This study is configured as a philosophical-theorical essay about the practice of teaching and educating mothers who are breastfeeding and is based on our professional daily activity and on the concept of alterity developed by Emmanuel Levinas. It broughts to light the disturbance that fill our minds in the search for something bigger in the sense of establishing a mutual obligation in the caring of women that experience the nursing process. We belive that alterity is a fundamental ethical criterion that when removed from care relations disturbs the dialogue and caring may not be effective, because the dominant thinking of normality eliminates the nursing-mother being, establishing a priori, the thinking manner to live a given situation.
Breast feeding; Maternal behavior; personal autonomy