Someone posted that they wish they could pair up every new mom with a happy older nursing baby. That's exactly what a mom's support group does. The moms run the group at our hospital - I'm there to hold babies if moms have to go to the bathroom. An example from last Friday's group. This was this particular mom's 2nd time coming (her baby is 2 weeks old) and she has had a very rough 2 weeks - very emotional. Baby gaining weight slowly, milk supply borderline (hx of breast reduction), and she's just not happy with breastfeeding, but very motivated. Another mom who has recently started coming to the group has a chubby happy exclusively breastfed baby. When she introduced herself, she told the group she had had breast reduction surgery. The first mom cried out, "so did I!" the 2 of them immediately sat down next to each other, crying and sharing their stories. I found out later from the two of them that after the group they went back to one of the mom's houses and continued their "bonding". I noticed that the mom of the 2 week old couldn't take her eyes off the 3 month-old and I know she went home with a lot of hope. We did discuss in the group the galactagogues the one mom was finding success with and made recommendations to the other on things she might want to try. To paraphrase one of the other moms: "This is what a support group is all about!" I could go on and on, but I'll end it with - I live for the Friday morning support group. Ends my week on an upbeat note. Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html