Hi all,I've been lurking for the past week
I had been off Lactnet for months.I'm Ruth Callahan and own a postpartum
Doula Service in NY, N.Y. that employs experienced breastfeeding mothers
to care for breastfeeding families. Nice work, huh! :)

Adding to the thread about "why I breastfed":
 No one breastfed any of their children in my family. As a teenager I
babysat a child that was breastfed, the mother finished pumping when I
got to there house, I had a million questions for her and asked if i
could taste the milk in a cup.
15 years later when I had a child I automatically breastfed my daughter
without thinking about it. What an impression  being exposed to
breastfeeding one evening made on me.
Ruth