# My baby gave me a hickey! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929 "2013-01-31T17:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/1 "2013-01-31T17:07:54Z")
Lil’ Neville is breastfeeding. She will sometimes let me know it is time to feed her by trying to latch onto my arm. Last week, she did this while a service person was here. I couldn’t get away to feed her right away, so I let her suck on my arm a bit. Afterward, I noticed a red mark where she had been latching onto my arm. She gave me a hickey by trying to nurse on my arm. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/2 "2013-01-31T17:37:38Z")
Is this a sneak brag? I can’t tell. Maybe put her fingers in her mouth next time? You don’t want folk to think you’re using leech therapy in this day and age. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/3 "2013-01-31T17:47:57Z")
It’s a weird thing that I never imagined would happen before I became a parent. Spitting up, crying, and diaper blowouts- I knew those would happen. Hickeys, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/4 "2013-01-31T18:25:13Z")
The boy used to bite my arm. For a while I had a set of bruises on my upper arm that looked exactly like bruises would if someone had grabbed my arm really hard. My sis (works as a nurse in children’s emerg) said if I had come in to the hospital like that someone would have had them talk to me about abuse. “But, but - my baby bites me! See, you hold him! See!” ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/5 "2013-01-31T19:08:19Z")
Hahaaaa, my daughter used to do that to me too. Hickeys I mean, not biting. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/6 "2013-01-31T23:57:08Z")
This is pretty mild all things considered. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/7 "2013-02-01T02:00:20Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > This is pretty mild all things considered. True, it’s not like she got you pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/8 "2013-02-01T02:09:18Z")
Wait until the moment your child vomits, and instead of dodging, you reach out and try to catch the vomit in your bare hand. That’s motherhood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-gave-me-a-hickey/648929/9 "2013-02-01T13:29:57Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Wait until the moment your child vomits, and instead of dodging, you reach out and try to catch the vomit in your bare hand. That’s motherhood. 😉 Or say, 'Well, at least it all landed only on my shirt, thank God!"