Over the past few years here in Scotland there has been an upsurge in 'breastfeeding support groups'. By which I mean not LLL or similar organisations, but groups based at health centres, clinics, and maternity hospitals, whose purpose is to allow mothers and their babies to get together and share experiences, offer support. Usually a health professional will be present, sometimes a lay breastfeeding counsellor. Some groups are postnatal only. A group in Paisley has used this idea to provide breastfeeding information antenatally as well. It is held in the local maternity hospital, run by midwives, and has pregnant women, mothers and babies all getting together. For part of the session, the pregnant women go into a different room with a midwife to talk about getting started, with particular emphasis on teaching positioning techniques. Originally the group met every 2 weeks, they now meet weekly due to demand. The next step is to get similar groups running in the community, recognising that not everyone finds a central location easy to get to. The Scottish Joint Breastfeeding Initiative (late lamented) produced helpful guidelines for such groups. Mary Broadfoot Paisley, Scotland