>How about breastfeeding drop-in centres, well-baby clinics and a LC contact for every single mother who has a new baby?< As long as we are taking breastfeeding out of the medical setting of the hospital, how about remembering to be very careful not to make LCs into the new medical profession with the ownership of breastfeeding knowledge? Pat Hoddinott in her MA thesis, based on her work with women in the East End of London (see also her article in the Jan 1999 BMJ) suggests antenatal apprenticeships for women with others of their community who are breastfeeding as a more productive way forward that increased activity by health professionals. She also talks about women valuing the real and practical experience of health professionals, when they do offer this, rather than the theoretical or formal. When we reclaim breastfeeding knowledge on behalf of women we have to remember not to take it away from where it is now and forget to hand it on. As lay breastfeeding supporters one of our explicit aims has always been to ultimately do ourselves out of a job, because we are working for breastfeeding knowledge to become re-embedded back in the embodied discourse of everywoman. Magda Sachs Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN , UK *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html