Dear friends:

I have been nomail for several weeks now, as I have been totally involved
in the relief actions related to Hurricane Mitch, plus doing some
monitoring of the requests for bottles, etc.

Right now, I would like to make a specific request and please email me
privately with your responses.  A friend is working on the translation of a
Spanish video on breastfeeding into English and she has requested a
translation for a pet, child's word in Spanish for breast.

Do we have one in English?  My response was that we had no real cultural
pet name for children.  Only some words with negative connotations such as
boobs, tits, etc., for adults.

Is there some word about which we could reach consensus that translates the
word "teta" in Spanish, which, spoken by children, becomes a loving word
for breast in childspeak.

Please either email me privately, or email Bibi Vogel in Argentina directly
and copy me.  She speaks English, so you can write to her directly
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In a day or so, I'll send the list an update on my original request for
help for Honduras, but at this point, I would like to send a general thank
you to all for the offers that we have received so far.

There has truly been devastation in biblical proportions, as Tipper Gore
put it in her report to the President.  Trying to achieve some coordination
and coherence in things like infant nutritional guidelines has been
difficult, but we are making some headway.

TIA for your support with this rather unusual request.

Judy


"La Lactancia Materna: Educación para la Vida " Semana Mundial de Lactancia
Materna, 1999

Judy Canahuati, MPhil, IBCLC
PO Box #512
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Telephone: +504-550-9737
Fax:       +504-550-7482
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