On 19/09/2004, at 21:42, Amy Kotler wrote:

> yeah, I wanted to add that there are also mothers who say that they are
> "breastfeeding" and then you find out that they are actually not
> putting the
> baby to their breast- just pumping or expressing- so they are "breast
> MILK
> feeding" or human milk feeding

Once again, the topic of "but what shall we _call_ them? They're not
like us!" comes up on this list. While the distinction is important if
(and only if) you are the lactation consultant for this woman, is it
really important to you to distance these mums by forcing a different
label? Women who are compelled to express milk for babies who cannot
nurse usually feel quite abnormal enough already, without being
linguistically ostracised from the community of breastfeeding mothers
as well.

Dr Lara Hopkins
EPed for Luke, 14.5 months

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