Patricia, what a wonderful response on why the words breast and feeding should be merged into one word! Several months ago I attempted to convince our health agency public relations department to remove the hyphen in our WIC breastfeeding promotion materials. Besides the idea that merging the words implies a relationship and portrays breastfeeding as "normal" not set apart, I also pointed out that USDA and ILCA and nearly every book, journal, etc. spells breastfeeding as one word. And that hyphenating would also make our materials inconsistent with all of the WIC "Best Start" promotional campaign materials we were using. But no luck. The decision rendered was that because Webster's Dictionary spells it with a hyphen, our agency will continue to hyphenate the word. Any chance we could get Webster's to reevaluate their spelling of "breast-feeding"? Cathy Carothers, IBCLC