Hi, >The latest update on my three emailers is that one turns out to be >British and lives up the road from me - I was able to refer her to >people by name (which is always a help); one has given up and is pumping >as much EBM as possible and bottle-feeding it and the other is having a >disagreement with her LLL leader and she is not going to like my latest >email which says that perhaps her LLL leader is right? I think she'll >make it however, if someone can convince her! :-) The even more latest update is that the latter mum has now decided, oh joy of joys, to employ a professional LC! The LC seems to think the problem is a congenital sucking problem compounded by nipple confusion and they are beginning to work on it. I am absolutely thrilled - I really didn't think the mother would carry on and it was all I could do to persuade her to get to a LLL meeting on the off-chance someone had any ideas, let alone part with hard-earned cash to seek professional advice. She seems a lot more positive, and the LC did an excellent job of getting her to see it as a problem to be tackled, rather than a sign of her being a lousy mother. I am willing her to succeed :-) -- Anna (mummy to Emma, born 17th Jan 1995 and Alice, born 11th Sept 1996) Web Page: http://www.ratbag.demon.co.uk/anna Turnpike evaluation. For Turnpike information, mailto:[log in to unmask]