Hi, All:  In the South (US) especially, "sugar tits or titties", were a common 
name for cloth dipped in honey or cow's or goat's milk used to feed a baby if 
the mother or a wet nurse was unavailable.  The care giver held the cloth up 
to the baby's mouth and allowed the baby to suck on it to get the honey or 
milk.  Obviously, in this day and age honey is no longer recommended for 
babies under a year of age.  But this practice is probably one of the origins of 
the phrase: baby needs a "tit or titty".
I still remember the time I was talking to a good friend over the phone when 
her daughter was 3 (she's 21 now and newly married) could be heard in the 
background screaming:  "Tea!  Tea!"  I asked my friend why her daughter was 
asking for tea.  She laughed and said that she was asking for "titty".  That 
was her baby's code word for nursing!


Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL    USA

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