I, too, heard a report on the local news about the statistics of nursing
women. It stated that women of higher social classes and higher educations
were likely to breastfeed and to do so for longer than women of lower social
classes and education levels.  I once read a joke about women being measured
in numbers (weight, height, breast and waist sizes etc.).  It said something
along the lines that these are just numbers ... and that statistics are
numbers and as we all know, statistics lie.  IMO ... there are exceptions to
every rule.

In reading the threads on this topic I took to my "handy-dandy" Oxford
Dictionary.  It states in likeness to the thoughts I have attatched below.
It's definition of breast-feeding is "to feed a baby at the breast.".  The
definition of nursing is "... 2. feed or be fed at the breast. 3. hold or
treat carefully. 4. a)foster or promote the development of. ..."

Just some intersting nicey bits ...

Jodi Barnard
Ladner, British Columbia
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"But as Diane says, there is so
much more to it.  I both use and explain the language
("breast feeding" vs nursing) with almost every call
or consult.  Consider how many breastfeeding
challenges can be met or eased with an understanding
of the difference!"

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