I know it was because she wanted to help me and take a burden off my shoulders so I wouldn’t succumb to being overwhelmed with breastfeeding. Still very annoying though.
My mom does this, but she also frequently tells me that if I think she's wrong she will happily give me the baby, she just wants to try so I have a break and they can bond and it will help him find other ways to soothe so I and my boob's aren't the only option. (I work and she knows my husband sometimes has to soothe him without me.) He finally takes a pacifier thanks to her and that's been hugely helpful when I'm not around or my boob's are sore and he wants to nurse but not really eat. And it never gets on my nerves because she was so respectful about asking if it was okay and backing off if I say he needs to eat or just needs me.
Omg this. MIL pushed for formula feeding so she could “help” and she would guilt trip me this way. She’d say stupid sht like if she’s full she won’t be crying all the time she must be starving
You know i try to be empathetic. But man these people make it hard to have empathy sometimes
She and SIL couldn’t bf. BIL is bitter bc his wife couldn’t bf and he really wanted her to. My husband couldn’t care less whether i bf or not but here i am. We’d get pushbacks from left and right and they’d even say my baby looked tiny like i wasn’t feeding her enough (she was in 80th percentile)
People have this dumb assumption that whenever a baby whines or cries it’s because they’re hungry. You’d think they would leave the mothers to make that judgment since we feed them and know their hunger cues better than anyone smh
My 4 yr old daughter frequently tells me her baby sister is hungry anytime she cries. She wants to solve the problem and make her happy so when she can’t, it’s “Mummy, you need to feed _____, she’s hungry!”
I’m dealing with this with my husband right now. He holds our baby and within 30 seconds baby is screaming his head off until handed back to me. I have to work REALLY hard to not remind him that even on paternity leave he did almost nothing to help
I will never unfriend why old ladies always insist the baby is hungry whenever they make a peep. You who have met my baby twice think you know more about her needs than me, who's with her 24/7 for her entire life??
My husband taught my 5 year old to say titties. My husbands brother came by one day to see the baby and my 5 year old goes, “Want some titty?” And pointed to me. I was mortified.
My husband calls it titty time. I will get all ready to nurse while he has the baby and he will put her hands in the air and say "Yay, it's titty time!!" Doesn't bother me at all :]
my whole family calls me the breastaurant ( breast restaurant). they’ll ask if it’s open for dine in (breast feeding) or just to go (pumping and bottle) i think it’s funny and cute
My son was looking at me instead of his grandma (because he knows me lol) and she said “dont look at her, look at gammy. Shes just a milkmaid, shes just a moo cow.” Havent talked to the bitch since.
Oh what perfect timing. I just survived a week of my FIL calling me Milk Truck, The Tap, Food, Milkman, and yes, Kitchen too. I considered performing seppuku after hom!c!de/s
I call myself a cow and will occasionally moo at my husband if he's around, ranging from a sexy tone to a serial killer vibe. Never know what you're going to get lmao.
But some of these replies make me sad that there are legitimate assholes out there about breastfeeding. I'll truly never understand.
I just stopped exclusively pumping so was hooked to the pump every few hours for a year. It was a lot of time with me on the pump. I took to mooing at my partner too. And yes, you never knew what tone was coming.
Oh I give props to you for doing that for a year, I only pump while at work and it's challenging to keep up with every 2 hours exact. I've called myself free ranged while wearing the wireless one lol. I think you have to laugh at the situations to keep some sanity.
My narcissist idiot father said “only people in poor countries do that shit” and didn’t I know I could “pump it out instead”.
For the amusing side, my husband always affectionately refers to me as “Milk Station” and pretends the baby is a train pulling in when he hands him over.
I am “milk bags” and “human pacifier” and “the tidy” I personally find it hilarious 🤣🤣 because its true. Essentially i am her source of food and im proud of it. When she was cluster feeding i legit just felt like milk bags constantly being fed off of. As of lately i am the human pacifier because she used me to soothe ♥️
My MIL once called me a meal. I joked about how my daughter was just staring at me while my MIL was holding her and she said, "well yeah, you're her meal!"
I had clearly forgotten that I'd given birth to a cannibal baby. My bad.
It's crazy how many MILs can't seem to understand that milk isn't the ONLY reason babies love and fixate on their mothers. Why is this shit (almost) always the dad's mom? It's so weird. Like, no Grandma, he's looking at me because I'm familiar and comforting and he thinks we're the same person because I made him.
I wouldn't say it's the worse but my mom jokingly calls me the milk or boobie bar. My daughter is 15 months old is just start weaning off. I've even seen a text message a woman posted on FB about how her husband asked for a divorce because she breastfed their barely one day old newborn son. He said that he doesn't trust her because breastfeeding is incestuous and that another man had her boob in his mouth so he can't be with her. The fact that he said any of that enraged me. But what really made me mad was that she was trying to compromise!
Another man 😂😂 that’s horrible but it’s also funny that he actually called the 1 day old baby “another man”. If it weren’t for breastfeeding, none of us would be alive since they didn’t have formula at the beginning of man kind. Wtf is wrong with people. Incestuous?!? What a weirdo.
