Do Your Breasts Have a Nickname?
August 19, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breastfeeding, humor
Thelma and Louise? Lucy and Ethel?
Have you given your “girls” a nickname? Does your nursling have a special name for your breasts? My breasts — and I am sure the world really needs to know this — are called “mum-mums” (interestingly, the same as the name for nursing, “mum-mum,” while the breast milk is called “mum-mum milk,” as opposed to cow’s milk). As a child (long after I weaned) I called my mother’s breasts Mount Fujis!
Leave a comment and humor us with your own nicknames!
Ha ha! Just last night I was thinking they could be Flopsy and Mopsy! lol
When I was breastfeeding my daughter, my son called them my “nursings” because I was always nursing baby girl. LOL!!
My first son learned to call them “boobies” from his dad, and on occasion even says worse. I didn’t want to repeat that with my second son, and so we call them “nursies.” Not terribly creative, but less embarrassing!
with my oldest they were “boo-boo”, then after she learned to talk and got embarrased, we changed to teaching our children how to ask for “milk”. And we just use the sign for milk which works great because now they don’t say the word, they just sign it. =]
In college, they were named Stephen and Andrew after the boys that lived in the dorm room across the hall. Andrew chose the right side, because it was slightly bigger than the left. Ironically, Andrew was the one that developed cancer!
My daughter said, “Mommy I have a de-de. Daddy has a d-de. But you don’t have a de-de.”
I asked her why I don’t have a de-de (our nickname for breast). She replied, “you have a dodo!”
Dodo? isn’t that something extinct?!
Well we took the TV route and went with B1 and B2 like bananas in pajamas, which is also a funny title for a kid’s show…
My oldest daughter called mine “snacks” because as she got older she would want a mommy snack. I love that memory.
I refer to both of my breasts as “Ninny”. My Daughter’s only 4 months old, but she knows exactly what you’re talking about when you say the word.
"Nan-nan" was the named passed down to me from a few generations ahead of me and I think it came from what the lusty cries of a newborn seem to anunciate when they ask for a meal. We’ve shortened it to "nanny" so now I feel like a goat! Also, my husband always reassures my
2-month-old that the "milk trucks" are on their way when she gets fussy.