<< Many of the women I worked with at
 WIC, for example, would tell me that they didn't want to call LLL with BF
 problems, because they "knew" that LLL "was against women working", and what
 they needed help with was  getting back to work or school while nsg.  Or
 that they were afraid the LLL person they called would "yell at them"
 because they weren't exclusively BFing, or the only wanted to nurse for a
 few weeks, or whatever. And this despite my strong assurances that the local
 LLL women weren't at all like that - a couple of them were even WIC BF peer
 counselors. >>

Again, I'm sure these woman had not read the WAB nor spoken to a LLL in
person.  The book did not give them these impressions.  Just goes to show you
that the heart of LLL is mother-to-mother help, not a book made out of glue
and paper.  What was in the old blue edition with all the "corn pone" if you
think of it like that, was the encouragement for a mom to reach out for the
mother-to-mother help that was hopefully available to her.

Not all women and their babies will be able to successfully breastfeed;
nowhere is LLL literature does it state that they will.

However, women thoughout history have not needed diagrams and case studies to
successfully nurse their babies.  They needed support from other women who had
nursed.  The same holds true in 1999.

Ruth Scuderi
Westfield, MA