Ladies
I just love reading your stories.
Attie Sandink Ontario, Canada
> On Apr 2, 2016, at 12:00 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. pondering
> 2. Tales from "Back in the day"
> 3. Tales.....
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> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:36:14 -0500
> From: Pat Young <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pondering
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> On 04/01/16, Nancy Mohrbacher wrote:
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> No, Pat, you are not the only one with this problem. I am also in the
> process of downsizing. (My too-large house goes on the market the first
> week of May.) I've been sorting and discarding since last summer. My
> attic was a nightmare and included *every* issue of LLL News. (The first
> book I edited, Learning a Loving Way of Life--now available for one cent
> on Amazon--was a compilation of its best stories.) And my collection of
> Leavens was gargantuan. I've decided to spare my three sons from dealing
> with my mess later, so I went on the LLL Leaders Facebook page and asked
> if anyone wanted my LLL publications collection. A Leader from PA
> offered to take them and it cost me $50 to mail them to her the cheapest
> possible way. I can't help but wonder if she regretted her moment of
> weakness when she tried to lift that box and bring it into her house.
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> Still lots of sorting and discarding to do. Wish me luck!
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> Warm regards,
> Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA
> Chicago suburbs
> www.NancyMohrbacher.com <http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/>
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> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 22:05:01 -0400
> From: Jan Barger <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Tales from "Back in the day"
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> Pat in SNJ, I've so enjoyed your stories. I do have to add mine. I was
> born in 1946. My baby book, from Better Homes and Gardens, was dutifully
> filled out by my mother with more things than anyone ever wants to know up
> until 4th grade....believe it or not. Anyway, my feeding schedule was
> 10-2-6-10-2-6-10. No deviation. The book even had a section for "baby cried
> from _______ to ______" That was an expectation. Mother was in the hospital
> for 10 days, came home, tried to breastfeed for another couple of days, but
> I cried so much (and, by the way, it was one breast only per feed....) she
> gave formula. And cereal at 2 weeks because that is what the Dr.
> recommended. (I found a book my pediatrician wrote published in 1971. He was
> still advocating cereal at 2 weeks then!!!!). I probably have a brain full of
> arsenic, now that I've read that article!!)
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> We were missionaries, and my parents went to China when I was 18 months old
> -- evacuated in 1949 and moved to Australia. There is where my mother
> learned how to breastfeed (though she still believed in schedules and
> cereal.....). She breastfed my sister for 6 months, my brother for 9, and my
> youngest sister for 12. Three guesses as to who is the most intelligent of the
> sibs!!
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> Two of my personal accomplishments that make me feel as though I've come
> full circle:
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> Speaking at the first ALCA (Australian Lactation Consultant Association
> Conference) in Canberra in 1992, and writing the section on breastfeeding for
> the new Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book.....
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> Jan
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> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 22:06:29 -0400
> From: Jan Barger <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Tales.....
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> Whoops -- sorry -- forgot to sign my name....
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> Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
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