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« Preventing Youth Violence | Main | It's college rejection season again » Wednesday, April 4, 2007Even more on nursing mothersJanna Frelich is one of the few readers I've heard from who's been able to move the "Supply and Demand" story forward. She's got first-hand experience to show the numbers of long-term nursers are increasing. Here's part of her email: "I'm co-Leader of the Boston La Leche League International group and just last week for the second time in the last 3 years at our Area Conference up in Chelmsford, I co-led a session on "Extended/Long-term Nursing". The first year of the Extended talk in 2005, we had 25 women attend; the 2nd year (2006), we weren't scheduled to give the talk, but several women emailed me to complain saying they needed the support and I held a mini-Extended session for 45 minutes in-between the morning speaker and the 1st session. The third year, I said to the organizers, you HAVE to have this session and we had 27 (mostly new) women sign up again. Obviously, there's a trend happening here! Some were professional moms (academics, business people, self-employed) and some were stay-at-homes; some worked full-time, others part-time." Meanwhile, many of you have recommended sites for nursing moms. Here's one I particularly like: The Breastfeeding Cafe. Posted by Barbara Meltz at 12:31 PM
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