Hi Christina,
Very good points you make! I'm with you and would even like to add
something. In 'translactation', we have the word 'trans', which means
'across' or 'from one to the other'.
This does indeed sound weird, if the process is meant to be defined the way
Sonya understood it.
I haven't gotten around to reading the JHL cover to cover (read the letters
to the editor, though... ;o)... I'm there! hahaha), so I will do that, but
so far I share the question marks Christina has posed.
We should only speak about relactation, I would think, when the milk was
gone and is being brought back. If we start messing ourselves with
terminology, what will the less knowledgeable do...?
Christina, I don't think there is much amiss with your English... I'm not a
native speaker either and many who read lactation literature are not, so I
think wording is important.
Warmly,
Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands (and happy that after a lot of
heavily knocking on the door, the professional lc organisation is now
dealing with the WHO-code issue, even though the question is 'funny':
"Should we follow it or not? What do you all think?")
----- Original Message -----
From: "hris" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] What is translactation?
Well, maybe me being a linguist and not native, nor fluent in English is a
reason these new deffinitions are rubbing me the wrong way, but - how is
lactation defined?
As far as my understanding goes, lactation is the process in which the
breasts make milk and does not equal breastfeeding. So the mother is
lactating and her breasts are lactationg too. What has this to do with by
which method this milk is being
transfered to the infant? The breasts are still lactating even if the infant
is getting milk via SNS - and the infant is on the breast, doing
BREASTfeeding, and not lactating. So is this lactation or translactation
happening in mother's breasts, if her baby is not breastfeeding?!
And what about relactation? If the mother is having milk, but it is not
enough and the baby needs to have supplements, offered by a SNS, why should
this be called relactation?!
I have not read the article and perhaps that's why the whole thing sounds
mysterious to me, but I thought I might share what I am thinking and see if
someone is maybe wondering the same.
Christina Yaneva
BF Peer Councellor
Bulgaria
--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Sonya Myles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sonya Myles <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: What is translactation?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:22 PM
> From the latest JHL, in which there
> was an article on translactation, it is when you use a
> lactation aid at the breast with the mothers own milk.
> Relactation is described as using a lactation aid at the
> breast with ABM, and translactation is described as using a
> lactation aid at the breast with EBM. I hope this helps, I
> had not heard the term before either.
>
>
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