Good point (Anne? I forgot....) about child being ABLE to vocalize what he wants. We sometimes forget in our busy lives as moms that our kids are people, and that people, even little ones, have this - oh, I'll go so far as to call it a NEED - to control their surroundings. "Breastfeed" is hard to say, "nuss" is a lot easier. I'll never forget when I was working on a kibbutz and taking care of 10 toddlers. One was the son of a woman I knew very well (a very controlling person). This kid was a very difficult personality UNTIL THE DAY that he learned how to walk unassisted. This mastery of a skill seemed to turn his whole personality around and he became a much sunnier kid. To get back to the subject, I'm all for bringing breasts out of the chamisole closet, but let's always think first about our kids - don't eliminate the easier-to-pronounce word from our vocabularies and make it harder for them to be "in control" of expressing their needs. My opinion - anyone else? Judy K