Hello everyone, I just got a call from a friend (and a very good labor room nurse who was excellent when I was pregnant with my son). She has been asked and has accepted to take over the childbirth classes at the local hospital. She is going to be needing help or advice of any kind, so if anyone has experience with this, or is a childbirth instructor in any of the methods(Bradley, Lamaze, etc) that could give a brief overview of what the methods are like or refer to someone nearby (Scranton, PA). Also I and possibly my coleaders will be helping or at least welcome to present info on breastfeeding-- (Hooray!) She is very much for accomodating mother's choices for birth and supporting breastfeeding-if she had a computer she might be one of us! I think there are 1 or 2 recently certified LCs as staff nurses there who she will also ask to become involved. This is such a great opportunity to make much needed improvements in the options moms have in this area--we rather tend to be 15-20 yrs behind the times!! I'm excited and will help her any way I can, but don't have the childbirth resources--we had a local ICEA at one time but it folded due to no one available wanting to run it!! So....any advice, help, resources, etc., and the permission to share it with her will be gratefully appreciated. I'd really like to see this happen with some positive results for the moms in the Scranton area-it's loooong overdue. Then the other hosp will be getting some real competition; possibly effect a change there at some time, too. We had done visits at the other hosp, but were constantly being called and told not to give any info, just show our faces and leave, because(for example) telling a mom to nurse more often and that giving water might hinder her developing milk supply is telling the mom to go against doctor's orders and we can't have that! Obviously a few wanted us there but there was a lot of resistance from staff as well, who didn't wish to support breastfeeding. Thanks much!! Georgeanne Mattise, LLLL, MT, NFP inst.