Echoing Nikki's thanks to you, Diane, for this question.  It's been a
pleasure reading the accounts of all these other Lactnetters.  
To Teresa Pitman, who asks how we all got so OLD: Don't be ridiculous. Just
because our children have turned into mature adults doesn't mean we have
aged ONE SECOND from the time they were born.  Just thinking back on that
time, I can get afterpains.
I am chuckling at the thought of Teresa being hooked on LLL for life by
seeing twin toddlers breastfeeding at the first meeting.  Actually, there
are things in all these posts that make me smile.  Dawn's recollection of
the nurse saying she looked like a pro, and how empowering that was, *even
if it was a lie*.  Pat T being too poor and lazy not to BF, and Wendy's
painful lesson with her firstborn, a testimonial to our ability to turn
something bad into something good. 
While everything worked in favor of me breastfeeding, I should say that I
had made a conscious decision to do it, for pretty much every reason in the
book. Even then, I always thought it sounded incredibly wimpy when pregnant
women would say 'Well, I'm going to TRY breastfeeding'.  Sometimes I wonder
how tenacious I would have been if I had run into unexpected difficulties. I
like to think I would have persisted but fortunately I never was put to the
test. 
Rachel, as always, enjoying strolling down Mammary Lane

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