Hi all

Well I guess it is time to say a few things:  1)  I am sorry about mentioning
money on Lactnet.  I got my hand slapped.  I was so excited to tell you about
our pamphlets for the medical professionals.  We really do not charge for them.
When I was typing, I had an awful thought of the health department getting all
of these requests and yelling at me about the printing and postage.  Please
consider it a donation and not a price.

2)  The whole large weight gain discussion goes into the whole weight chart
discussion.  I had 2 boys born at 7# some  oz.  They tripled their birth weight
in no time, going from about the 60% to the 100% on the chart.  I thought you
had to double the age to get the size clothes.  I have one son at 6 feet 2
inches and one son at 6 feet 6 inches.   On the other hand I had 2 girls born at
9#.  They slowly went down the chart (especially the last one.)  One is average
weight and 5 feet 4 inches and the other is average weight and 5 feet.

3)  Saving computer space  I found that I can take the digests off line to the
in basket.  Then off line I save each digest to a disk.  I can then read them at
work, at home on my husband's lap top, or my son's computer.  I can push edit
cut and paste to the files on the disk that I have named by subject.  My hope
(ha!ha!) is that I will have some time to move the subjects around so all one
topic is on one disk.  Right now I have 2 disks almost full and I have some
allergy things on both disks.  Do any of you have other ideas?

Diane Herforth, BAE, IBCLC, ICCE
Tacoma WA