Our new cute thing is that when they are done nursing they pull my shirt back down and say “Bye bye tissy!” F also once lunged at me across the bed after I got my bra out of the way and cried “I’m coming tissy!”
We call nursing “tissy” rather than the more standard “nums” or “milkies” because I think it sounds like they are saying “titty” with a lisp, which is as neat a summation of my sense of humor as you are likely to find.
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June 2nd, 2008 21:16
lmao! “I’m coming tissy”? Bet when you’re engorged that’s a relief to the tissy’s ears. wait…. nevermind.
June 2nd, 2008 21:29
Mercifully by this age engorgement is a thing of the past. I would have to be gone ALL day for that to be an issue. It wasn’t one of my favorite parts of nursing to be sure.
June 2nd, 2008 22:13
I never breastfed past 18 months so none of them had a word for it…Max & Theo will probably be weaned soon, too. But i was thinking about this after you posted something previously — ’tissy’ is so cute! Is there a post or a thread somewhere with cute toddler words for nursing/breasts?
June 3rd, 2008 08:10
I’m coming tissy is adorable. I just taught them nurse here, but they both say something that sounds like “urse” so end up yelling “Mama urse!” or “more urse!” a lot.
June 3rd, 2008 09:45
I used to call it “boobies” with my older son, until I heard a radio show with a mom who did extended breastfeeding, and warned what would happen when the baby got older. (I didn’t have any breastfeeding friends, yet!) So, I changed the name, I forget to what, but he self weaned at 15 months anyway, so it wasn’t that big of a deal. With my younger son, we did the traditional “num nums”, and that worked just fine.
June 3rd, 2008 11:07
“I’m coming tissy!”
I say the same thing to Kate sometimes but she doesn’t think it’s nearly as cute.
June 3rd, 2008 12:12
We use “nursing” and “milk” because I have an irrational aversion to baby talk. It was awfully silly when Sanna started playing Peek-a-Boo with my breasts. (”Where the milk go? Boo, milk! Boo!”)
“I’m coming, tissy!” is hilarious.
June 3rd, 2008 14:27
LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!!!! I am a crunchy mama of triplets + 2, and if you don’t mind I will be adding you to my blog!
I really wish I could have nursed the trio…but my body blew up after the c-section.
June 5th, 2008 21:09
Oh, I just had to share this with you! This goes way beyond BF F before her prom…read the comments too.
http://harrisboys.blogspot.com/2008/06/breastfeeding.html
June 7th, 2008 21:10
My son weaned himself at about 20 or so months (he is now 7 going on 8). I used the child lead weaning process, which worked very naturally for both of us (& later w/my daughter although she weaned herself much sooner). He would only nurse when he thought to ask for it. Two months went by before he asked for “miwk” again. When he discovered nothing was coming out…he began pressing down on it as though there was a malfunction at the “factory,” then he looked up and sleepily said, “Mommy, turn it on.”
June 9th, 2008 23:18
That is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. My son is now 13 months and looks like he’ll have to be removed from my breasts with a crowbar. I don’t mind. I love it! But sometimes people ask when I’m going to put an end to the nursing. I tell them when my son is old enough to ask for the car keys then no more nursing! Ask a stupid question…