Andrea, how cool that you have time and resources to offer this class!

I have one general suggestion about presentation.  You wrote, << I
 am planning on including pumping - how to and pump options and milk
 storage; growth spurts; common problems - yeasr, plugged ducts,
 mastitis, nursing strikes; supply issues (too much, not enough);
 products; pros & cons of schedules (Dr.Bucknam of Babywise is a local
 pediatrician so we got lots of Babywise questions); maternal diet/fussy
 baby. >>

For all of these things -- which are indeed helpful for moms to know -- I
would start by describing the normal, and then treat these as variations of
the normal.

So if the normal is basic supply and demand, then too much and too little is
one topic about variation from that; and I would say pumping might be a
second one variation from it, since it's about artificially keeping up with
the same supply you'd be making if you were exclusively at the breast.  And
so on.   That way you can help try to avoid the pattern of lay people hearing
one problem and focusing on it as "the" thing to know about bf -- all two
easy for all of us all the time, but especially in the peripartum period
when, as my friend Hillary says of herself, "I have two functional neurons."

Good luck --

Elisheva Urbas
NYC

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