Hi there! I'm so pleased to learn of this forum! My name is Yulanda Ridge and I'm a Lactation Consultant in South Africa. I've been working with breastfeeding moms and babies for the past 11 years and to me there's no more beautiful sight than to watch a well-latched baby and happy mom nursing contentedly! I have 3 children, aged 9, 11 and 13 and have breastfed all 3 of them for a total of 5 years. - Our 1st son was breastfed for 8½ months - and I made all my mistakes with him being the first baby when I had no help and only wrong advice to go on. I relatctated him at 6 weeks as I had very reluctantly put him on the bottle after I got terribly engorged which ended in damaged nipples. (How I wish I knew then what i know now!) - Our daughter weaned herself at 14 months when I fell pregnant with our 3rd child (even though I wanted to tandem nurse, she was not interested at all). - Our 3rd baby boy was breastfed till a month before his 3rd birthday. He was my real learning school when it came to learning what a good latch was as I had blood-blisters on each nipple from the first feed in hospital! My first 2 babies instictively latched well so I didn't have personal experience in this yet, and thought I "knew it all" when I was pregnant with our 3rd! LOL. I was referred to this site by Jacquie Nutt, an IBCLC in South Africa after I sent her some pics of the worst case of thrush or eczema on the nipples that I've ever come across. I would like to post those 2 pics to this site and get some feed-back on it please? (I'm just not sure how to post the pics without them being attachments?) Yulanda Ridge Lactation Consultant South Africa *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html