You're so right- I spend more time asking questions when moms call to try to find out "what's the problem". Usually they call to buy a pump - but they need a baby at the breast, not a pump. (These are not hospitalized babies, of course). I am trying to change "culture" - we all are, I guess. And now that those darn books are telling moms to put babies on "schedules" again we're going to have to write our own books (yes, I like the idea of "250 dopey barriers to breastfeeding.") MOMS AND BABIES NEED TO BE TOGETHER (yes, I'm shouting) - what's this idea of putting a baby in another bed in another room? When I need to get to know someone I need them right there to learn about them! (the Honeymoon, for example) A baby doesn't know they're "supposed" to be independent. They just know that they were once warm, snug, massaged, rocked, talked to, etc - and now all of a sudden they're all alone, cold, dry, hard, untouched (the over-wrapping we have here even reduces the skin contact with babies when they're being breast-fed - I have to "unwrap the package" before I can help with breastfeeding as moms don't want to unwrap this perfect package the nurses bring them.) I tell moms if God intended for babies to be left alone in a crib He would have us lay eggs instead of developing our babies in our bodies! My mom remembers sitting next to my crib, watching the clock and listening to me cry while she cried and waited for the "right time according to Dr. Spock" to pick me up! Do we really think that's the way it's supposed to be???? I know - I'm preaching to the choir - but it is so frustrating some times. Jeanette Panchula BSW, LLLL (thank God for them or I would have done the same as my mom), IBCLC, RN Puerto Rico - where we saw the comet flying over the Royal Palm in my back yard - oh for a good photographer!