Hi netters, Just couldn't resist a little crowing..... I did my BF in 45 minutes talk today to 25 family practice residents. I hate to admit how long I procrastinated my preparation (was still making transparencies this morning, but it was a lot easier because I spent last night getting more or less caught up (at least skimming through the digests I missed while on vacation) on Lactnet. My last minute inspriation: I took my big blue round wall clock down, gave it a "body" and wrapped it up like a baby. I put it into my baby carrier and waltzed in with my bag of "tricks". There must be some law of the universe that says dietitians should talk during or just after meals, so I have developed my talent of being "off the wall" to keep the audience attention. I asked them if they wanted to see my "baby"-- it is the new 20th century type, and then I showed them my clock. I then asked them how many of them would invite guests to dinner and tell when the dinner is over by looking at the clock, you know..." well, its been 20 minutes, isn't everyone about finished????" Well, they looked at me like I was from Mars and had a good laugh. We then talked a bit about watching the baby not the clock and that a baby's meal is "soup to cheesecake" (thanks to Linda Smith for her words!) I told them that I don't know about them, but I get might upset when I don't get my dessert and that babies also need to get theirs!! Then, my second overhead was "In this era of managed care, breastfeeding is financially beneficial to your practice." I passed out pages of my old "Fact Pack" calendars and asked each resident to read one (there were 25 people there, so 25 were read out loud... you should have seen their faces AND the words were coming out of physician's mouths) They really loved my statement that a BF benefit for mothers is that it selectively mobilizes butt fat! I showed the Royal College of Midwives latch on sequence and they were able to identify the problem in the first latch and were able to correctly identify the let down by watching the baby!!! By then, I had run out of time, so I told them that I had the 6 minute tape of the baby crawling to the breast. They decided to give up part of their break to watch it. AFterwards, they had lots of questions and I told them that I would love to come back to discuss medical management of breastfeeding problems. !!!!! YESSSSSSSS !!!!! Its good to be back on lactnet..... This really is a treasure of inspiration!! Thank you to all who sent me stuff for this. I really got inspired by reading your ideas and will be incorporating them into my other classes I teach. Love to all, Queen Butt (I gained 7 lb reading and eating on my veg-out vacation--and not from eating them--the mental kind...)