Last night at work, I was talking care of a "non-English speaking" family...a culture that "breast and bottle feeds" their babes.
An entire room full of people...and no one would, could, (wanted to?) feed the baby...so, I stepped in.
Grabbed the bottle, because mama kept telling me, "no milk!" when I asked her about putting the baby to breast. (And, yes...I did educate her that, indeed, she had what the baby needed...)
So, I snuggled this babe in, and moved to stand against the wall (remember, I said "a room full of people? Yeah, not kidding. Room. FULL. of people.)
Night was falling...and one of the men in the room spoke very clear, very fluent English (I thought)...I was standing near him and he said,
"You'll nurse the baby tonight?"
Ahem...ahhhh, wha'? Me, "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that, what did you say?"
He, "Do you nurse the baby tonight?"
Lemme say, never in my 11 years of nursing have I been propos…