As Jan Cornfoot suggests, it would be helpful if we referred to breastfeeding
( one word) rather than "nursing".  I submitted an artilce several years ago
entitled " What do Nurses Know About Nursing?" and had to change the title to
have it published.  More recently, I was told that animal nurse with teats but
humans breastfed with breasts.  In a newspaper article describing World
Breastfeeding Week and our local consortium's efforts to celebrate it, I
carefully cheked the artilce so I would not have to hyphenate breastfeeding.
No such luck, the proof reader and rewrite person carefully hyphenated breast-
feeding every place he could.
Barbara Hayes