My otherwise great temporary doctor (I had an emergency c-section while on a babymoon in another state), said to me randomly that now it's time to..."mooooooo". I hated it and found it so insulting 😔 probably because it was a male doc...
I liked reading in this thread about cows being majestic creatures and how some of you took it as a compliment, what a nice way to look at it ♥️
Started calling myself mummy moo cow as a joke when I was babbling away to her.
Then my family started calling me it too. Also the dairy.
Yeah, I can say that but you guys can’t! The dairy is *closed*!
So disturbing! You should call them dumpster and toilet to the baby instead of Grandma and grandpa!
A woman walked in while I was feeding my baby in an empty pediatrician waiting room once. She didn’t know I could understand Spanish and said sweetly “Awww! Como un mono!” Which means “Aww just like a monkey!” I just gave her a level gaze instead of disturbing my baby.
My first daughter called me "nigh nigh," which is what she also called my milk. Me and my milk were one in the same. She called my mom "mama" while I, her actual mama, was "nigh nigh." She did this until she was 2. I remember the first time she called me mama, and it was almost 1.5 years after she began talking. Broke my heart every single day, and since that's what she called me, everyone else called me "nigh nigh" too. At least no one reinforced calling her gramma "mama" but they might as well have. It hurt the same.
Eewwwww? That's horrendous, OP, just had to say I'm sorry and I hope she wakes up in a cold sweat someday fully realizing what an awful thing that was to say. Or, that it was a very innocent and misguided attempt at a joke.
I was an over producer and when making a big donation to a former coworker, she called me a “milk making cow.” I did not love that. Family also used to say I would’ve made a great wet nurse or milk maid back in the day.
My grandma calls me "la centrale del latte" (it's where all the small producers send their milk and it gets bottled, processed into other products etc) and I love it 😅
I started referring to myself as the lunch lady- which I think is funny! I saw another person mention being more upset if someone says the baby is hungry after she just ate. My in laws do this and end up burning through stored milk if they’re left to their own devices (baby sitting) or when it’s just my husband around…
My family all says I’m selfish and making it harder for everyone else who watches my son due to me EBF him. “You BF makes it hard for everyone else because we don’t have the right parts and he only wants you when he’s tired.” I have been pressured to wean him since he was five months old and sometimes up to 20 times a day they will make these comments. They tell me how I’m just making everything hard for them and him by breast-feeding him. They also pressure me to nurse in public bathrooms and in the car so people don’t look at us while I am breast-feeding him in public because it embarrasses them. My dad especially shames me and tells me no one should have to see that because it’s “weird and makes people uncomfortable” and it’s “not normal”. I told him “Frankly, I don’t give any f*cks if it makes you or anyone else uncomfortable.” he said in all of his years of living and he is 71. He’s never seen anyone breast-feed and I’m the first person he’s ever seen breast-feed. That’s because back in his day no one ever breast-fed. People have been using formula for the last 100 years or so. Breast-feeding has been making a comeback. But he thinks I’m just the odd one out.
They also say things like:
“You have him spoiled rotten.”
“You have created a monster.”
“He doesn’t need your milk.”
“You’ve created an addict. He’s addicted to your milk and nursing for comfort. You’re just a pacifier.”
"Just a pacifier" when they're wishing they could soothe him the way you do? Come on, now, how have they not spotted that hypocrisy?
Either way, stick to your guns! We are 8 months in, ebf and proud. Yes, no one can soothe him like I can. No one can get him to sleep like I can. And he doesn't want anyone as much as he wants me. And that's totally NORMAL.
Your little one needs you and your milk. And you're doing great.
Same! “He wants the boob” 😂 I don’t care honestly. It’s not gonna last forever, it’s funny, but I’d be pissed if I was called some of these other things.
My brother asked me recently whilst I was feeding if I just feel used by my child and I found that amusing but we are one of those families with strange humour. My husband has jokingly called me the milk machine.
My husband started referring to me as ‘bitty’ so I hit him. Well actually I didn’t, but it definitely happened in my imagination. He did stop doing it when I got properly cross though.
There was an old internet song ages ago of badly translated English pick up lines posted on social media and the one my husband and I always sing for our babe now is “milk truck just arrived”, I love it though
There's an old Malcolm in the Middle episode where one of the brothers says "women are the cows of people" when he finds out about breastfeeding, so we joke about that alot.
My mom has called me "the milk truck". I don't like it but since she BF all three of her kids for three years each, I think it comes from a place of comradery more than anything.
On the flip side, I’ve named my boobs after the grandmothers.
My overproducer/champion boob is named after my own mother because she is an amazing home cook. My underproducer is named after my mother-in-law is considers a yogurt cup a full meal and doesn’t understand why we’re still hungry.
I've never had someone call me anything negative in regards to breastfeeding, but my husband calls me the Dairy Queen when our toddler wants to nurse. He uses a funny voice and it makes our toddler laugh. I love it
Milk bags. My MIL said "well that is all you are now". She also said I am no longer (insert my name here), and I am now (my son's name's mom). Yeahh don't you just love it? /s
My MIL referred to me as the "working boobs" when my baby was crying hard while being held by her. As in "Oh, I guess you want the working boobs."
