Jennifer: With regard to a mother taking responsibility for her own health care...Unfortunately, many OB practices actively market the "don't worry, honey, we'll take complete care of you" mentality. This is particularly true of the practices at my hospital. Women are told even prenatally (since many of our couples have fertility issues, the mind set can start well prenatally) that all they have to do is lay there and they will be "pampered". There is definitely a "ME" thing going on here. The night nurses are driven crazy by mothers who don't want to room in because they "need" their sleep. Of course, these are the same mothers who the next morning are filling my ears with "my baby won't nurse". No one sems to get the simple concept that a mom and baby is all it takes to nurse. It scares me to think that women can be so complacent about giving total control of their bodies and lives (baby's too!) over to another person. If anyone has any suggestions on how to approach this problem, I am more than happy to listen. Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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