Hi All.  Martha Pitzer wrote this in a note to me earlier in the summer
(hope you don't mind my sharing  :-) )

By the way, I heard Michael Woolridge at the ILCA conference. He doesn't
believe it is "nipple confusion or preference" he calls it "nipple
addiction" because rubber nipples, pacifiers, even human fingers are a
SUPER STIMULUS compared to the soft malleable breast. I found his arguement
rather convincing.

  It seems a nice way to put a "negative" spin on rubble nipples without it
reflecting back at BF.  Who would want their baby "addicted?"  Thus the
slant automatically swings toward BF.  (I must say, however, that my son
would suck on anything, and none of us would have had a moments peace
without him sucking on our fingers *occasionally*.)  Anyway, this may be a
useful term instead of nipple "confusion."

Linda Volkovitsch
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