Well, before the blackout, I had been thinking aobut posting this one, but after the blackout its especially pertinant. Usually, I'm nervous about baby nurses. My most recent experience had been one who claimed to be an RN and told a mother of a one month old to quit nursing cold turkey and she called because she was developing mastitis. She had all sorts of unresolved emotions aobut quitting. Then, right after that baby nurse experience, I had a client with the world's best baby nurse. The woman was unable to pump with an electric pump so her baby nurse taught her how to hand express milk. For fourteen days she pumped every three hours by hand with the help of her baby nurse and could pump out five ounces after every feeding. It turns out that they had not put the white plastic flap in place so she wasn't getting any suction from her pump. When I couldn't phone any of my clients yesterday afternoon and started to realize that this blackout was more than a temporary disruption, my first thoughts were that she was the only one of the supplementing moms that was going to make it through. I remembered how there had been a run on formula in Park Slope during 9/11, thought about all that formula that would go bad without refrigeration and thought "what are all these women going to do?" Just one more reason to breastfeed and to know how to hand express. I'm supposing today will be a day of fielding phone calls from engorged women. Susan Burger, PhD, MHS, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html