>
Nikki's story about her frustrations with technical problems with her  
computer led to the point that we can be too dependent on machines  
and miss the personal connection.  We work in a field that is very  
personal. Several people told their personal stories about what they  
wear for home visits or about wearing lipstick and their personal  
experiences of the difference it made rather than just giving  
objective data.  I think that lactation has to be both a personal art  
and a science, and that if we can only talk about objective facts and  
never share anything personal, we are not reflecting the nature of  
our profession. Thanks Nikki for helping me coalesce my thoughts.  - 
Lucy Towbin, MSW, LCSW, IBCLC

> Nikki said:
>     Without connections there is no caring. Without  connections we  
> are but
> machines. To illustrate, we are deemed incable  of identifying  
> strong labor
> contractions because the monitor picture says  that we aren't  
> having any. Our
> feelings don't count; only the graph is  right.
>

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