> Teresa Pitman wrote:
> I have worked for many years, on and off, in the child welfare system (child
> protective services in the U.S.). Many of the social workers are childless
> young women (and a few young men) who tend to be concerned about anything
> that doesn't fit into the textbook parameters.

When I still was active leading LLL meetings, we once had a new mom attending
who was totally confused since she became mother. She'd been a child wellfare
nurse for years and years and she kept repeating: What have I learned all these
mothers all these years, it's just all not thrue, babies aren't like that at
all. She almost got really depressed because she *as a mother* learned that
she'd been telling *as a nurse* all the ''wrong'' things to moms about eating,
sleeping and the rest.
Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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