Nina regarding the baby shower experience. I recently gave a workshop to Wic.
In attendence was a person who recently returned from the peace corps. she
had worked on a small island in the Philipines with midwives. She reported
that eveyone breasfeeds their children and for extended periods and that they
have a difficult time getting the mothers to feed solids to the children. At
two years most are excusively breastfed. She felt that here the problem was
just the opposite of what is was in  the Philipines!