I've been using the same method to talk about breastfeeding advantages in my childbirth classes for the past seven years. We make a chart - advantages of breastfeeding/breastmilk baby mom dad advantages of artificial baby milks/bottle feeding baby mom dad It doesn't take very long for the class to make their conclusions...("Aren't there ANY advantages of bottlefeeding for babies?" "Well...we don't have any listed...I can't think of any, can you?") The breastfeeding initiation rate is probably about 90% in my classes (a skewed sample, mostly middle class whites in a small town with many old hippies - so lots of these people were breastfed!). Many quit sooner than they'd like...a recent hospital survey found that 50% felt they needed breastfeeding help at home. Certainly couples are most focused on L&D at this point. But I find that giving just a bit of breastfeeding info each week (a la Sarah Coulter Danner's articles in Childbirth Educator probably back in 1989) works well. And dads are usually just realizing they're really pregnant right around 28-30 weeks - the time when most are starting childbirth classes. I find dads from my classes are big breastfeeding boosters. (And sometimes I get phone calls from the nurse manager of the Birthing Center telling me to back off on the breastfeeding talk - I'm an independent educator who teaches all the classes at the hospital.) And a Shakespeare quote about Lactnet (via Madeline L'Engle): Oh wonderful, wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all whooping :-) Dawn M. Kersula, IBCLC, FACCE ([log in to unmask])