Hello.
        My name is Vivian Levensohn, an LLLL in southeastern
Wisconsin.
        Funny, when I read Nancy's question about grandparents
supporting breastfeeding I immediately jumped onto a different train of
thought than most respondents.  That is because I am part of an
unbroken chain of breastfed humanity. My mother breastfed me and
my sibs (back in the 50's, she was very old fashioned), just as her
mother had done before her.
        I remember my mother getting up and seeing me, struggling
against sleepiness, as I nursed my newborn in a rocking chair.  "Take
him to bed with you," she suggested.
         "But Terry thinks he might roll over on him."
         "He won't," she assured me. " I took all of you to bed with me.
It's the easiest way."
        A grandmother who is experienced in breastfeeding and thinks
of it as natural and important is supportive just by relating her own
experiences. It's mother to mother help across the generations, and it
is what must have happened for millenia

Vivian Levensohn, Juneau, WI