Not everyone who uses a paci is a lazy mum.
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From: Lactation Information and Discussion
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Virginia G Thorley
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:23 PM
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Subject: terminology - "milk"
Pat Young:
As regards types of milk, I've probably said before, and I'm sure to
say again, that it annoys me to see all the rows of bovine milk, manipulated
in various ways (full cream, low fat, high calcium, and all their ilk),
every one of them labelled "Milk". Other milk on sale is labelled "soy
milk" ("milk"???) or "goat milk". Cheese, similarly, is labelled just
"cheese" if it is bovine, and "goat chees" or "sheep cheese" if it comes
from these animals. The message is: bovine stuff is the norm.
If we talk of human milk, our culture makes us specify this, and call it
"breastmilk" or "mother's milk" or "human milk". So a baby having
physiologically unnatural stuff is receiving "milk", but a breastfed baby is
receiving "breastmilk". In an ideal world, we would be saying the breastfed
baby is receiving milk and the artificially-fed baby is receiving
"bovine-origin milk", and so on. Okay, I can't change the world, but I know
I can grumble to Lactnet!
Another use of terms which annoys me is "The baby is using the breast as
a dummy (pacifier)". Grrr!!! So entrenched is this idea, in this
dummy-using society (Australia), that sometimes when I gently correct the
mother and suggest that other babies are using the pacifier as a breast,
they look at me as if I'm crazy, or take offence. They just don't get the
point, the concept of an object separate from Mum as the vehicle for
non-nutritive sucking is so deeply entrenched. (Yes, I know, the pacifier
is also used when the poor little baby needs nutritive sucking, when Mums
want to space out feeds ... with all that ensues.)
Thanks for listening.
Virginia
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