Melissa:

In Spanish you have:
1. Amamantamiento = Breastfeeding
2. Amamantar = to breastfeed (the infinitive, for you grammar-holics)
3. Dar seno-materno = to give maternal (or mother's) breast

NOTE: I have seen this term on ped. instructions on infant's hospital
charts as an indication to the nurses that they shouldn't give a bottle of
ABM

4. Dar el pecho = also, to give the breast (seno and pecho are almost
interchangeable)

Locally, in the maya language, the word "CHUCHU" means almost synonomously
the breast, to give the breast and the act of breastfeeding.

They say, "the baby is making/doing chuchu" (he really is working at it!)
and the mother will say, "I'm giving chuchu"
Also, the breast, itself, is referred to as your 'chuchu'.

When women in the villages are asked if they are giving 'chuchu' they will
often reply: "Si, y tambien doy leche."  which sadly means, "Oh, yes, I am
giving chuchu, but I'm also giving the baby milk. (ABM) which makes you
wonder what the heck they think is coming out of those two things on their
chests....coke?

JOKE TIME: If indigenous people are Native-Americans
         and black people are Afro-Americans.....
        are women 'Breasted' Americans?

sorry, folks.

And finally, let me say that since the word 'chuchu' is used in Yucatan by
both high and lower classes...when I give my talks to hospital staffs, on
T.V., radio, etc.  I always say that my ped. and gyn-ob friends tell me
that since I am an expert in Lactation (chuchu) then it follows that I may
be called a Chuchologist....meaning an expert in Chuchulogy. Right?  This
always brings a hearty laugh from the audience and the ice is not only
broken - it is crushed.

Talk to you soon!

Happy chuchu-ing to all you with babes at the chuchu.

P.S. SAD NEWS. Tonight at the grocery store I ran into a ped. who told me
he and the other super champion BFHI neonat. that I work closely with (the
KMM WHO study guy) sat together on a thesis review for a graduating medical
student.
The thesis showed that in rural Yucatan now over 80% of village women are
*not* nursing completely at (cover your ears) ONE MONTH. This is the
tragedy we are facing. Remember, we're talking rural, native mayan here.
He was very saddened by these statistics, to say the least.

So was I......so was I.