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Maureen Minchin <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 9 Sep 1998 01:41:25 +1100
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>I believe that our continual use of any term with "feeding"
in it, devalues almost everything else that is going on between that mother
and baby.<

Nancy, what would you suggest then? We write breastfeeding as one word
because it is a unique and special action involving breasts nutrition and
and nurture. there is simply no such thing as non-nutritive suckling in
abreast-fed baby: it's nutritive in many ways and via many means. I prefer
"breastfeeding" infinitely more than "nursing" as in "nursing homes",
nursing journals, nursing a grudge, and the rest. If we are to use any
other word, it needs to be better than breastfeeding.

Maureen Minchin, IBCLC. Christ Church Vicarage, 14 Acland St., St.Kilda,
Vic. 3182 Australia. tel/fax: 61 3 9537 2640
"Taking paths of least resistance is what makes rivers - and people -
crooked." poster in Palmerston North NZ bookshop...

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