From my observations beginning in childhood watching farm animals
andpets,
baby mammals bunt their mother's dugs.  Bunt and dug are words
youhardly ever
hear now, beautiful old-fashioned words used by countryfolk.  Lambs are
fantastic bunters, it always makes me wince because they thud
theirmother's
dugs/udders in such a forceful manner.  It must be to
elicit/stimulatemoremilk.

Hence th4e "nipple twiddling" that so many of us put up with from our
"older nurslings".

We visited the farm at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago this summer and
watched a brown Swiss cow be milked.  Periodically the milker- sort of
a rough, non-sentimental appearing woman- would massage the udder with
the flat of her hand.  It was such a soothing thing to watch that I
could feel how *my* milk would respond if it were me.

Why do we usually only hear about cows wrt negative ideas about
initiating breastfeeding?  No one ever says, "no, I'm not going to
nurse because I don't want to feel like a queen cat (or a mouse)".
It's always cow.

Musing on the societal attitudes in the US- one of the many that can
cause problems for mothers.

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Kate Hallberg, mom to Ursula (11-23-94) and Sage (4-13-97)
Palo Alto, California, on the West Coast Home page- http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/
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