>There's a fungus amongst us again!  I find it so difficult to understand why
>some physicians do not want to treat baby for possible thrush when they do not
>have visible signs yet but, mom has definite symptoms herself.

Our local coalition is going to tackle this at our next meeting.  We're
putting together packets containing Kay Hoover's full color spread, Jack's
sheet on gentian violet, and a couple other handouts, and we're sending
them to area obs, peds, and family practice groups.  That way, *everyone*
will have the same information, and no one can say they've never heard it.

I'm hoping the coalition will decide to do the same with legal issues:
prepare a packet on bfing info and custody issues to send to local family
court judges - at a time when there are no bfing cases on the docket - just
to give them background info they can pull from their files when there *is*
a case.

Any thoughts on how to make these preemptive packets as effective as possible?

Diane  Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY