In einer eMail vom 8-9-2004 18:29:03 West-Europa (standaardtijd) schreibt
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Some people have posted on Lactnet that at one time in human  history,
breastfeeding was referred to as "feeding the baby." But some  unfortunate
trends were begun, and now we must be more specific for a few  generations.
Meanwhile, breastfeeding is closer to the experience than  breast feeding.
We have talked about "nursing" but that has its problems  too.  So we are
calling it breastfeeding in hopes that it will come  into common usage (and
common experience) and will again carry the concept  of nurturing the child.
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I love these linguistic topics.
Feeding the baby. In my mothertongue (Dutch) one can ask a mom: do you feed
your baby yourself? Meaning to ask if she is breastfeeding, because  before
the ? the non-said part of the sentence is "or do you bottle  feed.
About wordseparation. In Dutch it is breastfeeding <borstvoeding>,  always
been, although previous generations used the word  <zogen>, from the wordfamily
of sucking <zuigen>. But it is  "bottlefeeding" <flesvoeding> and
"artificialfeeding"  <kunstvoeding> in Dutch as well ...

I remember that in the early days LLLI choose for <nursing>, because
breastfeeding had that undecent B-word in it, that would scare people away. Is  that
thrue or a myth?


Warmly,

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, Dutch IBCLC in  Germany

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