I joined Lactnet in 2003, when I began my 
dissertation on "The Milk of Human Kindness: 
Breastfeeding Policy in the US" at the University 
of California Berkeley. I have been on Lactnet 
ever since, through my too-brief career as a 
Research Scientist in the Breastfeeding Program 
of the California State Health Department's 
Maternal Child Health Branch.

In fact, I actually downloaded every one of those 
90,000 Lactnet posts (using Eudora email 
software). Thus I was able to do Rachel's search 
exercise just now on my own hard drive, not 
through the website. (Thank you for that 
exercise, btw! I had missed reading Jacqui's 
stunning 2008 post at the time.)

What a wealth of old and new, helpful and 
inspiring, breastfeeding-related posts right at 
my fingertips! I can't imagine ever using 
Facebook as a resource like this.

Perhaps the post I use the most is Dianne 
Weissinger's extortion to Watch Our Language. How 
important it is to be aware that the "Merchants 
of Doubt" have infiltrated our brains, so that we 
unconsiously say "Breastfeeding makes you 
smarter", rather than "Formula makes you 
stupider"! I've gone on to use that principal of 
the physiologic norm in other areas of 
child-rights activism too.

Tina

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Tina Kimmel, PhD, MSW, MPH
Oakland, California

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