Hi Merilee- on the 10th you said:  So yesterday I recieved a call from
a new Swiss
mother, I
had been recommended by this pediatrician!!  I never dreamed that I
would
be counseling in German!!  And, for some reason they don't cover
breastfeeding and childbirth words in the German courses  :)
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I had a similar experience when we went to visit Italy when my
daughter was 7 mos old.  A lot of Italians were surprised to see my
nursing such an "old" baby.  I quickly had to pick up a lot of words
to add to my limited Berlitz vocabulary to talk about my daughter, how
many teeth she had, that she was wearing sunblock, that she wouldn't
fall out of the sling,  that lots of women in the US nurse for three
years or more, that rich women nurse the longest (because (depending
on where we were) a lot of Italians said that only the Gypsies nursed
for more than a few weeks.)  I was really just beginning breastfeeding
advocacy then, and what a challenge to do so in a language that I
didn't really know.  I have no idea how to start in German, but I'll
certainly get a glossery from lactnet before I travel anywhere English
isn't spoken.  (I studied German in high school and could get by in a
lot of ways.)  Aber ich habe sehr viel vergessen.  :-)


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Kate Hallberg, mom to Ursula (wow! 4) and Sage (1.5)
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina
"It is the job of the physician to find health, anyone can find disease"
- A.T.Still, "Philosophy of Osteopathy",1886
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