Susan Potts wrote: << Just to share a sweet family joke. My dh was raised on a dairy farm in North Dakota. I tease him that now it is my turn to work in the lactation field! Whenever I speak of mastitis, engorgement, plugged ducts, colostrum............he knows exactly what I am talking about!>> When I returned to work after my DD was born, I was "requested" to attend an overnight board meeting. Megan was 2 months old at the time and I was pumping 3-4 times during the work day. My supervisor scheduled in breaks, which the chairman took back out. I simply left the meeting when I felt I needed to, and joked that if anyone asked where I was going I would just tell them. The reason I would have felt comfortable doing this was that the board members were mainly from rural areas of Pennsylvania which is populated with many dairy farmers. Some of the board members themselves were dairy farmers. They know that cows *need* to be milked regularly so I felt they would understand that I did too. To add to the working/BF discussion, I feel that a sense of humor is as essential as the determination to make it work. My office door had a Do Not Disturb Sign and a stuffed cow that hung from the doorknob. When anyone asked when I was going to stop *doing that* I simply replied, "when Megan is a year old or you start buying her formula" That was not an option BTW. :-) I exclusively BF/bottled EBM for 5 ½ months, and pumped until she was 13 months. She did not have any ABM. She weaned at ~20 months. And to add to the pacifier discussion, I strongly feel that if we had weaned her from that when she was under a year, she would have nursed longer. At almost 3 years old, she still sleeps with her 'bink'. Jennifer Mowatt Nursing Mothers' Counselor *********************************************** 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