Last week Barbara Phillip MD, from Boston Medical Center, came to Vermont for a Loving Support conference. She spoke at Pediatric Grand Rounds at the UVM-affiliated Fletcher Allen hospital. (UVM is the University of Vermont.) Basically she told the story of becoming baby-friendly, but told the story as a public health tale. When she discussed the benefits of breastfeeding, specifically the decreased incidence of childhood leukemia, I kid you not, the crowd GASPED. After the presentation the head honcho pediatrician went directly down to the podium to talk to her. This was a powerful lesson to me. I am so used to knowing all these things that I forget that the advantages of breastfeeding are NOT public knowledge, not even for medical students. And yes I knew that before. We decided we would offer our MD VLCA speakers for pediatric grand rounds again next spring. That peer support and teaching works on all kinds of different levels! And if you are in a position where you may be able to engineer some of these sorts of opportunities, I'd say go for it. We certainly don't have a plethora of pedis at our conferences, even though we offer CMEs (thank you VCHIP). And I would highly recommend Barbara as a speaker! Dawn Kersula ....getting ready for a one-hour breastfeeding update with home visitors tomorrow in Brattleboro, Vermont _______________________________________________________________ The information contained in, or attached to, this e-mail, may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may be subject to legal privilege. If you have received this e-mail in error you should notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, delete the message from your system and notify your system manager. Please do not copy it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. The views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused, directly or indirectly, by any virus transmitted in this email. _______________________________________________________________ *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html