>Wonder what the difference in peer support and LLL peer support >means? My LLL experience over 38+ years says differently! Also no >mention of pre-BF education and support. I know it makes a >difference when moms come before the birth of the baby to LLL >meetings. Gee I wish I had time to do research :-( Pat in SNJ It would be really useful if basic peer support worked without antenatal input - we will never get to a situation where all mothers come when still pg to a meeting held by a volunteer organisation. Only about half of all first-time mothers in the UK come to any antenatal classes - even if we could somehow get the same number to come to bf meetings, there is no way the necessary number of supporters could be trained to handle all these extra customers! I think peer support has an element of creating acceptance of bf within a community - changing the climate, if you like, making bf normal where it has been abnormal for about 40-50 years. If the only way peer support works is to see mothers before the birth, and then a zillion times afterwards, we are sunk. In fact, this study shows a zillion visits make no difference - maybe yet another visit in pg would work, but maybe we'd have to have fewer afterwards. Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc, tutor, UK (and a big Yay! for Lactnet's award, BTW!) *********************************************** 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