Dear Kathy, Take heart! There will be a workshop next February to spear more momentum for Baby Friendly efforts in the United States. Breastfeeding Support Consultants has invited Minda Lazarov to facilitate a preconference workshop next February 28th on Baby Friendly to preceed BSC's North American Conference in Nashville. We're not sure how the day will unfold at this point and I'm sure Minda would welcome any thoughts from Lactnetters on how to give the best punch to the message. If anyone needs Minda's phone number or address, e-mail me privately. I know she would enjoy hearing from you. BSC continues to promote Baby Friendly efforts in our courses, as I'm sure other educators are doing as well. While it may seem to be a grass roots effort at the present time, we are all aware that the very promotion of breastfeeding started at the same level. We're trying to reverse decades of a bottle feeding culture. In the great scheme of things, we can all take pride in our participation in this effort. There may be times of discouragement and frustration. But if we keep our focus on our goal, we can achieve it. Gee, I'm not sure where all that hype came from. Probably my way of getting myself focused on the revision of Counseling the Nursing Mother. Yes, believe it or not, Candy Woessner and I are finally embroiled in a major revision of the book. Keep positive thoughts coming our way. We hope it will be out before the end of the year (in the publishing world that is quite an ambitious goal!). Encouragingly, Judi Lauwers BSC Executive Director