I wonder when folks here on Lactnet talk about a "high breastfeeding rate", are they talking about following up mothers and babies after discharge from the hospital and those dyads are continuing to breastfeed? Here, there is no tool for following up- so a nurse at a local hospital might think that there is a high breastfeeding rate because she can check off "breastfeeding" on the chart, but in fact the mom comes home and is *not* nursing- happens ALL the time!!! That's when I get the call. Lisa Jones in Wellington FL - also a volunteer survey-taker for the first tracking tool our county has had, ever, to see if moms are breastfeeding "still" at six months postpartum. The sad answer to that is almost 98% *no*(guesstimating the %, but I am awfully close!) *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html