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We don't necessarily say to mothers everything we say to each other
here - of course we wouldn't say to someone feeding her baby EBM (for
whatever reason) 'you are not breastfeeding'....I can't imagine an
appropriate reason for us giving any definition to her, except to
echo one she used herself... apart from Jean's excellent idea of
'direct' and 'indirect' bf, or my own term, 'feeding your own
expressed breastmilk', none of which sound to me judgmental.

But we need to know among ourselves, in our written work, too, what
we are talking about, and to have some consistency.  That's the only
way we can maintain clarity....heavens, there's enough potential for
misunderstanding, even among those of us whose first language is
English, without adding to it ; )

Feeding EBM is not the physiological or psychological norm for the species.

And that's a fact : )

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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