I think Marie's message was very revealing of a population that I didn't know existed or is growing. I also think Elisheva's message about followup was extremely pertinent. remember the old saying that a job wasn't finished until the paperwork was done? Well an LCs job isn't finished until baby is happily at breast. You can't leave follow up to a mom who doesn't know the whole picture and will have the sense to pursue more help. (Immediate pp moms sometimes don't have any sense left :-) Whenever I have worked with a mom in this situation I explain that the goal is to get baby on breast, but first we have to feed baby and let baby get over whatever it was that made them hate the breast. This requires lots of close follow up and if the LC can't do it, then she needs to be sure that mom is connected to someone else. It is not up to mom to make the call! They are usually overwhelmed, physically and emotionally with coping and they can't make the contact. This is the LCs responsibility - to make follow up happen. At least that's my opinion. Sincerely, Pat in SNJ *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html