Dear Friends,
Last night I had a very interesting house call with a woman who is not
producing any milk (but that is not the subject of this letter. )  We were
speaking Hebrew.  I asked her, in Hebrew, when she last breastfed her baby.
She replied that she hadn't breastfed her baby since no milk came out when
he sucked.  I explained to her that I meant, when is the last time she had
put her baby to the breast, baby latched on and sucked...  That she had
done.  It seems that there is something in the Hebrew word for breastfeeding
that specifically implies the transfer of food.  Another young mother who
nursed her toddler throughout her second pregnancy told me that she had
stopped breastfeeding several months earlier when in fact she was still
breastfeeding but since she had no more milk she didn't call it (again in
Hebrew) breastfeeding.  Indeed the English word breastfeeding also implies
food and only food.  I know that this has been discussed before on lactnet,
but last night really drove home for me how important the word "nursing" is
for all the things it implies besides food.
Maybe we need to invent a new word in Hebrew though I love the old one,
since it has the same root as baby, which you would think would make it
obvious what babies are supposed to be doing.
All the best,
Chayn in Israel IBCLC

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