Greetings form finally sunny New Hampshire.
Having just gotten on-line a few days ago the first things I've done are to
subscribe to LACTNET and LLLOL!.  I'm Mardrey Swenson in West Lebanon, right
near Dartmouth College.  I have three children, all breastfed and soccer
players and my husband works at Dartmouth Medical School and a small hospital
in Peterborough, NH.  I've been board-certified since 1987 and been putting
my skills to work as Area Professional Liaison for Maine/NH LLL for the past
five years. This has included planning and putting on two conferences for
continuing education for health professionals.

Reading journal articles about breastfeeding started as a hobby eighteen
years ago when I was a chiropractic educator and had had my first child.  I
lecture on the immune properties of human milk, a complex and exciting
subject for me.  I have stacks & stacks of articles about immunoglobins,
fatty acids, oligosaccharides, mucins, etc. and was glad to see Jack Newman's
article in Scientific American.

 My frustrations are with the big teaching hospital in the area; the LITTLE
 community hospital in its shadow has a wonderful LC on staff.  I get more
referrals from the big one.
Although I'm a chiropractor by education I love working with breastfeeding
women and their babies.  And, the medical training does help me understand
all those research articles.   I audited the immuology course at Dartmouth
Medical School to catch up on all the advances in that field in the last
fifteen years!

Glad to be on-line.