You are wondering who was born then. I was born in 1959- i am nearly 40 and returning to nursing school. In my former life I taught high school and college english and spanish. That is why my master's degree is in education. told y'all (that's southern) was rusty haven't spoken spanish in more than a year. mechell -----Original Message----- From: Automatic digest processor <[log in to unmask]> To: Recipients of LACTNET digests <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 7:48 PM Subject: LACTNET Digest - 14 Jan 1999 - Special issue ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:31:49 -0600 Reply-To: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> From: Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]> Subject: finding names Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >My friend who is a >nurse at the VA stated today that a friend had looked up the name of a famous >athlete, and not only found his name, but address and phone number as well. It isn't clear from the original post *where* this person found the address and phone number. However, anyone can look up the birth announcements in the paper, copy the names down, and easily look in the local phone book for the addresses. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the local formula reps do this as part of their job duties. In most places, you have to specifically request that the paper *not* publish the birth information if you don't want it in the paper. Also, anyone whose phone number and address are listed in their local phone book in the US also has that information listed in numerous places on the Internet. These sites are quite useful for looking up old boyfriends (less so for old girlfriends, who often change their names when they marry), old co-workers, old school teachers, old neighbors, etc. Several examples are: switchboard.com and anywho.com Some will even print out a map to the house, though the map to our old house in the country would not have gotten anyone to our house! If your phone number is unlisted, then you aren't on these sites. Kathy Dettwyler ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:02:12 EST Reply-To: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> From: Carol Brussel <[log in to unmask]> Subject: australian politics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit i must say, i couldn't resist - my letter to the young liberals - isn't the internet great? you can harass political parties around the globe. Greetings to everyonein Oz I just read that your party wishes to institute fines for breastfeeding in public. I am so astounded. From where I sit in the United States, Australia looks like a paradise for forward-thinking people, since your breastfeeding rates are wonderful and the attitude towards breastfeeding is so much more enlightened than here. What can you be thinking? Is someone having a sudden fit of Americanization? So, would you be fining the baby for eating, or the mother for feeding? Perhaps this all a misunderstanding, and you are actually proposing to fine people for feeding their children unhealthful, non-species-specific fluids in unhygienic, silicon or pthylate-contaminated bottles? It will be interesting to see if such a law actually gets passed; then I guess we will be calling you the United States of Australia, our sister country in backwardness. Carol Brussel IBCLC ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:30:53 -0500 Reply-To: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> From: sharie aikins <[log in to unmask]> Subject: LC salary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need some help. I know salaries aren't to be discussed but I need help. My hospital has just given me a 20 hour a week position as the hospital LC!! I wrote the proposal, did the BSC study, became certified and wrote my job description. Now they are willing to pay me a fair LC rate but I have to find out what that is! My hospital has about 700 deliveries a year. Our county has a population of 14,000. I am an RN, IBCLC. If anyone is a hospital based LC in a hospital that does about 700 deliveries could you please E-mail me privately? Sharie [log in to unmask] ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:58:11 -0500 Reply-To: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]> From: NECSI <[log in to unmask]> Subject: nursing in class Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Just had to add a word here. A couple of years ago when I was in grad school, I wnated to ake a women's studies course and asked if I would be able to bring my baby (who was due just as the semester was beginning) to class. I explained that the baby would be sleeping or nursing etc. etc. She refused, saying that *I* would be distracted by the baby. I discussed it with the head of the women's studies program who said that she couldn't go against what the professor had said and offered me her office so that a sitter could watch the baby while I was in class. When I wrote a letter to the head of the program I mentioned that a friend of mine had brought her newborn to a criminology class all semester with support from the prof. and there were no problems. The irony of the fact that I was closed out of a women's studies class because I couldn't bring my newborn was lost on her!!! I guess we still have a long way to go. Naomi Bar-Yam