Carol's post on the MD who is offering bfing ed to students sounds so
great.  Wish it was happening here..wish we had a milk bank to tour.
Hope that local MD writes a guidebook to encourage others to do
likewise.

  Have to comment on the "client in a local hospital...who had been
given a pump right after first successful feeding(baby all of twelve
hrs. old)told to pump to make her milk come in faster when she pumped
she saw a pink tinge to the milk..."  Carol is certainly right about it
being another bfing relationship sabotaged by a lack of information.
Although, I tend to look at it as another bfing relationship sabotaged
by using an unnecessary gadget--pump.  It reminds me of the birthing
scene.  Pitocin is often used to hurry things up, which may be a
necessity but usually not.  And here, there is hurry to get the milk to
come in fast.  Why? Why can't we wait?  Most of the cases that I have
seen of blood-tinged milk has been related to pump usage--incorrect
pumping techniques or poor pumps. Its hard to come upon these situations
and not get really discouraged.  Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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