I have permission from mom to post about this, but here is a happy
success story...  :-)

I went to a meeting of our BF volunteer group volunteers, about our
phone help service on saturday...and something really nice happened:
I met someone I had helped on the phone about 1.5 years ago!  I didn't
know it, but she is one of our newer volunteers, and is now
responsible for the voicemail box that you get when you call the
number for phone help (this voicemail then gives you the names/numbers
of 3 volunteers "on call" for the month).

She was asking if I had any interest in doing phone help again and I
said sure, but AQ had requested that I not do it b/c I am a
long-distance call for most people as I am further away from the city
(Québec).  She couldn't get over that...said people are cheap and said
"how many people have unlimited long-distance plans now?".  Well,
anyhow, she said "when I called you, it didn't cost me a thing and I
got such good service"...so I asked what the call was about (not ever
having met her and of course being a year and a half ago I didn't
recognize her voice or anything).  Once she described it, I remembered
the call vividly.  Her DS was 5 mos old, refusing the breast, and she
couldn't pump enough for him.  I gave her info on milk-producing herbs
and foods, gave her the name of a Bf-friendly ped who would give her a
prescription for Domperidone/Motilium if she needed it and gave her
ideas on tricks to get him back to nursing...we talked for a while on
the phone but I never heard back after that until now.  Well, she said
she had to be VERY perseverant AND relaxed about the whole thing,
offering the breast etc. but at *8* mos (3 mos later!) he finally went
back to BF and never looked back.  Her supply had dropped tho so she
continued taking domperidone and herbs and stuff and with the
introduction of solids they were ok I think, not needing (much?)
formula ever.  Anyhow, she said since supply is higher during the
night when prolactine is produced, he got used to nursing a lot at
night and not as much during the day and he's still like that...he's
now 2 and still nursing LOTS at night (but she says it doesn't bother
her a bit...she doesn't usually wake up, he just helps himself, LOL!).

It was SOOOOOO nice to hear a success story, that I'd made a
difference for someone, after so many phone calls where you hang up
feeling like all the person wanted was that you tell them it's "ok"
for them to stop nursing (and I feel like that's not my job...if they
want info for continuing I'm there to give it but it's not my position
to say it's fine to give up or that she should continue or
anything...it's her decision and once she makes it she shouldn't need
my approval...only my help if necessary).

Anyhow...I was tickled pink saturday about this.  :-)

Fio.

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