For so many years I have felt like Sisyphus, rolling the stone of ignorance about breastfeeding up the hill with one mother only to find with the next that it had rolled back down. I've seen hospitals and clinics make improvements and the slide backward into less baby friendly practices again. 

What does it take to make permanent changes for the better? This question is addressed in the article at the address below. 

http://www.vitalsmarts.com/userfiles/10xinfluence/InfluencerResearchReport.pdf 

The authors, who call themselves the VitalSmarts Team, wrote two excellent books - "Crucial Conversations" and "Crucial Confrontations" - on skills for effective communications. After years of teaching communication skills in business environments, they came to some conclusions about the effective use of influence. They have written a book, "Influencer: the Power to Change Anything." This article is free. 

If you read it, I would like to know whether or not you can use these ideas where you are. 

Alice Roddy, LLL 
Front Royal, VA 
Nursing is the biological norm for mothers and babies. It is a relationship that provides stress reducing hormones to the mother as well as stimulation, connection, and protection from illness to the baby. It even feeds the baby. 

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