Tina, What a great post ! My feelings and experience exactly ! Coaxing the mother to hang in is so important, and providing a perspective that she doesn't have - that most babies do latch on eventually. One baby I worked with didn't latch on until 13 weeks. She had a very determined mother - young, 26 years old, who after all our initial interventions opted to bottle feed but kept offering the breast. One day the baby just did it ! I love the support group idea. The mother of the baby I just mentioned did come to my regular new mother group. She was so proud after a couple of sessions when she bottle fed and was urged to keep trying by the other Moms, to finally attend with her baby at breast. Beverley Rae, MSW CSW IBCLC private practice, Manhasset, NY