To prepare for my travels I have started to collect the UK information base - who is saying what to fathers about breastfeeding. It turns out not many are saying much of anything, but there are still patches of good work. This work is not rolled out though, and one reason is the lack of evidence of their effectiveness. In this world of budget cuts and squeezed capacity I have found work that is promising, and some are really impressive, but the lack of longitudinal studies or a solid evidence base means that they wont get commissioned, so these good projects will lose out when it comes to funding or only survive for as long as the worker can carry on. One of the reasons I wanted to focus on breastfeeding and fathers was my own personal experience of being an expectant grandmother. My daughter was about six months pregnant and I attended an antenatal appointment with her. Her midwife handed me an invitation for a grandparents evening at the local maternity unit, an evening speciall