I have five children, and my oldest will be 30 in April. My mom always told me 
she had breastfed and that she loved it. (I didn't know until much later that 
she started supplementing at 2mo) I saw my sister-in-law openly 
breastfeeding her children, but as others have said, I just always assumed I 
would breastfeed. My first was an emergency cesarean (with about a 24hr 
separation), but still I just expected to breastfeed, and expected it to work--
and it did. I did read Karen Pryor, and remember referring to the book a few 
times.  
I never attended LLL in the beginning with my first two. I joked with a 
friend, "Who needs a club to breastfeed?!"  I learned with my third that I did! I 
was still in the hospital when I became engorged--rock hard--and they would 
not let me pump at all, saying it would just make things worse and giving me 
hot packs. As you can imagine, the snowball began. Engorgement, cracked 
nipples from not being able to latch well, jaundice from inadequate transfer, 
mastitis from the cracked nipples, rehospitalization to treat jaundice with lights 
and an IV that took 30 minutes to finally get in (If I knew then...). As horrid as 
it was, it led me to LLL for a pump, correct information and wonderful support. 

Rosalyn Farley, IBCLC
Sacramento, CA

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