I just started a Breastfeeding Task Force at our hospital and we are in the progress of plannning little events from 11:30-1:30 Monday 8/2 through Friday 8/6 in our lobby. This is the first year we will officially celebrate (I am organizing it since I was finally hired as a full time Lactation Consultant a few months ago). We will have a quiz board for people to answer questions and receive a treat. We have some canvas breastfeeding bags from the Learning Curve. We have rattles in pink, blue and yellow that say: Breastfeeding is Best! and our hospital name on the other side. One day we will discuss baby wearing and have moms come with babes in nice natural slings. We will probably give out milky way bars and milk duds to the staff after they answer inpromptu questions during the day. They will get a milky way if they answer correctly and a milk dud for wrong answers. We are having a bake sale one day (we would like to use the money to put toward a fund for pump rental if a mom can't afford it). We will have give aways all week long for moms-to-be and nursing moms to register for. The drawings will be on Fri 8/6 along with a nursing moms fashion show. I have lots of moms from support group who will participate! Some of the give-a-ways will be breastfeeding books, nursing pillows, cotton bra pads, collection storage bags for the back to work mom, a gift certificate to our Lactation Center for a consult or product rental/purchase, a massage for mom, free infant massage class for parents and baby, aromatherapy, relaxation music, Natural Food store certificates, hair cut for mom and first cut for baby, etc. We will give out 8 of Ruth Lawrences book to 8 Peds offices 9drawing (we may need to rig this one!!). We will also have coloring books for the children which show mothers nursing their babies. We are hoping all goes well, as everyone is wondering what WBW is all about! I'm off to Orlando Sat AM. This is my first LLLI conference, so glad it is only hours from my home. Sincerely, Pam Hendrix, RN, IBCLC, ICCE *********************************************** 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