>This discussion reminds me of how American I have become.  
>When I grew up in Australia if you wanted to hold some one's 
>baby you would ask " Oh can I nurse him / her"? meaning just 
>to hold the baby in your lap (and perhaps feed it the bottle). 
> Now of course since living in the US nursing a baby is 
>synonomous with breastfeeding and I would certainly do a 
>double-take if I heard a man or a child ask if they could 
>"nurse" the baby.

Oh, this takes me back!  Not to Australia but to rural Southern Ontario.
This is how my mother, grandmother and aunts referred to holding and
cuddling a baby.  I have heard "nurse" used this way in a long while.

Judith

Judith Hayman, RN, IBCLC, BSc, BScN
Public Health Nurse & Lactation Consultant

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