Kathy Kendall-Tackett:
          Several years ago CHILDBIRTH INSTRUCTOR magazine had a good article
       on sexual abuse which, if I remember correctly, contained some reference
       to breastfeeding.  I am away from my own books and journals so am not
       able to give specific ref.  There is a recent nursing text on Violence
       Toward Women - for Nurses, 1993 I believe.  It was published after a
       workshop at the Midwest Nursing Research Society, 1992.  I'm blocking
       on the editor's name -
          I have had three mothers imply that they had been "hurt" in the past.
       Two of them wanted to pump and give baby expressed milk.  I supported
       them in their decisions, encouraged them to offer lots of skin-to skin
       cuddling.  One went on to breastfeed and the other decided to give ABM.
       Interestingly the third woman talked about breastfeeding helping her
       to resolve her previous experience with abuse.  None of them went into
       detail and I did not probe.  If you wish I can send references when I
       return to Columbus in March.

       Birth Stories:
       Have any of you read Penny Simkin's articles in BIRTH on women's
       rememberance of their first births?  Again, I "think" these came out 2-
         3 years ago.  Penny is a childbirth educator and doula.  She had very
         wisely asked her expectant mothers to write down their birth ex-
       perience.  Some 15 -20 years later she contacted these woman and asked
          that they again write down their recollections of that birth.  There
         was an amazing degree of agreement between the two reports.

            The many personal birth experiences you have shared on LACTNET and
how       how vivid your memories of the event really confirms, for me, the
       validity of PennySimkin's findings.
          Has anyone considered combining these stories?
          I cannot edit on my present program - sorry.  Please xcuse typos.

          Martha Pitzer, RN, PhD, IBCLC
          (currently in Athen, GA - missing Columbus, OH and all that snow)