The trouble is that "nursing" is a term that is restricted to a small
portion of the English speaking world (is it used with any consistency
outside N America?) and I can't see it gaining any popularity in Australia.
Our mother-to-mother breastfeeding support group was the Nursing Mothers
Assoc for 35 years (nursing was used because you coun't have "breastfeeding"
in the telephone book!) and breastfeeding has never been "nursing" in any
context other than the name. I think the problem is that we don't give
enough recognition to the non-nutritional aspects of breastfeeding, we
overemphasise the significance of breastmilk but I think it is easier to
consider non-nutritive breastfeeding than breast feeding.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


> what I felt intuitively was that my daughter who will be 3 in Dec and has
weaned and relacted mutliple
> times and who never wanted pumped breast milk from any sort of container
or a
> pacifier etc... does not FEED at my breast she NURSES! and gosh when its
my own
> daughter, I'll use whatever word I like-
> maybe its the word "breastfeeding" thats problematic- why people can't
> understand extended "nursing" or adoptive breastfeeding or even
breastfeeding
> after starting solids or after 1 yr- maybe we should call it
"breastnursing" or
> simply "suckling at the breast"
>

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