Dear Susan, My advice to you would be to continue seeing the moms of Dr. Trendy unless your feelings are so strong that they overcome your ability to be professional. In that case, or if you are just too frustrated, then pass them to someone else. Where I live the doctors rarely refer moms to get breastfeeding help (either an IBCLC or calling LLL, etc.). I have tried to do private practice for 2.5 years now and just recently gave it up. Simply because without support from the medical community or from the mothers themselves, it is not a profitable and happy enterprise. I did have two out of maybe 40 area pediatricians who would routinely refer moms to me, but rarely would their patients book appointments ("breastfeeding is too difficult"). I send a physician report every time but it did no good in getting referrals. On follow-up every one of my clients said my services were extremely helpful and they were happy to have used me, so I know it isn't my personality! Best wishes, Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html