As regards Morgan's post, I'll reply tonight when I have more time.
I just wanted to thank Karleen, from the bottom of my heart, for her very kind and very public tribute to me on Lactnet.  I'd like to add that, like everyone in this field, I'm still learning and hope I can keep learning till the day I die.  One of the joys is mentoring others, and seeing them bloom - and they bloom because they had it in them, and just needed a a bit of encouragement along the way.
Virginia

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM. PhD, IBCLC
Honorary Research Fellow
School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics
The University of Queensland, QLD 4072
Australia
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Karleen Gribble wrote;
Yes, and I would also put forward the idea that it seems relatively common 
for children to wean for a time and then resume breastfeeding...in my study 
of long term breastfeeding 20% of children had weaned for some time and then 
restarted....there are of course many children who wean and then cannot 
restart so it seems.
My attitude with long term braestfeeding is that when to wean is something 
that is worked out between mother and child and children do all eventually 
wean...we do not have a lot of Harvey's about the place!
Finally, since I'm responding to Virginia I just wanted to send a personal 
but public message fo thanks to her. I've just been reading my latest 
Essence (ABA's members mag) and read that she has resigned as an ABA 
counsellor after 40+ years. Over this time Virginia would have assisted 
probably thousands of women in this role.  I know that I greatly valued 
Virginia's support and encouragement when I was starting out doing 
breastfeeding research. I'm sure that you'll be plenty busy Virginia and 
will continue to inspire in the breastfeeding world but ABA will miss you.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


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