Thanks so much to all who emailed me your suggestions for the Women's Center Dream List. Our initial brainstorming session went well. There will be much more brainstorming ahead for "the committee". If any other ideas have come to you, please feel free to email me with them since all ideas will be gratefully accepted and discussed. Briefly, it appears there will be a nice complement of women's health services. It will NOT include a free-standing birth center, as some of you asked, since there's one close by and all of the local hospitals offer LDR/birthing rooms, most staffed with a number of CNM's. There will be lots of educational programs (including prenatal, breastfeeding, baby care, parenting, perimenopausal, cardiovascular fitness, massage, pre and postnatal exercise, perinatal grief support, stress reduction, weight loss groups, and more). There will be child care available while moms come in for services. The child care concept was presented by the newest and youngest ob/gyn involved - and received a standing ovation! Your most frequent email suggestion was to include massage services and stress reduction - so I offer you, in thanks for your ideas, a cybermassage and a suggestion to take a deep breath when you read this and take time today, tomorrow, or soon to stop and smell the @-->-->----- 's! You guys are great! Joyce Blangiardo RN, FACCE, IBCLC Rockville Centre, NY [log in to unmask]