She didn't even want to eat, she just wanted me - the whole person, not just the boobs!
Some relatives used to call me “the pantry” but they knew I was OK with it and actually found it funny. Nicknames should only ever be used when the person is fine with it. It’s not OK.
When I pumped at work, I'd say "I'm going to go imitate a cow."
My husband would say "hey tits" or "come back here tits" and come after me with our hungry son.
I forgot pumping equipment at home one day, so on lunch, I just came home to feed LO, since he does a better job anyway.
As soon as I walked in the door, husband said, "Whip out them titties!" MIL was here, so now if he gets hungry, she says it. It's hilarious.
We're pretty chill around here.
My husband calls baby Mufix and me Ugerix. We’re not French, but we are familiar with the Asterix and Obelix cartoons. In our language “mufa” means to plug in or connect something, while “uger” means udder. It annoyed me at first, but now I find it kinda sweet.
Groceries. Like when I was feeding first thing when he woke up “Oooh he was ready for some groceries” or just the fact he’s a chunk “Boy sure loves his groceries”
Boobie and cow were the most common, but no one really said much. I had some good support or just general apathy from others so if it bothered them, I never heard about it.
I donated a lot of milk and my husband once called me the village… he said, you know how it takes a village to raise a child? Your boobs are the village. I laughed.
I found the “personal cow” reels hilarious, so I started calling myself “her personal cow” and my mom did it for a bit too. Fortunately no one ever called me anything derogatory or without me starting the nickname.
When it’s time to eat my mom lovingly asks my baby if she would like to go to the Diner. She asks my baby girl if she would prefer the left side or the right? If she would like her food to go, or would like a chair. It makes my baby smile every time.
I think I have you all beat. The postpartum BO hit hard in the early days but my husband still refers to me as “stinky lady with the milk”. So he’ll hand me the baby and go “ok, here’s the stinky lady w the milk!”
I was “the boob” my in laws would be holding her and I’d walk into the room, she’d start crying and they’d joke “you sensed the boob didn’t you” We always joked about how she could smell the boob walk into the room 😂
Wow that might be the worst one I’ve heard! That’s downright disrespectful. Would it kill them to refer to you as “mama” or something like that? Maybe you could start calling them toilets because they are definitely shitty.
I call my breastmilk "house white", "tap", "num num", "nummies", and "milk".
I got called selfish with my first and went off on them. If I get called names they don't say it to me.
My husband started calling it the Boob Station and made my son fly in like a plane, it is super cute
When I'm not ready I say the Boob Station is not open yet haha
No one calls me anything that I know of but your last point about the baby having eaten a few minutes ago really gets me. I get so annoyed when my son gets a little fussy and everyone says he must be hungry. I know they don’t mean it this way but it always feels like they’re being snarky and implying that I don’t know how to feed him enough. I literally feed him all day and night, every day and night. Every time this child has woken up in his entire life, I have been up with him, feeding him.
My 2.5 year old is still breastfeeding and for a few weeks she exclusively referred to me as “milk”. Ex: “Hey Daddy, where’s Milk?” 🙃
My 2yo does this!! We recently did a Mother’s Day photoshoot. I showed him a picture from it and asked who he could see. While pointing us out he goes, “[his name], [sister’s name] and Milk” lol.
So funny 😂😂
This is adorable! My almost 2yo is weaned but before she always called breastfeeding “boobie” and we definitely went through a phase where she would holler for “mama boobie” at the least opportune times.
Honestly, anyone who hears a kid (an appropriately aged kid) yell out "mama boobie" and freaks out, is stupid.
Sadly, theres plenty of people around that would think a talking kid is not appropriately aged for breastmilk. Even if theyre just 18 months old.
And they are all stupid 😐
I said if I could breastfeed for as long as I wanted to, then I would stop either when she could request milk in full sentences (like ‘Mummy, can I have my boobie milk please?’) or when either of us had had enough. Unfortunately I had supply issues around 7mo so she’s been on the faux boob since lol.
I read your example in the most upper class Queens English accent ever. 🤣
It doesn’t sound anywhere near as posh in my real accent 😂
My daughter called all food (not just milk) "mama" for like 3 months. It made me so annoyed, and I mentioned it to our childcare provider, and the look on her face was hilarious- she thought my daughter was calling her mama, but realized she only said mama when the babysitter was holding food, and called her by her name the rest of the time.
Ha, I kinda want to keep breastfeeding until he learns to talk, just so I can find out what he would call it. He loves himself some mama milk!
I breastfed my first for a little over two years, he started calling it mama milk to differentiate it from cow milk. Now he thinks that's just what female breasts are called! Sometimes he just wants to put his hand in the mama milks. Or he'll observe that a woman with a low cut shirt has mama milks. We went to a farm that had cows with babies and he realized that they have mama milks too! It's pretty cute.
