We're military (well hubby did his 20 years and got out in 2003 but 
still works for a contractor on base doing basically the same job) and 
in the squadron my husband works with, when a female enlisted gets 
pregnant, she if often put in the Geedunk to work (if she's in a 
mechanic type of position where there could be possible danger with 
climbing, heavy machinery, etc).  So he has an opportunity to talk to 
these gals when he goes to get a snack during his shift.  He has taken 
LLL pamphlets for our local LLL group to these moms, given them info 
about the Bradley Method classes, proudly boasted about my BFing our 
three kids and our home births, and given them our home phone number if 
they want to call and have me counsel them pre or post birth.  He's kind 
of got a bit of a reputation around work now!  One of the guys appeared 
at my DH's desk a few weeks back and said "I heard you might now 
something about breastfeeding".  His wife was having problems and for 
whatever reason she was too shy to call me or go to a LLL meeting so the 
husband asked my husband who called me and my hubby relayed the info.  
He said he's already told the guy what I told him to say but he said 
"She says what I just told you so I was right" but he also added some 
extra words of encouragement!  It's so neat to see that our families 
pick up on these things and it shows how just quietly going about our 
business does have an impact on people even if we don't think that 
anyone notices or cares.

Margo

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