Hi Jane,

first time on your website (I'm a bit slow....) and it looks great. Thanks! I'm a longtime LLL Leader in Oregon.

My first child dubbed nursing "seece" - I assume that's what she heard or the only way she could say it at age one. Thankfully it stuck so we could be discreet for years!

My next one called it "sideys" - and she claims to remember not liking a particular side once it got wet, so she would request to change sides - hence, sideys.

1 is now married, working and pregnant and #2 is in college. Both are weaned! Hang in there, dear mothers of nursing toddlers.

Thanks for an interesting column.

I had read/heard stories about little ones shouting out embarrasing names for it before my daughter could talk, so I very intentionally taught her to call it "Side". It's very easy to ask her "Do you want a side?", or for her to call out "SIDE!" without embarrassing anyone, including myself. And when she finishes the first, she does ask for "other side".

My son called nursing "side side" because I would ask him if he wanted to switch to the other side. He couldn't say his s's so it sounded more like "shide shide."

My youngest daughter used to just guide me to a chair. My middle son used to just pull up my shirt, something I got so used to I didn't notice until I saw my brothers wedding photos. Fran stopped breastfeeding when she was 3 when someone said it was milk, milk she said I don''t like milk and stopped just like that.

My girls called it "snacks." I nursed my two year old until I was half way through my second pregnancy, right about when I found out I was having twins! I also nursed the twins for two years. They are six and eight and I'm considering becoming a lactation consultant.

My 6-year-old daughter decided that Josephine (now 6 months) didn''t call it her "booby" (as I called it) but her "suck-suck".

My 2 year old calls breastfeeding "Gimme summa milk!" or "I need some!"