I too have had many moms tell me that the "LC" in the hospital told her this or that. Now I know that that hospital does not have an LC, but is using nurses to give incorrect lactation information. Just today, a mom cancelled an appointment with me (a private LC) because this hospital told her that she could avail herself of the hospital's LC. This mom had a 26 week preemie, has sore nipples and is getting less and less milk. The hospital LC does not look at her nipples to see what is going on (this mom recently got over? a case of oral thrush) and told her she just needs to keep drinking lots and lots to get more milk. She felt like she didn't want to have to pay me if she could get free help in the hospital but expressed concern that the LC at the hospital would not be able to help her. I told her if it would make her comfortable, then go ahead and see the person at the hospital one more time - if she wasn't satisfied, I'd still be happy to see her and work out a payment plan to help with the money situation. Soooooooooooo frustrating that this big important hospital in my area won't employ a *real* LC, but keeps insisting that they have them on their staff. Yaffa