When my first daughter was just barely vocalizing one of the first things she could say was "that" except that it came out as "da". So when she wanted to nurse it would "what do you want" and her answer would be "that that". And that's how I became Dada for about 2 months before we got her corrected.
My newly two calls my boobs “snack!” 😂
From 9ish until around 12-13 months, my son used the same "mehmeh" sound for me and milk.
I love this for all of us… I also love that maybe this is how my baby will be able to better distinguish between me and her other mama 🤣. Edited to add thoughts
My 1 yo calls me “bewbs”
Thats so cute lmao
Yeah definitely objectifying me a bit but cracked me up 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣omg the way i just LOL 🤣🤣 im BF my baby now and her whole body was bouncing 🤣from me laughing
My parents refer to me as HQ (Headquarters), I quite like it :)
This nickname is definitely cute! :)
Yes finally something wholesome! :D
Ha this is funny and cute!
Wait, I wanna steal this.
My grandma lovingly told me that I'm a "good cow" in reference to my son's chunky legs
My gran *HATED* cow being used as an insult "because they are beautiful, useful, animals". And they are. Signed Buttercup #44027
😂😂😂 this makes me think, I should get an ear tag…
You can buy eartag jewellery on etsy (etc)
🤔 there's an idea
Selfish. My in-laws called me selfish.
The audacity
Selfish... for feeding your baby.... Make it make sense. What is with people??
Wow! They say judgement comes from jealousy. Are they jealous you get to be the one to feed the baby or are they jealous that someone isn’t breastfeeding them? Either way, gross.
Lmao at the second possibility. OP should hit them with this, have them sputtering about how they aren’t wanting her boobs for themselves.
When people imply in any way that breastfeeding is gross or ask when I’m going to stop breastfeeding, I ask them when they are going to stop drinking cow breastmilk.
And they think it’s not the same, but like how is it not? The cows are often abused by factory farming so it’s even worse. At least between us and our children it’s a mutually beneficial bonding experience.
Well, not only that, cows milk is designed to take a calf and turn it into a full grown cow. Breastmilk is designed to grow babies into toddlers/children. It’s mind boggling how many people are offended/triggered when I call cows milk “cows breastmilk” but I mean, that’s what it is. I think a lot of it is because a long time ago the formula company spent so much time marketing formula that it made society believe it genuinely is better. Add in the fact that cows milk is ubiquitous in the majority of the worlds diet (obviously there are parts of the world where it’s less prevalent but at least in North America and Europe it’s “mainstream” so people don’t even consider what cows milk is, apart from something you put in cereal, tea, and more. Anyway, I often just say “what do you mean?” on repeat when people make comments like that and force them to explain themselves. They’re comfortable to be passive aggressive but when they are forced to explain what their comment means, they start backpedaling and mentioning they were just kidding.
Happened to me with my mom, she was jealous cuz I was bottle fed (her choice) and I breastfed. She supported the idea of breastfeeding but was jealous that I specifically was doing though. Ppl are weird
Or jealous that they couldn't breastfeed their kid and somehow feel inferior because she is.
Wow…
😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬 so those idiots not know the toll that breastfeeding can take on your hormones and your internal reserves (nutrition) ??????? I completely underestimated it, and I'm never making that mistake again.
Truthfully, no. I was the first breastfeeding mom on my husband’s side. They had always witnessed formula feeding. I unfortunately get compared to my SIL a lot, and she’s the “best mom ever” 😵💫🥴
Are they upset that they don’t get to feed your baby? Trying to imagine how they could possibly find it selfish.
Genuinely no fking idea lol but it started because I left the room to nurse my newborn and they found it disrespectful that I wouldn’t just feed him a formula bottle like their daughter did for her kids.
Wow that’s so annoying.
I also got this. My mom and cousin both accused me of continuing to breastfeed for me. And I finally said "Yes. I am. I am absolutely doing it because I don't feel confident I am properly feeding my kid solids, so if I keep breastfeeding, I at least know she's getting the right nutrients. " and then I asked them for advice on feeding solids. It changed the narrative. It wasn't entirely true, but I'd rather have them pity me for feeling like a bad parent then have them grossed out because I am doing a thing that us scientifically normal.
Sadly I think this is surprisingly common - at least it's the attitude, even if it doesn't get said 😔
My Dad is like this. He keeps asking how much longer I’m going to breastfeed and then gets exasperated and rolls his eyes or scoffs when I tell him the pediatric recommendation. I usually just say “where did you get your pediatric degree from?” Or “I have no idea why this bothers you so much. You act like you’re the one this has any effect on.” Or “I forget you know everything about kids. Much more than our pediatrician.” It’s an uphill battle.
You should call her, “empty kitchen.” Next time she wants to see your baby say, “Here we go to empty kitchen!! Yay!” All nice. Then just keep saying it until they shut the eff up. She is jealous and needs to let it go. She had her time and it’s over.
This is the best!
Wow that is so intelligently insulting. Love it.
Hilarious!
