Just had to share this: my colleague and I were recently invited to address
the January session of pediatric grand rounds.  (For those of you who are
non-hospital people, every month physicians and residents in each speciality
area have a speaker who spends about an hour discussing a topic of interest
to that group in a formal presentation.)  Never mind that we were invited
only because someone else cancelled out two weeks ago. <G>

My colleague (who was so nervous that she referred to the session as "ground
rounds"--she figured that's what we'd be after they finished with us) planned
a brief presentation on the immune components of breast milk, based on Dr.
Newman's wonderful article in Scientific American.  Then I did a very basic
case study of a baby with poor weight gain whose mom used an SNS to increase
her supply--nothing the least bit new to an LC group, but quite novel for
docs.

The peds at our hospital have been very agreeable to the policy changes I
wrote several years ago--no water, ad lib feeds, etc--but I think they've
been under the impression that we're basically just cheerleaders for
undecided moms, with airy ideas, no theory, and no particular skills.  They
do like the two of us, though, and I'm sure most of them stayed-- we weren't
announced in advance--only to keep from hurting our feelings.

Anyway, the presentation was very well received--total attention, plenty of
eye contact, laughter at the appropriate places, and plenty of good questions
afterwards.  The organizers were very pleased (and probably as surprised as
the rest of the peds) that it was actually an interesting and informative
presentation.  They said it was the biggest attendance they've had in months.
We were smug all day long.  If--no, I mean *when* we're invited again, I
think we'll do something on Dr. McKenna's work with cosleeping and SIDS.

I know this is long, but I just had to share this with those of you who will
understand.

Judy Dunlap (in snowy, then warm, then flooded, and now icy West Virgina)