Hello, I am new to this wonderful group of learned people, I will try my best
to abide by the very sensible rules and I know that I am going to learn a lot
from you and may be I can give a little too. This is my second attempt at
contacting you, I have already made a mistake and sent this to lactnet via
uNmed, I just had not seen the M even though I have been plucking up courage
to sign on for days; my boys will hoot!  I am married and we have 2 young men
of 18 & 14yrs.  I have been a UK National Childbirth Trust Breastfeeding
Counsellor for quite some years and realised the second passion in my life
upon breastfeeding after a v difficult start after the birth of our eldest.  I
have a wonderful mother who helped me, she is Australian, a grazier's daughter
from N. Queensland, inland from Charters Towers, she trained as a midwife in
Brisbane and came over to UK on holiday and married here, she stopped working
just before my birth in 1953, what a great help and mentor she was, sitting
with me for every feed thro the 24 hours until we got it together about 3.5
weeks after his birth, I can never repay her for the tender care at such an
important time in my mothering.  I learnt from this and try when I can to do
this for the mothers that I meet.  There is nothing finer than getting mother
and baby breastfeeding.  I live in a large village nestling under the South
Downs ten miles from the sea in UK.  Yours, Helen M. Woodman