Just my thoughts here:  I have been an active LLL Leader for 12 and 1/2
years.  I have breastfed five children. I have read every book I could get
my hands on about breastfeeding, attended as many conferences as I could
afford, and helped countless mothers and babies throughout the years. I have
no formal degrees, no initials after my name.  I still have a couple of
years of lay counceling before I qualify to sit the exam. A person who has
never had children, much less breastfed one, can sit the exam with a four
year degree in engineering.  Who would you rather have help you with a
breastfeeding problem?

Kay Hagan-Haller
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I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do
something; and what I should do and can do, by the grace of God, I will do.
--unknown author
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