You can add “boobs” to the growing list of words that now send Mazzy and Harlow into hysterics. It’s right there alongside “poop” and “toilet” which I tell them is not really a fair association. “Boobs are pretty incredible,” I tell them. “Mine fed you both when you were babies!”
This makes them laugh even harder.
I also had to instruct Harlow recently not to refer to her own chest area as “boobs.”
“Ummm…those are nipples. You will grow boobs when you get older.”
Boobs have also become a popular subject lately because my friends at Phaidon sent me a copy of their newest children’s book, “What Does Baby Want?”
The answer?
BOOBS.
I mean, the book doesn’t use the word “boobs,” but it does have a fantastic cut-out spread that couldn’t really be described as anything else. If you want a conversation-starting gift for a mom-to-be to open at her baby shower, this is your present.
The new book led me to do some research and what I found is that boobs are getting a lot of attention lately. And I don’t mean in the Playboy Bunny sort of way that only men can appreciate. Boobs are being celebrated with some really fun clever products that would make awesome gifts for anybody with…BOOBS.
10 Clever Products for People with Boobs
2) Boob Planter
6) Boob Rug
9) Boob Pillow
10) Boob Pool Float
I’m giving away three copies of “What Does Baby Want?” in the comments below! Just tell me what word your kids use for boobs. You must have BOOBS to enter. I’ll pick three winners at random on August 7th!
WINNER UPDATE:
Congratulations to April Ryan, Amber Williams and Holly Leary! Please email allie@mommyshorts.com to claim your prize!
right now I call them “milkies” when conversing to my 6 month old 🙂
I would love a copy of this book!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boobies. 🙂
Now she calls them boobs (she’s 15). But when she was little she just signed “milk”.
Right now it’s just “ehhhwaahhhh!” because he can’t say words yet 🙂 But his dad and I call them “boobs” around him and refer to it as “boob milk” a lot.
My boys call them boobies. And when my youngest STILL wasn’t weaned when he was almost two he would request boobies. Not the most fun in public.
Simply “boobies!” She currently thinks they are for storing things but once she sees me feeding her brother that may change!
Chest but she calls nipples ‘buttons’.
I’m not sure what my 3yo calls them. I would guess boobies.
Boovies, with a v!
My toddler had a thing about having to have both boobs out to nurse. Awkward. We took to calling it “nursery buffet,” which became “eesey buffet” once she learned how to talk. Boobs are still called eeseys in our house.
We use the words breasts and nipples. My girls think it’s funny that daddy has nipples too.
This is the perfect book for my boob-loving girl! My 15-month old calls them boobs or she points to them & says, “mama” when she wants milk. 😀
Great post!
Boobs or boobies. And since we have a newborn in the house, my 3 and 5 year olds say, “she’s gonna eat your boobs.” Well, no, she’s drinking my milk, but whatever! Ha ha
My older kids call them “mommy milk makers” and the baby calls them “nom nom”
The good ole nip nips.
Night-nights Because I always breast fed him to sleep.
My son calls them “night nights” because he associated nursing with going night night. He’s three and still calls them that.
My boys call them boobies.
MILKIES 💦💦
My two-year-old just refers to them as “feed Toby?” Aka the things I use to feed his 10-week-old baby brother.
My girls call them “boo-boos”
In our house, we call boobs either “boobies” or “la las” in the context of nursing 😂
When I was pregnant I explained to my son that I had a baby growing in my belly. A couple days later he poked my boob and called it my squisy belly. 😂😂😂 Now he just calls them boobs.. Although my belly is apparently still squishy.
Boobs. But hard to understand over the laughter
Chi-chis! It’s the most fun!
My 2 year old twins hollar nurse.
My eight year old son cannot bring himself to say the word “breasts” or even “boobs”. He gets all flustered even trying to call them anything (which is odd because we’ve never made a big deal out of naming any body parts). He did once refer to them as my “front pillows”. My five year old son is uninterested and never refers to them at all. I have no idea what he would call them.
They are called mommy baaaks at our house, my sweet gir yells for “Mommy Baaak” when she wants to nurse, as opposed to “Brrr Baaak” or cold milk from the fridge.
My twins call them “hunnn geeeee” but of course they are 5 months old..
My 3 year old calls them Momma milk.
My 10 year old called them boobahs for the longest time!
All breastfed!!
“boobies”… but it sounds more like “oooh-ies” when my daughter says it. consonants are hard.
When I was nursing my daughter, she just called them boob, now that I am nursing her baby brother she call them boobies!
Little one isn’t saying much yet at 9 months, but she has a very distinctive non stop ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma as she stares at my chest. Ha!
Momo. My oldest started it when he was nursing and then passed the name down to his sister since he’d say it when she was nursing. She’s done nursing but still calls mine, and her own, momos!
My daughter (15m) just calls them “pleeeeeeeeaaaseee” whenever she wants boobs. We are working on her asking for it versus just grabbing so she is a tad confused on what that means.
