Assunta, please provide *a lot* more information about your encounters with
nurses and doctors.  What sort of health care facility?  What sort of
clientele?  Where?  Average age and education level of the health
professionals working there?  Your position in the facility?  Situation(s)
where you encountered resistance?  I would like to understand your
perspective better.

Mary Renard
Vienna VA USA

>I even find it more difficult to have nurses
>listen to me.  I think that it is because I am not a nurse.  I am not
>interested in starting any wars but I would be curious to know if many
>of the LC's (nurses or not) have more difficulties dealing with nurses
>than dealing with doctors on breastfeeding matters.
>I finally concluded that it was a control issue for the nurses.  They
>became very possessive of the babies.
>Let me add that not all the nurses I work with were like this, but a
>majority were.
>Could we have an honest discussion about this?
>
>Assunta Osterholt, IBCLC
>http://www.earthlink.net/~oster6/