Yesterday I was at the grocery store. Met a colleague, an Ob/gyn who has BF her 3 children for nearly 10 years in total. She introduced me to her friend who was visiting from her current home abroad, and then said. 'I have to tell you a great breastfeeding story about her!'. Friend smiled, so I said sure, fire away. This friend had her first baby in 1974. BF was difficult, baby unhappy, mother sore, not enough milk. Her mother, who'd had 4 children of her own, was staying with her. Mother was advising longer between-meal intervals to 'save up more milk', and then went to a pharmacy to buy a pump to 'protect' her daughter's nipples because baby's sucking was so painful. Probably at that point it would have been a bicycle horn pump, too, but it never got that far. This was in Finnmark, the northernmost part of the country and the most sparsely populated. The grandmother asked for a pump, and the customer in line behind her asked what she needed it for. The grandmother told her. The woman turned out to be a member of the mother-to-mother BF support org. here and a volunteer counselor. She went back to the house with the grandmother and helped them sort it out. BF continued for a long time afterwards, to everyone's satisfaction. Twenty-seven years later, this woman remembers that volunteer with affection and gratitude, and enjoys hearing this story told to near-strangers in a supermarket. That's why we do it. We can't help it. Rachel Myr *********************************************** 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