Reading all these posts about this analogy of the waves reminds of the
article in Riordan and Auerbach's book about swimming with the sharks.  We
all jumped into the water with the goal of helping moms and babies
breastfeed and have probably found ourselves doing that very thing (swimming
with sharks, that is!).  It is no wonder that after swimming with sharks and
'pioneering' (as another poster put it) there will be some burnout along the
line.  However, I think for most of us, what we do, we do for love, not
money (though, thankfully, one can finally earn some money at it),  and
therefore, we jump back in because our pioneer spirit will not let us give
up!  Like children learning to walk, we took baby steps and we have fallen
down some, but we get back up, dust ourselves off, take another step (jump
back in the water) and forge ahead.  That is how we've come this far.  When
I help women in the hospital today, who, without thought or plan, get things
I had to fight for (no IV, birthing rooms, rooming in, demand feeding etc.)
I see that we truly have made progress.  There is much left to do (what's a
pioneer without a frontier?!) but we have also accomplished much, and I, for
one, am happy that my daughters will not have to fight some of the battles
when birthing their children that I did with them. I am constantly impressed
by what I read on this list and I am humbled to be among your ranks.

Marsha Glass RN, BSN, IBCLC
Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations
as all other earthly causes combined.
                                John S. C. Abbot

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