Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm glad to hear that the baskets got so  
much interest and response.  A little more creativity, I think, than  
they probably got from drug reps.  What do you think about this idea  
for medical students?  I have no idea what I'd have to go through to  
get it to happen.  They currently get almost no training, just a  
little information on how the nutritional components of breastmilk  
are better, etc.  NO how to. All of the literature I've been  
reviewing on physicians training says that they say they got very  
little actual clinical experience.  So I'm thinking about live  
models.  For those who don't know this, students graduate from  
textbooks and cadavers to practicing on live paid people before they  
are turned loose on actual patients.  For example, I know a woman who  
is a model for breast exams (not lactating). She teaches the students  
how to do it right.  She was trained and she's been examined so many  
times the right way and the wrong way that she is told that she can  
instruct the students if they are not doing something right.  So what  
about having live models of breastfeeding women for them to practice  
with?  Don't you think there must be some stay home moms that would  
love to make a little money helping to teach medical students how  
breastfeeding is supposed to go?

Lucy Towbin, LCSW, IBCLC

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