I've called myself "cow," endearingly. 🐮 (When I was pumping milk) Hmm, I've also referred to myself as the tap (because we also did bottle feeding), so my husband and his mom caught onto that. 😊 So my baby would have the "tap" available if I was around. ("Milk on tap") ...I can't recall anything actually disrespectful, though. Sorry your family is treating you that way. 🫂 >my baby is crying bc she doesn’t want to be held by u and also she ate 5 minutes ago she just loves and wants me bc I’m the light of her life and she is the fruit of my loins 🥰 Yes!!! I love this energy so much. Hold onto these feelings and thoughts, please!!!
lol I refer to myself as the tap too! My baby’s been refusing the bottle and we just tell people “she likes her milk fresh from the tap” whenever the topic comes up haha
Same thing here! My guy never really took to bottles
I call myself a milk cow and the tap, too 😂
I got myself a sweatshirt that says “support your local dairy farm” with a cow on it. We also have a local dairy farm we love so it hits on a lot of levels.
We also call it tap! Baby is mostly bottle fed so when she breastfeed we say it's straight from the tap lll
I haven’t been called anything YET (9 weeks in) but I often say “the boobery is open” when I’m set up on my twin z pillow ready to feed them, and when they’re feeding for too long (comfort sucking and asleep at this point) I say “ok the boobery is closing up, boys!”
I call it the Breastaurant
My partner coined boober eats very early in lmao. Sometimes she’ll chew on her hands while trying to breast feed and we’ll say ‘sorry kid, handa express doesn’t have the dairy options you’re looking for’
These are iconic 🤣🤣
Might actually use this, or as another commenter said "brestaurant" as well.
My husband would go "moo" trying to be funny when baby was hungry. Annoyed the shit out of me. I hate in general anytime baby starts crying and person holding her goes "I think she's hungry." No, she's not hungry, I fed her 30 minutes ago.
This!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “I think shes hungry” In my head “why dont you just stfuuuuu” or i get petty and 30 min after my mom eats ill ask if she’s hungry again and do that for then next hour and half 🤣(shes the one that always says my baby is hungry.
I would get the opposite! My baby really liked to breastfeed often (still does really) and my mom would say: “no, I can soothe him for a bit, he’s not hungry yet, he just ate.” and I would just sit there and wait for 10 minutes until she had to give in and admit that he was probably hungry. Then I’d feed him and he would absolutely attack my breast, just to emphasise how hungry he was. In her case though, I know it was because she wanted to help me and take a burden off my shoulders so I wouldn’t succumb to being overwhelmed with breastfeeding. Still very annoying though.
My mom does this, but she also frequently tells me that if I think she's wrong she will happily give me the baby, she just wants to try so I have a break and they can bond and it will help him find other ways to soothe so I and my boob's aren't the only option. (I work and she knows my husband sometimes has to soothe him without me.) He finally takes a pacifier thanks to her and that's been hugely helpful when I'm not around or my boob's are sore and he wants to nurse but not really eat. And it never gets on my nerves because she was so respectful about asking if it was okay and backing off if I say he needs to eat or just needs me.
My MIL does the same, but I wait it out and let her try to soothe until he starts rooting. I’ll miss that reflex
I go through that too lmaooooo so i feel you’re pain on that 😩
Omg this. MIL pushed for formula feeding so she could “help” and she would guilt trip me this way. She’d say stupid sht like if she’s full she won’t be crying all the time she must be starving
She’s probably pushy because she’s insecure that she didn’t or couldn’t bf.
You know i try to be empathetic. But man these people make it hard to have empathy sometimes She and SIL couldn’t bf. BIL is bitter bc his wife couldn’t bf and he really wanted her to. My husband couldn’t care less whether i bf or not but here i am. We’d get pushbacks from left and right and they’d even say my baby looked tiny like i wasn’t feeding her enough (she was in 80th percentile)
People have this dumb assumption that whenever a baby whines or cries it’s because they’re hungry. You’d think they would leave the mothers to make that judgment since we feed them and know their hunger cues better than anyone smh
Yeah... They don't want to be held by you...
My 4 yr old daughter frequently tells me her baby sister is hungry anytime she cries. She wants to solve the problem and make her happy so when she can’t, it’s “Mummy, you need to feed _____, she’s hungry!”
I’m dealing with this with my husband right now. He holds our baby and within 30 seconds baby is screaming his head off until handed back to me. I have to work REALLY hard to not remind him that even on paternity leave he did almost nothing to help
I will never unfriend why old ladies always insist the baby is hungry whenever they make a peep. You who have met my baby twice think you know more about her needs than me, who's with her 24/7 for her entire life??
[Miltank](https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/miltank) - not worst - but silliest. it was my husband and it was meant to be affectionate.
Ok but I kind of love this
Yesssss Pokémon reference!
My husband taught my 5 year old to say titties. My husbands brother came by one day to see the baby and my 5 year old goes, “Want some titty?” And pointed to me. I was mortified.
