Annette, the year I had a "Breastfeeding Saves Healthcare Dollars" bumper
sticker on my car, I found out that, aided & abetted by my dh, the kids put
black construction paper over it when they were going to be driven to school one
day.  Then the paper came off, I never knew about it until much  later.
Tim's friends used to call up to get our voice mail just to hear me  say the "b"
word.  (They needed to get a life).  Both Tim &  another of his friends would
call periodically pretending to be young mothers in  distress.  Tim actually
had me going for awhile -- dang, but he was  good!  He was "Cindy" who needed a
breastpump for preterm twins.  Sam  was "Lisa" that had sore nipples.  (I
recognized his voice).  But they  all redeemed themselves when they wrote me a
breastfeeding rap that we put in  the ILCA Globe back in the days when it was a
bit more chatty than it is  now.

And one other time Torrey was having a party -- all the kids were
congregating in the kitchen (of course) when the phone rang and it was one of my
clients.  With a death look on her face, Torrey came over and said, "Don't  you DARE
say breast or nipple during this conversation."  It's a bit tough  to answer
some questions with those restrictions, but we managed.....actually, I  think
it was just a call about storing breastmilk -- no biggie.

The kids are a lot older now, and the voice mail STILL has the "B" word on
it.  I don't have ANY bumper stickers on my car, and the kids talk about
breastfeeding freely to their friends.

Tim has probably gotten the most mileage out of my job -- around his high
school it was acknowledged that "Tim's mom is a breast doctor."  They  couldn't
quite get their heads around "lactation consultant" though I had  consulted w/
quite of few of their moms with their younger siblings!  And  Tim got a few
papers and speeches out of it.

So -- leave your license plate Annette....your daughter will either decide
driving isn't all that important, or she can live with the enormous
embarassment  (in her eyes) that driving a "breastmobile" will cause her.  And you will
all get a good chuckle out of it one of these days.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Wheaton  IL
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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