Hola Yaffita: (your name with the spanish diminuitive...do you mind?) >And the word *nursing* does conotate a loving and warm >nurturing. How do the rest of you feel about this? To me Breastfeeding is: the 'scientific nuts+bolts', technical know-how, the act of literally feeding our young. While nursing implies, as you say above, 'nurturing', caring, cuddling, way beyond the simple act of transfering a highly nutritive foodstuff. After all, what are we talking about when we speak of NON-nutritive sucking? Roberta