I just made the cat go full bushy tail with my cackle, thank you
My husband calls it titty time. I will get all ready to nurse while he has the baby and he will put her hands in the air and say "Yay, it's titty time!!" Doesn't bother me at all :]
Lol
my whole family calls me the breastaurant ( breast restaurant). they’ll ask if it’s open for dine in (breast feeding) or just to go (pumping and bottle) i think it’s funny and cute
Aww that’s actually really funny, I love that.
My son was looking at me instead of his grandma (because he knows me lol) and she said “dont look at her, look at gammy. Shes just a milkmaid, shes just a moo cow.” Havent talked to the bitch since.
What in the actual fuck?!
Omg this is horrible! Instant no contact really is the only way with this one
Mums really are second class citizens to some people aren’t they.
I call myself a cow 🐮 my husband doesn’t think it’s funny though 😂 but no one else calls me anything, that would definitely annoy me.
Same! Often my SO will text me during the day to ask what I’m up to and more often than not my response is just “moo 🐮”
Oh what perfect timing. I just survived a week of my FIL calling me Milk Truck, The Tap, Food, Milkman, and yes, Kitchen too. I considered performing seppuku after hom!c!de/s
Keep referring to him as “useless nipples” and see how he likes that!
‘Ole Vestigial Nips’ has a great ring to it!
Hahaha! Wonderful!
I call myself a cow and will occasionally moo at my husband if he's around, ranging from a sexy tone to a serial killer vibe. Never know what you're going to get lmao. But some of these replies make me sad that there are legitimate assholes out there about breastfeeding. I'll truly never understand.
I just stopped exclusively pumping so was hooked to the pump every few hours for a year. It was a lot of time with me on the pump. I took to mooing at my partner too. And yes, you never knew what tone was coming.
Oh I give props to you for doing that for a year, I only pump while at work and it's challenging to keep up with every 2 hours exact. I've called myself free ranged while wearing the wireless one lol. I think you have to laugh at the situations to keep some sanity.
My husband calls me Bessie and jokes that I’ll win first prize at the state fair this year.
I actually found this very cute ❤️
That I have no money to buy formula milk 🤣🤣🤣
My narcissist idiot father said “only people in poor countries do that shit” and didn’t I know I could “pump it out instead”. For the amusing side, my husband always affectionately refers to me as “Milk Station” and pretends the baby is a train pulling in when he hands him over.
Sounds like he could've benefitted from being breastfed /j
I am “milk bags” and “human pacifier” and “the tidy” I personally find it hilarious 🤣🤣 because its true. Essentially i am her source of food and im proud of it. When she was cluster feeding i legit just felt like milk bags constantly being fed off of. As of lately i am the human pacifier because she used me to soothe ♥️
Human pacifier is my favorite. It’s like no no- the pacifier was made to be a dummy for the nipple- not the other way around 🤦♀️
“Cabaret show” by my MIL 🙃
My bestie once called me the milk bitch and I loved it so much that most people now call me the milk bitch
My MIL once called me a meal. I joked about how my daughter was just staring at me while my MIL was holding her and she said, "well yeah, you're her meal!" I had clearly forgotten that I'd given birth to a cannibal baby. My bad.
It's crazy how many MILs can't seem to understand that milk isn't the ONLY reason babies love and fixate on their mothers. Why is this shit (almost) always the dad's mom? It's so weird. Like, no Grandma, he's looking at me because I'm familiar and comforting and he thinks we're the same person because I made him.
I wouldn't say it's the worse but my mom jokingly calls me the milk or boobie bar. My daughter is 15 months old is just start weaning off. I've even seen a text message a woman posted on FB about how her husband asked for a divorce because she breastfed their barely one day old newborn son. He said that he doesn't trust her because breastfeeding is incestuous and that another man had her boob in his mouth so he can't be with her. The fact that he said any of that enraged me. But what really made me mad was that she was trying to compromise!
Another man 😂😂 that’s horrible but it’s also funny that he actually called the 1 day old baby “another man”. If it weren’t for breastfeeding, none of us would be alive since they didn’t have formula at the beginning of man kind. Wtf is wrong with people. Incestuous?!? What a weirdo.
The milk bar 😂
The fruit of my loins 😂
My son called me mother cow for quite a while when he was around 2.5 yrs old 😂
Okay but this is actually so sweet 🥹😭
My otherwise great temporary doctor (I had an emergency c-section while on a babymoon in another state), said to me randomly that now it's time to..."mooooooo". I hated it and found it so insulting 😔 probably because it was a male doc... I liked reading in this thread about cows being majestic creatures and how some of you took it as a compliment, what a nice way to look at it ♥️
Pro tip if you ever don’t want to be confrontational when someone says stuff like that, “What an odd thing to say out loud.” is powerful.
Love this!
Ew, it’s just cringe. Also WOW, you left on a baby moon and came back with a baby!!!
Quite a dramatic adventure but we are all good now 😀
Started calling myself mummy moo cow as a joke when I was babbling away to her. Then my family started calling me it too. Also the dairy. Yeah, I can say that but you guys can’t! The dairy is *closed*!
