My heart and thoughts are with Katrina survivors - as a mom who has had to look confident when scared (driving in ice storms, isolated by snow storms, and dealing with hurricanes), I cannot imagine dealing with this long-term stressor. ...and I plan to stock up (even more than I already have) as Barbara mentioned and learn how to improvise - we are all susceptible to one emergency or another -earthquakes, ice storms, tornadoes, etc. I've lived all over the US and know there wasn't one place I lived that didn't have one risk or another... I hope I am not considered insensitive by starting another thread - I'm working on developing tools to promote the model hospital policies in California - (http://www.mch.dhs.ca.gov/documents/pdf/Model_Hospital_Policy_Recommendations.pdf) and wondered what would YOU recommend be used to encourage mothers to WANT to exclusively breastfeed in the hospital and health care professionals to encourage it? (Policy #4) I have a lot of references from studies, but I'm wondering about any favorite handouts or materials (preferably web-based). Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC (Who just heard from her cousin in Louisiana - he and his wife and daughter are fine...) *********************************************** 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