Baby B doesn’t really say have a word for when he wants to eat….but he gets really really excited and kicks his legs, gets a big old smile of his lil 5 month face, and forcibly will put pull down the shirt. I say the shirt since it doesn’t matter who’s holding him….he knows what he wants. He wants a snack
She calls them boobs…. but they are the force of great fascination lately because she has a newborn brother.
Unfortunately, breastfeeding didn’t work for us — so my 2yo daughter is fairly new to that body part. She calls them boobs — but is mostly fascinated with walking around with mommy’s bras! *facepalm*
15 week old can’t talk yet but he sure makes it known when he wants the boob!
My 3yr old calls them water balloons
My daughter doesn’t talk yet, but I am teaching her sign language and boobs or milk from mom’s boobs is the sign of squeezing both hands (like milking a cow, lol). And sometimes a loud yell. 7 months breastfeeding and it feels like a million years. Lol! Love this book!
So funny! My 2 girls are talkin bout boobs lots lately with my littlest still being 3 weeks old. They call them nibbles 😂 Because i also correct them when they reference their boobs (which they do not have at 3 and 5 yrs old!)
My daughter calls them ‘bubs’
Boobies and teticas
My four year old daughter calls them “bops” and she tells me she can’t wait to wear my bras when she’s bigger😂
Meingies, she’s called them that since she was small and nursing.
Tite 😂
First time mom here! My son is 4 months old, so no talking yet. On many occasions, our son has turned towards my husband’s chest as if he’s about to nurse while my husband is holding him. If only my husband had boobs! 😂
Titties. You can thank my mom for that one.
My three year old son calls them “moobs”! My two month old calls them “waaaahhhh” haha
My son called them “leche”… Spanish word for milk haha
I think I’m going to let my baby on the way do the same because it was just so cute when my son said it 🙂
We refer to them as “boobies”…
My 22 month old calls them “boobies.” I taught her that by said it like a fogging “booo-beeees.” I’m going to find and tag you in the video. I. Want. That. Book! LOVE!!
My four year old calls them boobies & my eight month old obviously doesn’t call them anything yet- just sees them as an open 24/7 milk bar!
My boys call them boobs/boobies. They are amazed whenever they see me pumping milk for their baby brother. They want to know why daddy can’t pump, after all he does have nipples! My middle son wanted to try on my bra today, he called it a boob lifter! The things they say about boobs cracks me up
My 3 year old calls them boobies. My 16 month old calls them boo bah.
He doesnt call them anything yet since he doesnt really talk much but he definently knows what boobs are for and thinks my husband has them too lol
My 16 month calls them ‘boobs’ or ‘my boobs’ if he’s decided that Dad is getting too close lol
My toddler calls them “agua” since we are still breastfeeding and he insist that I’m feeding him water instead of milk.
It’s not so much a word as it is a smack to the boob area in response to “do you want boobah?” He’s 16 months and counting.
And just because this makes me giggle every time… “what kind of bee makes milk?” “Boobies!!!”
My long weaned 4 year old is still obsessed with my chest. He used to say “gung” when he wanted to nurse before he had words, maybe because I would ask him if he was hungry? Now he calls breasts breasts and nipples mipples (which is aborable). During the 108 step process of weaning him, he would try to play with my nipples while cuddling with me and I would pull his hand away, which made him yell “I was using it!” Now whenever baby brother cries he says “He wants to eat mipples!”.
My son says “boobieeeeeesss”
So, we use – boo-boo nom-noms! Whenever I lay my little lady down ready for her ‘boo-boo nom noms’ she laugh/cries!
Niblets 🙂
“Mommy parts”
The 4yo calls them “roundies” and the 2yo calls them “nee-nee” which sends 4yo into hysterics. I’m expecting my next baby (August 23rd) so I’d love to win that book!
Oh, man, this reminds me that my parents used to have a giant crochet boob pillow on their bed. Like, when you lay down to relax your head could fit between the boobs. Wonder what ever happened to that thing!
My daughter says “les seins” which is the usual word in French… and sometimes the baby-ish word “les gougouttes”, which really annoys me 😉 I would translate to “the drop-drops” in English… annoying, right ?
Thank you for your blog ! As a Parisian mum, I sometimes feel closer to your overseas family life than to the life of some French families outside Paris !
My 2 year old has come up with bootles. I think he looks at them as a cross between boobs and his in-between bottles. My 4 year old used to call them boobalahs.
They use “boobies”, which is quite funny as we soeak french at home… the advantage is that outside people do not necessarily understand what they’re talking aboit, which makes it more discreet 😉
My 21-month-old, still nursing daughter calls my Boobs … “the boo boos”.
My two year old calls boobs “yummies” (always loudly of course) in the context of feeding my infant.
Milkies! She can’t talk yet but she sure understands that one.
Milkies! She can’t talk yet but she sure understands that one. 🍼