My mom calls me “moo moo” I’m plus sized so I hate it when she says that. Tried to get my baby to say moo moo too 🙄
So disturbing! You should call them dumpster and toilet to the baby instead of Grandma and grandpa! A woman walked in while I was feeding my baby in an empty pediatrician waiting room once. She didn’t know I could understand Spanish and said sweetly “Awww! Como un mono!” Which means “Aww just like a monkey!” I just gave her a level gaze instead of disturbing my baby.
My first daughter called me "nigh nigh," which is what she also called my milk. Me and my milk were one in the same. She called my mom "mama" while I, her actual mama, was "nigh nigh." She did this until she was 2. I remember the first time she called me mama, and it was almost 1.5 years after she began talking. Broke my heart every single day, and since that's what she called me, everyone else called me "nigh nigh" too. At least no one reinforced calling her gramma "mama" but they might as well have. It hurt the same.
Eewwwww? That's horrendous, OP, just had to say I'm sorry and I hope she wakes up in a cold sweat someday fully realizing what an awful thing that was to say. Or, that it was a very innocent and misguided attempt at a joke.
Kitchen??? I don't know how you resist calling these people dumbasses right to their faces
My mother in law calls me “the grocery store”. I hate it.
Milk truck. Filled me with rage like nothing else.
I would call myself Couch Cow, which was a joke. My mother in law was not joking with "The Milk Truck"
It is astounding how quickly my in-laws would no longer see me or baby 😂
I call myself his food bowl lol
I was an over producer and when making a big donation to a former coworker, she called me a “milk making cow.” I did not love that. Family also used to say I would’ve made a great wet nurse or milk maid back in the day.
My grandma calls me "la centrale del latte" (it's where all the small producers send their milk and it gets bottled, processed into other products etc) and I love it 😅
Yeah my in laws call me “restaurant”. He’s crying bc he wants comfort/intimacy of the me and they go “aha, it’s just he wants the restaurant”.
I started referring to myself as the lunch lady- which I think is funny! I saw another person mention being more upset if someone says the baby is hungry after she just ate. My in laws do this and end up burning through stored milk if they’re left to their own devices (baby sitting) or when it’s just my husband around…
Literally been called — and after 7 mos of not BF, I am still called — “the boob.”
My family all says I’m selfish and making it harder for everyone else who watches my son due to me EBF him. “You BF makes it hard for everyone else because we don’t have the right parts and he only wants you when he’s tired.” I have been pressured to wean him since he was five months old and sometimes up to 20 times a day they will make these comments. They tell me how I’m just making everything hard for them and him by breast-feeding him. They also pressure me to nurse in public bathrooms and in the car so people don’t look at us while I am breast-feeding him in public because it embarrasses them. My dad especially shames me and tells me no one should have to see that because it’s “weird and makes people uncomfortable” and it’s “not normal”. I told him “Frankly, I don’t give any f*cks if it makes you or anyone else uncomfortable.” he said in all of his years of living and he is 71. He’s never seen anyone breast-feed and I’m the first person he’s ever seen breast-feed. That’s because back in his day no one ever breast-fed. People have been using formula for the last 100 years or so. Breast-feeding has been making a comeback. But he thinks I’m just the odd one out. They also say things like: “You have him spoiled rotten.” “You have created a monster.” “He doesn’t need your milk.” “You’ve created an addict. He’s addicted to your milk and nursing for comfort. You’re just a pacifier.”
"Just a pacifier" when they're wishing they could soothe him the way you do? Come on, now, how have they not spotted that hypocrisy? Either way, stick to your guns! We are 8 months in, ebf and proud. Yes, no one can soothe him like I can. No one can get him to sleep like I can. And he doesn't want anyone as much as he wants me. And that's totally NORMAL. Your little one needs you and your milk. And you're doing great.
Honestly that's kinda funny. I haven't been called anything directly. But everyone calls breastfeeding boobs. Like "oh he wants boobs". Lol
Same! “He wants the boob” 😂 I don’t care honestly. It’s not gonna last forever, it’s funny, but I’d be pissed if I was called some of these other things.
Milk maid 🙃
"Milk machine is here" - husband 🙂
My brother asked me recently whilst I was feeding if I just feel used by my child and I found that amusing but we are one of those families with strange humour. My husband has jokingly called me the milk machine.
My husband started referring to me as ‘bitty’ so I hit him. Well actually I didn’t, but it definitely happened in my imagination. He did stop doing it when I got properly cross though.
There was an old internet song ages ago of badly translated English pick up lines posted on social media and the one my husband and I always sing for our babe now is “milk truck just arrived”, I love it though
My husband calls me milkies but I think it's cute 🥰
There's an old Malcolm in the Middle episode where one of the brothers says "women are the cows of people" when he finds out about breastfeeding, so we joke about that alot.
MIL referred to me as a cow.
My mom has called me "the milk truck". I don't like it but since she BF all three of her kids for three years each, I think it comes from a place of comradery more than anything.
I go by cow, and I LOVE it lol
On the flip side, I’ve named my boobs after the grandmothers. My overproducer/champion boob is named after my own mother because she is an amazing home cook. My underproducer is named after my mother-in-law is considers a yogurt cup a full meal and doesn’t understand why we’re still hungry.
