>>Do any others of you get weird looks or made to feel like a pervert >>when you tell them what you do?<< Okay, friends, I can no longer resist. I can't even begin to tell you how even weirder it is to be unmarried, and beginning to date, and try to explain to someone you've never met what you do for a living!!! Yes, dears, it happened to me. I met a gentleman for coffee one Saturday morning. I told him what I do for a living and braced myself. He has 3 grown children and launched into a story about how wonderful breastfeeding is and his ex-wife never had any problems and aren't I some sort of saint or something. Well he should have left the story at that, but no, he has to go on and describe how his wife never had a problem with breastfeeding - well, except for the last one. He said, "With the third child, she was SO engorged, and she wouldn't let me have the excess milk!" I put on my very best empathetic face, pulled deeply from my resources and said, "That must have been very distressing for you." P.S. I decided I didn't need a date that badly. Jeanne B. Fisher, MSN, RN, IBCLC Breastfeeding Promotion Nurse Texas Department of Health (512)406-0744 [log in to unmask]