Magda, I agree with you. While there are medically fragile dyads that may need a high degree of intervention and tool use, we must continually assess our varied situations, improve BF support whenever we can, challenge ourselves and our profession to ensure we are helping and not hindering mothers and babies. << If scales and other approaches which, yes, may well be needed in your circumstances, become the default way of practicing the profession of LC, then what are the implications of INTRODUCING these in our differing cultures where we may need different devices and approaches, and where the use of these tools may take us some steps, if not backwards, at least sidewards? If LC is to be an influential international profession, this worries me. >> Laurie Wheeler, IBCLC, MN, RN rural Mississippi, s.e. USA *********************************************** 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