It is amazing though, that only breasts (in relation to breastfeeding) are given permission by the medical community to not work and no one becomes concerned. With every other body part and function, if someone woke up and a system "stopped working" or failed to work "correctly" the medical community would run tests, treat, etc. because this is not normal. Fact being, the body is designed to work in specific ways with specific purposes- if it isn't working, somethings wrong. But daily, women seek medical advice for percieved or actual lactation issues and are told that its just something they have to get over- kind of an "ah well" approach- "sorry, you just don't make milk, make enough, etc. " Please forgive my bluntness, but if this approach was reversed and a sometimes upstanding segment of male anatomy failed to work, why- treatment and drug companies would leap to find answers or cures!....hummm- shades of Viagra! Of course it is more important for an 80 year old to have his anatomy working properly than to support maternal abilities and self confidence in the proper function of their breasts. Womens health continues to take a back seat in health care in so many ways, including physician/nursing education. Until the function of breasts and breastfeeding are included in education /training with the same seriousness of all other body parts and systems we will continue to fail to meet the healthcare needs of our female population. Until healthcare workers can not pass their boards without a comprehensive knowledge of lactogenesis and supportive interventions on par with renal, cardiac, etc. the rest of us will continue to feel like we're swimming upstream daily. And mothers/infants will continue to pay the price for ignorance. Hey, it only took how many years and negitive consequences for aseptic techniques to catch on? Have a good weekend all! Lisa Jones *********************************************** 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