At 11:49 AM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
>I read this article and what struck me as odd, is that no where in the 
>interview does anyone mention or ask what is meant by the titles by-line.
>"You've got to stop breastfeeding the world and take care of you" By 
>Tamara Ikenberg
>My guess is that they meant it as some kind of metaphor for women, meaning 
>that women need to stop taking care of everyone else and take care of 
>themselves.

The expression that I have heard is that women shouldn't try to be a "we 
nurse" to the entire world.  Some of us need that reminder and others 
don't.  I have never heard "breastfeeding" as a replacement for "wet nurse."

It doesn't say that we shouldn't wet nurse *some* of the world, just not 
all of it.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

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