I could not resist adding 2 cents to K. Catone's comments about college
kids (and high schoolers!) using breastfeeding as the topic for papers,
etc.

Shortly after "the doorstop" (BF and Human Lactation) came out, I arranged
to send a copy to my (then college-age) son.  Before putting it in the
mail, I asked him (with fear and trembling) if he was going to place it in
his book shelf or hide it in the closet!

He said, ON THE SHELF!  Then, "will it answer the question my friends keep
asking--about why their mothers could not nurse them?"  I breathed a huge
sigh of relief and it would do that.

Three months later, on a visit, there it was big as life in the middle of
the top bookshelf where all could not miss it!  AND, several of his friends
wanted to meet me, one of the authors!  What a hoot.

I like to think that what we give our children (milk, love, closeness, and
KNOWLEDGE) comes back around many fold as they proselytize their age-mates
quite unconsciously and as a matter of fact.

Although at 15 he wanted to know how to tell his friends what I did for a
living without using the word "breast," once he got a bit older, that was
no longer an issue and I then became "my mom, the world's expert on
breastfeeding!" a title I overheard him use when I was (you guessed it) on
the phone with a mom with sore nipples!

Each ofyou influence far more people than you know.  Through our children
is but one of those myriad ways.




Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]
WEB PAGE: http://www.mcs.com/~auerbach/lactation.html