Forgot to tell everyone about the origin of the word Medela... We had been looking for it somewhere in Ocotber-November... I asked the national representative of the company while I was in Vancouver at the National launching of the Canadian Baby-Friendly Initiative... Apparently, it is a man-made (sic!! woman-made?) name. They were looking for something that sounded an international name, and that would sound not too medical but medical enough...hum! So stop the search...the word is not coming from Latin or Greek or anything like that! Sincerely. Louise Louise Dumas, R.N., M.S.N., PhD Professor-researcher in Nursing Sciences University of Quebec in Hull (Western Quebec) mailto:[log in to unmask]