Will add my two cents to KDettwyler's:  anyone who thinks that the current
administration in the great Commonwealth of Virginia will be setting aside
that block grant money for breastfeeding promotion, please e-mail me right
away about some waterfront property I have in Arizona....  we are much more
interested in building prisons here and I wouldn't put it past the current
Gov. to figure out a way to allocate WIC money for prison food.  Katherine's
comment about special ed hit a *real* nerve with me as we are currently
fighting WWIII with my 16-year-old's school about special services for
recently-diagnosed ADD and LD problems.  Without the US Rehabilitation Action
Section 504 and other assorted provisions too boring to go into, we wouldn't
stand a prayer against the school administrators.  It's hard even *with* all
those "sticks" (carrots definitely don't work) to get anywhere with the
bureaucracy...  if I didn't have Federal laws and regulations to threaten 'em
with, we'd really be sunk!  Thanks, Katherine, for pointing this out and
giving me a chance to "vent" to a new audience (my co-workers are sick of
hearing me whine)!!!!

Mary Renard (am thinking of changing my screen name to mamabear!)

P.S. Jan Barger, my in-laws, when they heard we planned to have our second at
home, offered us money to go to the hospital because they were terribly
concerned that we didn't have insurance!  When we explained that of course we
did have insurance they just "didn't get it" and I am the established weirdo
in the family.  Wish I'd thought to promptly say *yes* to the money and then
of course have the (9 lb. 12 oz.) baby at home anyway!