>>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
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