Neuroprotective Developmental Care (or the Possums programs) uses destigmatised language to describe women's bodies

A woman centred approach which counters weight stigma has been a fundamental part of the NDC approach to breastfeeding and lactation from the beginning of the development of the programs. To avoid body stigma, NDC uses carefully chosen words to describe women's bodies, such as generous or delicate or petite to describe breast size, landing pad and breast-tummy contour to describe physical configurations, and goes back to the research to celebrate the wide range of anatomical and functional variation which characterises normal women's bodies.

This woman-centred NDC approach to breastfeeding medicine avoids weight or body stigma by ensuring that…