I appreciate what Mary Jozwiak about volunteer vs pro bono services and the need for pro bono. I agree that donated services are very valuable to low income families, and that we have a responsibility to our entire community. but, my impression of Dawn's original post on "2 hours to rent a pump" was that these aren't necessarily low income families, but rather a fault of the way her pump rental facility combined with her role as a LLLLeader were working out in practice. I wouldn't assume that these are mothers who can't afford Dawn's services, but instead, her rental business was structured such that there is no clear delineation between "delivering the pump" and lactation consulting. Is it possible to write the pump rental contract to include 15 minutes of basic instruction, while making it clear that time beyond that is lactation consulting, billable in addition to the rental fees? ===== Kate Hallberg, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html Mom to Ursula (8!), Sage (5.5) and Benno (23 mos) "Happy the man with a nursing child, for he has a singing wife." - German proverb >^,,^< __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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