Well...not exactly!  I took a day off today to take my family and a few extra
kids to see the Statue of Liberty.  I was wearing my ultra-fashionable "Feel
the Love:  Breastfeed" T-Shirt.  A worker on the ferry came up to me and
said, "I like your shirt.  My wife's doing that right now.  We have a 3 week
old baby."
   I smiled and congratulated the proud papa, who then told me, "It was very
hard in the beginning...".
   "I'm glad she kept with it", I encouraged.  To which he replied, "We had a
cons..., a couns..., a lact..."
    "Lactation Consultant?", I offered.
     "That's it!", with relief.  She was great.  A really nice person, too.
 It helped so much to have her.  And now breastfeeding is going well."
      Isn't that nice to hear?  One of us made a difference to the wife of a
maintenance worker on the Liberty Island Ferry and now he is a beaming
breastfeeding advocate as well as a proud papa.
    Happy World Breastfeeding Week, one and all.
    -Debi Page Ferrarello, RN, IBCLC
      Back home in the Philadelphia suberbs