A business neighbor two doors down has been a bra customer for 20 years now. Child #2, a daughter who is now 16, was breastfed until the age of 4 and remembers it most fondly. This 16 year old has a long term girlfriend from school soccer team who found herself pregnant from an older 20 year old boyfriend. This now 16 year old single new mom who lives with her single mother is breastfeeding due to the encouragement of this friend who tells her constantly it is the best way and only way to feed a baby. This friend is working hard encouraging the new mom to do her homework and keep her grades up and apply and get into a high school program here in Washington State called Running Start. Kids go to community college for 11th & 12th grades with funds allocated to the college instead of the high school. Then they can enter a 4 year school with two years under their belt and already paid for. She also thinks her friend will be allowed to bring an exclusively breastfeeding baby to class at first, which is not possible in high school. I hope she is right. Her mom, the customer, is bowled over by her daughters efforts. I am too and so far it is working, her friend is breastfeeding and doing her schoolwork. Judy Ritchie *********************************************** 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 email list is powered by LISTSERV (R). There is only one LISTSERV. To learn more, visit: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html