Karen Gromada writes:
"I'd like to see us come up with a term that is distinct to our discipline.
I tend to use "cue-based," "baby-led" or "physiological" bottle-feeding."

Interesting notion!   I've always liked "paced," and have used that term for
so long I don't know where I first heard it.  I assumed it was in Dee
Kassing's great JHL article on the topic .... but I just went and re-read
it, and she never uses the term "paced."  Indeed, the article refers to the
"Kassing Method" for using a bottle to offer supplements.  At any rate, I am
willing to take Karen's word for it that this term has implications in other
disciplines that the care-giver is the one doing the pacing, not the person
being cared-for.

I think I'd go for "baby-led bottle-feeding" because that best describes who
is in charge.  "Physiological bottle-feeding," to me, is a term that
re-inforces the notion that bottle-feeding is, in fact, or biologically (or
physiologically) appropriate.  I think the words "cues," frankly, is a term
favored by IBCLCs but unfamiliar outside our discipline.  When I use that
term in class, I am usually greeted with a furrowed brow.  When I explain
that "cues" mean the baby is saying "pick me up and offer the breast," then
I get those nods of understanding.  [And just Stay Your Hands, all ye who
are going to snark about the notion that the baby needs to be picked up at
all, rather than already being skin-to-skin or in parental arms.  Remember
the context:  I am speaking to pregnant mothers in a class.  I am sprinkling
notions of attachment throughout the class.  This is one of them.]

--
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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