I was just reading Lactnet ...doing some research for a mother that has been
referred to me when I came across your post to Lactnet.  I had just finished
doing a "search" of the archives and reading the current posts when I thought
I had hit upon my subject with your note.  Well it must really be a small
world with the Lactnet group!  Seems like we are working with the same
mother...Hodgkins Disease, last chemo is on 7/9, c/s scheduled 7/31 and poss.
radiation following the birth.  I have been trying to educate myself more
about this before I speak to her, we have been playing phone tag for the past
day or two so I hope to speak to her tomarrow.  It is quite likely that she
will be delivering at the hospital where I work and I've been talking to our
Clinical Nurse Specialist in reference to this case.  I've been wondering
about some of the same questions that you have posed to the group and am
hoping that her doctors will be open to working with this mother....as I'm
sure I will be in contact with them soon!!!!  Any info from the group will be
greatly appreciated.

Oh I know that I should introduce myself to the group as I have been lurking
in the background for several months and learning lots from all the wonderful
people on Lactnet (yes Jay I've finally surfaced).  I am a hospital based LC
(overworked and covering four hospitals in our system) in Sacramento and I've
been working with breastfeeding mothers, and in parent education for the past
12yrs or so.  I am also one of the few LC's in our area that is not an RN and
yes it is true that I don't think it ever occured to our hospital when my job
just kind of evolved into what it is today.

Thanks again,
Sherry Murga Caruso, CCE, IBCLC
Sacramento, CA