Hello to all.  It is good to be back on Lactnet after a very hectic summer
leading up to the opening of our wonderful new  Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin
and the publication of The Breastfeeding Atlas.  It felt like having twins!

I am responding to the post about the chance to speak to the meeting of
doctors.  A question and answer format always makes for a lively event.  I
have done these and started out saying something like:  "There is so much
information and misinformation about bfg.  Here is your chance to ask the
questions which trouble you, or which your patients repeatedly ask, or which
you'd like an update on."  Oddly enough, most of the things I'd prob. script
in (like how to handle mastitis, sick mom or baby, drugs, etc) get asked.
In this format, it all seems really spontaneous and can be funny and
enjoyable.  If I get a question I can't answer, I ask that person to pass me
up their card and I get back to them on it.  If you have a resource table
with some books like Tom Hale's drug books and pamphlets with milk storage
info and the like, then they can walk away with new tools that help them
look smart to their patients.  We all like looking smart.

I think a lot of docs are very resistant to being TOLD anything about bfg.
Its the cultural blocks we all sense, and they seem to say yeah, yeah and go
right on doing what they always do.  But they seem more open to
CONVERSATIONS about bfg.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSEd, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates, Austin, Texas
http://www.jump.net/~bwc/lactnews.html

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