As I am sitting here scanning all the wonderful information I see shared on Lactnet, I remembered how I felt 18 yrs ago when I first became a LLL leader and encountered a difficult situation. So scared and alone. Many times I felt like I was battling a force larger then I and for every step forward, there were two steps backwards. And I remember many situations that LLL couldn't offer more then moral support. We have all grown and developed so much in our profession. And still we share our sucesses and failures. So for all the support, we share, thank you! Barbara Whitehead, BS, IBCLC Ayden NC PS- went to a conference last week for Public Health and couldn't help notice the difference. They had lots of Powerpoint with lots of important looking graphs and data with very serious presenters. There were no babies in sight, and no discussion of poop, nipples, leaking breasts or menstrual cycles. No silly songs about breastfeeding and no one wearing breast hats or eating breast cupcakes. I'm not even sure these people knew where babies came from or how pleasurable babies are. It was a very boring conference!! *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html