I am heartened to see several physicians (whether pediatricians or not) posting on Lactnet. Thank you so much for all your input and your positve suppport of breastfeeding and mothers. As a lactation consultant (as well as a LDRP nurse), I work with physicians from birth forward. It is often so difficult to work o hard with a mother and baby (to get the breastfeeding off to a smooth start), only to have it undermined by physicians with minimal training (or interest). It never ceases to amamze me how little information (or accurate information) these physicians have on the breastfeeding process. Now I know that we all have our interests and our area(s) of expertise. However, as health care providers working with childbearing women , we all have to have a basic working knowledge of lactation; especially if we are going to encourage, promote and support breastfeeding. As physicians, could you give me some feedback on this and help those of us working with "undereducated" physicians (as well as nurses) to encourage lactation education among our physician colleagues. There are just so many times that we short-change our mothers and babies and it seems that we could be doing things to improve this situation. Thanks. I do not mean for this topic to have a negative tone. I am always looking for ways to assist our colleagues so that we are all on roughly the same page when it comes to breastfeeding support. Betsy Riedel RNC, IBCLC Connecticut *********************************************** 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