I thought this was a nice article (except for the hideous bottle graphic).

http://www.msnbc.com/news/257535.asp

Here are the first couple of paragraphs:

Joining the tribe of the milk makers

When breast milk comes in,
so does a whole new identity:
woman as perfect food factory

By Elizabeth Bobrick
SPECIAL TO MSNBC

Aug. 9 —  The miracle of life? Sorry, but that’s not what being pregnant
meant to me until my daughter actually made herself visible. Pregnancy for
me represented the miracle of the heretofore unknown: cleavage.  I went from
lady-in-waiting to Dairy Queen, with no lessons.

But there was another wonder quite literally in store: self-made milk. Four
days after Katie’s birth, something was springing eternal from the human
breast and it wasn’t just hope that I would someday learn to undo the flaps
on my nursing bra with one hand. It was nature’s most perfect food. I went
from lady-in-waiting to Dairy Queen, with no lessons.

There are few experiences to compare with the sight of measurable amounts of
one’s own milk. The first time I put my house-brand staff of life into a
little container instead of directly into the baby’s mouth, I was thrilled.
I ran downstairs waving the little plastic jar over my head. “Look at this!”
I yelled to the guy who had done his long-ago, totally pleasurable part in
making it all possible. “Four whole ounces! Four whole ounces!” My husband
looked more baffled than impressed, a protective coloration he adopted early
in our courtship.

**********

I remember expressing with a cylinder pump in the early days after my almost
9 year old was born.  My husband came home from work and I met at the door
with "Look what *I* did!"

Kathy

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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
Great Mills, MD
mailto:[log in to unmask]
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one
determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger
desires."- Marcelene Cox

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