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"Jan Barger RN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:53:26 EST
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Jack wryly (?) pontificates:

<< "Breastfeeding! Are you good enough? Breastfeeding, it's not for everyone,
 but if you are willing to face the challenge of your life, go for it. No
 lack of hospital staff ready to throw obstacles in your way. You will be
 buffetted by poor information. You will be mocked for your persistence. You
 will doubt the wisdom of what you are doing. It will be painful, it will be
 exhausting. Even your family will turn against you.

 "But if you get through it, you will have lived the experience of your life.

 "Breastfeeding: It's not for just anyone."
  >>

Neither is parenting.  Challenge of your life?  Unprepared?  You bet.  Wanna
take on something that will tear your guts out?  Wrench your heart -- and yet
bring you unimaginable joy?  Have a baby.  Better yet, grow that baby into a
child -- and then into an adult.  Not for the faint-of heart.  Parenting isn't
for cowards (and yes, that title comes from a Focus on the Family book).
Neither is breastfeeding.  Hmmmm.... I wonder.   Could Jack be onto something
here?

Marketing.  As in real estate -- it's all location, location, location.
Breastfeeding?  It's in the challenge.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC  -- BTW, I think Chele Marmet says she was the first
to conceptualize the field of lactation consulting.  Therefore, one needs to
ask her about the title "Lactation Consultant."  And for those of you who keep
up with the weather world wide -- it is RAINING here in Wheaton, and the snow,
which this morning was nearly to knees, has begun to slink away in wet
disgust.

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