Magda said: "I am in total agreement with the sentiment about the
difference, but the word nursing, to my ears -- the ears of someone who left
the US at the age of 20 ... nursing conjures up bedpans, thermometers, white
dresses ..."

I too hear this connotation for nursing first. Several years (read ~ 13
years - before I was even pregnant for my first child) a nurse colleague and
mother of a 6 month old told me that she was too run down, and had caught a
cold so she was going to stop nursing. I was shocked that she would quit her
job just because she caught a cold. Of course, she meant she was going to
wean her baby.

Joan
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Joan MacNeil, RN, BScN, IBCLC, PNC(C)
Halifax NS Canada
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