Greetings to all on the Lactnet. I have been lurking by accident rather than by design since my messages kept coming back to me or going off to the netherlands of cyberspace. I am an IBCLC in full time private practice in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. My background is medical laboratory sciences and until January of this year I was a Registered Medical Technologis. My practice has progressed to the point of not needing my other career to fall back on ... it is full steam ahead in lactation consulting work. To ward off burnout from continuous crisis intervention I have been working as a research assistant in the areas of infant nutrition and (of course) breastfeeding. I will be in Scottsdale for the ILCA conference and look forward to our Lactnet get together. Sorry I missed out on the T-shirt, I am a novice at the 'net., if it was not for my dear colleague Joan Fisher who printed out information and haranged my to mail it in I would still be procrastinating. Kathleen, Please put a dot for me on Ottawa, Ontario Canada. I have stayed up 'till 3:30 a.m. to get through the 335 messages on my mailbox ... I hope digest is easier to cope with. Goodnight all. Lana Matthews IBCLC