Magda, darling, you lost me at hello. Your brilliant and very insightful post nudged me beyond my vocabulatory comfort zone, ........which means you are a good teacher. I'm gonna need that lifeguard to stand by, it's get-in' deep. And Jennifer T: <<<But, my question is this--are we as LCs more akin to the lifeguard or the obstetrician. Are we talking the good talk about interventions while justifying every possible use for them?>>> your post was so convincing that while reading it I envisioned unplugging the scale and running it over with the car. But then I realized I would be using yet another high tech intervention to solve a problem. But really, you make some thought-provoking points. Debbie Tobin RN BSN IBCLC LCCE Fairfax County, Virginia suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway *********************************************** 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