>While I can well remember how it feels to have to wake up when I was exhausted
>as a new mom, I was also aware when I became pregnant, that night-feedings
>were part of "the deal".  I think some of these mothers need a good dose of
>reality.

We may be *aware* that it will be like that... but can we ever really
*prepare* for it?  I'm working with a couple who've had all their
pre-delivery dreams shattered - c-section instead of home birth, no milk
for the first 10 days or so, minimal milk now, screaming baby, jaundice,
scrounging for donor milk, pumping routines, etc etc.

The father, near the end of his tether, complained to their midwife, "Why
didn't anyone *tell* me it could be like this?"  "Eddie," the midwife
responded, "I must have told you 100 times while Ann was pregnant."  "Oh,
yeah," he said, "That's what my sister-in-law says, too.  I guess I wasn't
listening."

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY