Annelies: In all fairness to physicians, some of the responsibility for their practice methods must be borne by the parents who want to be "given something" to make thier child better. Parents who insist that the physician DO SOMETHING..... Unfortunately sometimes there is nothing to DO but to let the system heal itself/ breastfeeding is tough as most physicians don't know how to help... they probably would if they could but the don't know how... and admitting that they don't know is a very scary position... not just for physicians. realize too that many do not know that we exist/who we are or what we do {maybe this is someting our professional organization should work on!} Patricia *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html