Diane Weissinger suggests we could all benefit from a teaching demonstration, where LCs work with "real moms" to describe and effectuate latch. It's been done! Well -- using other LCs as the moms. At the Jan. 2001 meeting of PRO-LC, one of the PA affiliates of ILCA, four IBCLCs demonstrated how they teach latch in one of four positions (cradle, cross-cradle, side-lying and football). And, we reviewed about four or five videos showing latch and latch-teaching techniques. Everyone learned something: a phrase to use, a technique to offer, a joke to make a lesson memorable. Even those IBCLCs who can only be described as our mentors were nodding and smiling as they gleaned a nugget for future use. As someone so aptly put it recently -- we are all qualified to learn. I highly recommend this as a meeting topic for local chapters of ILCA. We can learn so much from one another. Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC Wyndmoor, PA, USA _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com *********************************************** 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