Dear Friends;
    This discussion about the term breastfeeding and  its application to
mothers pumping and bottle feeding EBM makes me think of my  friend who prefaced
any discussion of her new baby by saying "My IVF-baby" until  I asked her why.
She is a mother who got pregnant, carried a baby, and had a  lovely homebirth.
The IVF part is only of interest to her, to her husband and to  her doctor.
    Even so with breastfeeding and  'EBM-feeding'......seems like those terms
would only be necessary for the mother  and her lactation professional.
    I've known of adoptive mothers, exclusively  breastfeeding (with a
supplemental device at breast) to be treated shabbily at  nursing mother's meetings.
I've also seen their babies act like breastfed  babies, no matter what was in
the tube.
    Our sphere of loving suppport is threatened enough  by outside forces;
why challenge it from within?
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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