Diane Weissinger wrote: > What do other mammals do with their young? They don't "breastfeed." Do > they nurse? Suckle? Something else? In the US I think we'd say they > nurse. What about other English-speaking countries? "Here's a picture of a > dog _____ing its puppies." > I think we'd say, here, "feeding" or "suckling" in the case of an animal. "Nursing" sort of implies having arms to do it. I can remember when - just as our mothers told us "animals sweat, ladies perspire" - animals suckled their young and human mothers breastfed. As late as 1968 in Townsville, a daunting midwife who was clearly anti-breastfeeding, spat at me the question: "Do you *suckle* your babies?" Obviously she thought it animalian. Cheers, Virginia in sunny Brisbane, Queensland *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html