Mt last words on this subject, the exhange about which I have loved, is  
something that made my father (father to 8 breastfed children) , a wordsmith,  
howl with laughter.  My 10 lb. birthweight son (nicknamed Baby  Buddha) nursed 
only on one breast ever at any nursing in all the years he  nursed.  As an 
adolescent, he told his friends who were sampling a new  sweetened  iced tea, that 
the best thing he had ever tasted in his life was  breastmilk,  The 
conversation among the high school boys turned to how to  test, market and sell 
something that tasted that good.  There was laughter  and hooting involved. Coming to 
our house was interesting to many of our kids  friends, as I am sure is the 
case for most of you.  I once found those boys  experimenting with a breast 
pump. I'm sure that I shouldn't send that out into  cyberspace!  Anyway, it was my 
daughter Susan who made my dad laugh so hard  when she very clearly said 
"Utter side" in cuiing to switch sides.  Susan  and her little friend Kristie were 
playing with their dolls one day while we  moms were having a spot of tea.  
Kristie stopped the playing by saying to  Susan "I feel like nursing, do you?  
Let's go!"  They are 35 now,  nursing mothers themselves and they still laugh 
about that conversation.  
As professional and credentialed as we are, it is validating to share such  
stories, leveling our private memories to a quite universal status among people 
 for whom this was and is cultural norm.  For those for whom it was not the  
norm to see their mother or aunties nurse, or to nurse their own dolls, etc., 
it  is a view into the social and emotional life of those of us who aquired 
the  passion through our familial history.  I hope that makes it more difficult  
to see it all as odd.  Women bashing other women continues to plague the  
breastfeeding/artificial feeding population.  Perhaps "out of the mouth of  
babes--nursing babes"  will add a bit of humor and hence, understanding to  the 
subject.
Jeanne Rago



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