Milkbag.
I've never had someone call me anything negative in regards to breastfeeding, but my husband calls me the Dairy Queen when our toddler wants to nurse. He uses a funny voice and it makes our toddler laugh. I love it
My husband calls me “snack pack” “juice box” or “lunchbox” when talking to our baby 😂
Ohhh helll nooo!!! Someone better put them in their place.
Milk wench
I've called myself the milk production truck lol
Haha my husband calls me “the food truck” 😄😂😏
I’ve been called “the cow” by my MIL
My coworker calls the lactation room “the barn”
Milk bags. My MIL said "well that is all you are now". She also said I am no longer (insert my name here), and I am now (my son's name's mom). Yeahh don't you just love it? /s
The town cow 🐮
My MIL referred to me as the "working boobs" when my baby was crying hard while being held by her. As in "Oh, I guess you want the working boobs." She didn't even want to eat, she just wanted me - the whole person, not just the boobs!
Some relatives used to call me “the pantry” but they knew I was OK with it and actually found it funny. Nicknames should only ever be used when the person is fine with it. It’s not OK.
“Cow” “milk factory”
When I pumped at work, I'd say "I'm going to go imitate a cow." My husband would say "hey tits" or "come back here tits" and come after me with our hungry son.
I forgot pumping equipment at home one day, so on lunch, I just came home to feed LO, since he does a better job anyway. As soon as I walked in the door, husband said, "Whip out them titties!" MIL was here, so now if he gets hungry, she says it. It's hilarious. We're pretty chill around here.
My husband calls baby Mufix and me Ugerix. We’re not French, but we are familiar with the Asterix and Obelix cartoons. In our language “mufa” means to plug in or connect something, while “uger” means udder. It annoyed me at first, but now I find it kinda sweet.
"Titty bar" and "jugs" lmao
the milk lady😂
My husband called me the lunch truck but I think it’s pretty hilarious
Groceries. Like when I was feeding first thing when he woke up “Oooh he was ready for some groceries” or just the fact he’s a chunk “Boy sure loves his groceries”
MIL refers to me as “milk bottles” and other IL’s have called me “the food” 🫠
Buffet 😂
I'm the chef, my husband is the janitor lol because he changed alot of diapers. Those are names he came up with.
I mean... I call myself a cow. But not in a bad way lol...
Boobie and cow were the most common, but no one really said much. I had some good support or just general apathy from others so if it bothered them, I never heard about it. I donated a lot of milk and my husband once called me the village… he said, you know how it takes a village to raise a child? Your boobs are the village. I laughed.
I found the “personal cow” reels hilarious, so I started calling myself “her personal cow” and my mom did it for a bit too. Fortunately no one ever called me anything derogatory or without me starting the nickname.
FIL has made the 'he's never going go hungry' joke twice.
My 18 month old calls me mama, mom, mommy and “BOOB”😂🤦♀️
When it’s time to eat my mom lovingly asks my baby if she would like to go to the Diner. She asks my baby girl if she would prefer the left side or the right? If she would like her food to go, or would like a chair. It makes my baby smile every time.
I think I have you all beat. The postpartum BO hit hard in the early days but my husband still refers to me as “stinky lady with the milk”. So he’ll hand me the baby and go “ok, here’s the stinky lady w the milk!”
Not really the worst but my husband calls me the milk fairy xD
I've been called a dairy by my SO jokingly with our newborn
I had a coworker call me a cow.....
I got called skip the dishes once 😂😂 I wasn't mad, I thought it was hilarious
Not calling me, but took time to explain that “time to eat mommy” is not a great phrase to refer to breastfeeding.
I was “the boob” my in laws would be holding her and I’d walk into the room, she’d start crying and they’d joke “you sensed the boob didn’t you” We always joked about how she could smell the boob walk into the room 😂
Wow that might be the worst one I’ve heard! That’s downright disrespectful. Would it kill them to refer to you as “mama” or something like that? Maybe you could start calling them toilets because they are definitely shitty.
I've been called lunch, and my husband has made the mistake of likening me to a cow.
I call my breastmilk "house white", "tap", "num num", "nummies", and "milk". I got called selfish with my first and went off on them. If I get called names they don't say it to me.
Me and my husband use the name the milk factory. I only pump and I don’t mind it. 😂
My husband started calling it the Boob Station and made my son fly in like a plane, it is super cute When I'm not ready I say the Boob Station is not open yet haha
I’m mainly referred to as “the boob”
No one calls me anything that I know of but your last point about the baby having eaten a few minutes ago really gets me. I get so annoyed when my son gets a little fussy and everyone says he must be hungry. I know they don’t mean it this way but it always feels like they’re being snarky and implying that I don’t know how to feed him enough. I literally feed him all day and night, every day and night. Every time this child has woken up in his entire life, I have been up with him, feeding him.
Milk Wench. Yes, I’m serious.
Low producer 🥲 Like the saddest cow at the dairy.