Hello from Tacoma Washington, For those of you who do not know me, My name is Diane Herforth. I have 4 children ages 26,24,21,14. I have been active in the field of lactation for over 25 years. I was a LLL leader and took the first LC exam. I am the Northwest Reg. Rep. for ILCA. I consider myself road kill on the communication highway. I am being carried kicking and screaming down this road by my children and love it most of the time. I did freeze up my computer with all of these lovely messages and still have not read them all but I wanted to say a few things. I had so much fun at this ILCA conference. I am so enjoying getting back to childbirth education and being a Doula. Let me know if any of you were in my labor support break out. Goat's Milk - In the 70's, It was very popular to use goat's milk in this area. I had 2 babies hospitalized because of bloody stools from the goat's milk. These mothers were using raw milk from friends or their own goat. I do not know if the store goat milk would be different because these two mothers made me believe that human babies were not goats. Barometric Pressure - We don't have a lot of wind but we do get a lot of rain. I taught in a elementary/jr. high school in the central city. The principal had a barometer on his desk. He had us all convinced that when the pressure went down we were going to have a bad day, and when the pressure went up, we were going to have a good day. I never thought of it affecting babies. Interesting! Delayed Milk Production - In the last year or so, I have had about 3 or 4 mothers who have had a delayed milk production. Their milk did come in but it took over 7-8 days. One took about 2 weeks. They all had been induced with a large amount of pitocin, followed by an epidural and more pitocin, followed by a cesarian delivery and more pitocin postpartum. Our feeling was that these mothers got so much pitocin that their normal pituitary function was delayed. What do you all think? Well I had better stop for now. I hope this goes out to the right spot. It always amazes me when things go right. Diane