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"Sara D. Roos" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:39:22 -0700
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Hi Y'all,

I've been remiss in not introducing myself though I've posted a few 
times.  It feels a little wacky to introduce oneself to 2000+ people. 
Suddenly I feel myself internet-shy.

Working backwards, I am currently a LLL Leader in West Los Angeles, 
ground zero for global pop-entertainment:  all those lousy television 
depictions of bf and parenting?  That's coming from moms and/or 
parents on "my" watch.  SORRY!!!!!  Unfortunately I'm afraid I'm 
unlikely to ever be able to reach them as well-enough as another who 
is more culturally similar.  I am undoubtedly not cut of the 
SoCal/Hollywood cloth and while it's sort of OK for one's LLL Leader 
to be "different", the influence of a strange stranger only goes so 
far.  And hence the preponderance of mind-numbingly ignorant 
depictions of detached mothering coming from the imaginative depths 
of single and obsessively-employed 20-somethings.

Before-kids I was a PhD candidate in epidemiology, MS(s) in 
biostatistics and (environmental) molecular biochemistry.  My husband 
is a geologist/evolutionary biologist, during the mutual study of 
which we met way-long ago in Chicago.

Signing on to lactnet is my way of exploring the world of bf advocacy 
a little more closely as I enter the "non-lactating" phase of life. 
Prior to kids, as an academic it had *never occurred* to me that 
'lactation' could ever be considered one of life's significant 
inflection points.  Now, from the other side, I'm trying to decide 
whether to carry on acknowledging this reality or sink blithely away 
into a world dedicated to other concerns.  Some of those might 
include local politics, cancer research, or various other life-long 
hobbies (fiber-arts, "traditional" music and dance).

I am enjoying reading the wealth of knowledge posted here daily.  And 
I'm still very unclear about the intersection of ILCA, LLL, IBCLCs 
and beyond.  The political pullings going on here are rather 
bewildering and I find the implications a little hard to fathom in 
terms of my own position in LLL.  But this too, I'm sure, will pass. 
Thanks for so much forthright fact-flinging and opinionating.

-- 
	-Sara in West L.A., USA.

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