I agree that nipple sandwich can be very confusing.

In Puerto Rico, there are so many fast-food places that I found it easy to
describe what I wanted the baby to do as : Have him open his mouth for a
"burger-king" sized breast sandwich rather than drinking breast milk from a
nipple "straw"...

Luckily, in Spanish, we use the term "dar el pecho" so I could stress that
we wanted to give the baby "pecho" (breast) and not "pezon" (Nipple).

Spanish was also easier in getting the baby to learn that AAAABRE -  meant
"open your mouth wide for the breast"  -  in English, OOOPEN - only gives a
small opening.  Maybe we should have all breastfed babies understand at
least this much Spanish???

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, IBCLC, LLLL
Vacaville, CA
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