Lactnetters,
just musing, but I've noticed that Americans talk about babies "eating"
when they mean breast or bottle feeding, whilst in the UK, we talk about
"feeding" or even "drinking" (hence, a UK mother might say "He started
eating at 4mo"). Ofcourse, we talk about "breastfeeding" rather than
"nursing" ("nursing" to us is simply comforting a baby) and "baby milk"
rather than "formula". Do you think the different use of language
reflects a difference in attitudes to infant feeding? I wonder about the
British tendancy to say babies "feed" rather than "eat", coupled with
our tendancy to start babies on so-called "solids" at 6 weeks old?
--
Anna H. Breastfeeding advocate and writer
http://www.ratbag.demon.co.uk/anna/

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