When I had my first baby, I was a member of the choir. The music minister's wife and I were due a week apart, and I had Chris before she had Adam. I returned to choir as soon as possible, and began pumping milk early every Sunday morning in order to leave him in the nursery; this was standard procedure, right? Everyone else left their babies with bottles, and I didn't question this routine. Until I watched Karen, the wife of the music pastor and a fellow choir member, quietly sneak out after we had sung one Sunday (she waited until sermon time, when people were getting settled). The next week I followed her, and discovered that she had left to breastfeed and take care of her baby. She would take him into the narthex and listen to the sermon from there, walking him and watching through the glass. Needless to say, I adopted her method quite fast and dropped the pumping and bottles stuff. It just had never occurred to me that I could cut out like that, and that it could be okay, but when I saw the music minister's own wife do it....... well, that's all I needed! -Lisa ************************************************* Lisa Marasco, BA, LLLL, IBCLC [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask] *************************************************