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Random Poll: "Eating" vs. "Drinking?"

aml+japanaml+japan member
edited July 2014 in April 2014 Moms
Which word do you use in reference to feeding your baby (bottles or nursing)?

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Random Poll: "Eating" or "Drinking?" 191 votes

My LO drinks his/her meals.
5% 10 votes
My LO eats his/her meals.
88% 169 votes
SS
6% 12 votes
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Re: Random Poll: "Eating" vs. "Drinking?"

  • MamaFantasticMamaFantastic member
    most of the time i would say "tessa needs to eat" but sometimes i tell kiddo "tessa's drinking her milkies" (ridiculous name, i know....  it's leftover from his word for breastmilk at a year and a half).  drinking is only said in that exact phrasing.  anything else is eating or nursing.
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  • kalettekalette member
    I use both. But I agree with the above poster, you will never here me using the word "feed". It sounds so carnal. I also get grossed out when there is a "spaghetti feed" or "pancake feed" advertised. Like,could you make it sound any more like a bunch of people lined up at a communal trough, stuffing their faces. I'll pass.
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  • PoppySeedWindsorPoppySeedWindsor member
    I don't like the word 'feed.' It makes me feel like a trough. We typically say 'nurse.'
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  • olenkapdxolenkapdx member
    MamaFantastic said:
    most of the time i would say "tessa needs to eat" but sometimes i tell kiddo "tessa's drinking her milkies" (ridiculous name, i know....  it's leftover from his word for breastmilk at a year and a half).  drinking is only said in that exact phrasing.  anything else is eating or nursing.
    Hehe, I say "milkies" too.   I blame my mom and my sister...everything has -ies at the end.  Whoopsies!
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    Needs some noms. Teehee @MLC912. I love that one!
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  • strawberrytreestrawberrytree member
    My DS calls nursing "noonoo", so I usually say it's time for baby to have his noonoo. When I talk to adults I say he needs to eat or nurse.

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  • hpanabakerhpanabaker member
    Both
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  • Nik102Nik102 member
    I always say I'm feeding the pig. When DS is nursing I will say " here pig pig pig" he loves it and cracks up every time.
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  • ksulliksulli member
    I hate calling them "feedings".

    But I'm SS: if she's nursing, she's eating. If it's a bottle, she's drinking. Same stuff either way, but I call it different things. Never realized it until the poll though.
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  • steph1977steph1977 member
    LalaMama81 said:

    We EBF and I say, "Jack needs to eat," or "Time to feed/nurse Jack." 


    I don't call them "feeds." I hate that term.
    This exactly. I even have a Jack!
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  • ashcole28ashcole28 member
    I say "she's getting hungry" but I also say "she's drinking her bottle" so I guess both.
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  • LaNorteLaNorte member
    edited July 2014
    SS because we say both. I also hate calling it a "feed", makes him sound like livestock.
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