To add to the comments on the value of educating medically trained people
about breastfeeding, because of the difference they can make with the right
comment:-
   Before my first pregnancy, I had thought of breastfeeding as something
that was only done for a few weeks, to help the uterus involute.  After
that, I'd assumed I'd go on to bottle feeding, and the ubiquitous ads had
put put into my mind what brands of bottle and teat I'd use.  I'm not sure
if I'd chosen a brand of artificial baby milk.  Then, when trying for a
pregnancy, I heard Sydney paediatrician Dr Clair Isbister refer to some
Scandinavian breastfeeding research on her regular morning radio segment on
the Women's Session, which I think was called "Medicine in the News".  She
cited a study that showed protection against allergy in infants breastfed
for longer - a whole 8 months.  I was sold!  After putting up with allergic
rhinitis and (undiagnosed) asthma for years, I was keen to protect my future
baby.  This radio talk by a paediatrician was *definitely* the turning
point!  A few months later I read a back issue of the Reader's Digest with
the chapter on the formation of LLL from Karen Pryor's book, but it was the
radio segment that that created my interest and motivation.
   Very bad advice after delivery and the surveillance and control then
exerted over new mothers, led to iatogenic BF problems and I ended up
completely "dry".  The good news is that I relactated, after the LLL manual
arrived.  I realised that there must be other mothers who needed sound
advice, and trained with LLLI.  Training with NMA (now ABA) followed, I
later wrote a breastfeeding manual that had 7 editions (the first was with a
different publisher), and then I certified IBCLC in the very first chohort
in 1985 and am still certified.
   Would any of this have happened had I not heard Clair Isbister on radio?
I'll never know.  This is yet another story that points ot the desirability
of medical people being well-informed and upfront about breastfeeding.
    Virginia
     in Brisbane

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