Dear Lactnet, I am a board certified family physician. I am communicating with the AAFP re: Julie Moy's post about Bristol-Myers Squibb supporting their web homepage. When will we learn that drug companies do not do this out of the goodness of their corporate heart. It affects their bottom line or they wouldn't do it. But on to a related topic . . . I'd like to hear your wish list about what you wish family docs in particular (but pediatricians, CNMs, FNPs, PNPs, PAs as well--basically anyone who is likely to see newborns) KNEW, DID, COMMUNICATED, EDUCATED, REFERRED, etc. How can we better support the goal of breast feeding? What are we currently doing that gets in the way? Are there things that we do well? (pats on back greatly appreciated as well.) I'd appreciate your thoughts. I train family medicine residents, work collaboratively with several CNMs and LCs and work on our hospital's breast feeding group and am currently doing a study of intrapartum procedures (epidurals in particular) and breast feeding discontinuation--and I'd like to be able to give the folks I work with some clues about how to be better medical supporters of breast feeding. The kind of thing I'm thinking of would be along the lines of the following, but I'd be happy to hear all of your comments. "I wish that the local family doctors would realize that yeast is real and that the optimal treatment is X . . . I need them to respect my professional expertise and prescribe the appropriate treatment when I ask them to do so." Thanks in advance for your help. Valerie King Valerie J. King, M.D. Clinical Scholars Program CB# 7105 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7105 919-966-3717 Fax: 919-966-2274