Hi Cathy,
        In your post you say: >We need to be able to feel confident and
nurse our children anytime,
>anyplace. Cathy

        But how do we get to confident? For me confident might be when I
hear that noone anytime anywhere is going to even try to take my child away
from me. Perhaps in legaleeze?? I just don't know exactly. Liz's reports
have helped me some, but they don't cover a renegade SW...
        I also struggle constantly with, "if not now when and if not me,
who?" And many times in college days stood and protested against or rallied
for causes I believed in. I would have (and did) risked a lot then, but it
was my life and my consequences to risk -- my child doesn't deserve to pay
for my zealousness, does he? on the other hand, since the probability is so
low, is it worth the greater good for that risk?
        I'm not there yet.... I do talk the talk, however. To all the mom's
I speak to (in a capacity I'm forbidden to mention without prior approval) I
let them know it's not only possible to nurse beyond babyhood -- here's
living proof...tandem nursing, toddler nursing, etc... I tell the doctor but
that's bc I have a relationship with the doctor that I trust -- I even
purposely nursed in front of the one Ped in the Clinic here that is openly
anti breastfeeding, just to annoy him, and prove our point (especially when
he handed over an Rx and said, I'm sure you've given this before and I could
say, "no, he's breastfed he's never been sick before" truthfully!). But I
could do that bc I know my ped, his partner, would support me...
        But in my backyard, with a new neighbor who is less than chatty who
works for CSD living next door? Not on your life. My first thought when they
moved in was, ooooh I better get those curtains made...

        So I throw out to fellow extended nursers, what got you to
confident? or what keeps you from it?
Anne E. Robb, MAT,

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