Elisheva wrote: < I guess what you are saying, basically, is, Probably she's just a more anxious type of person -- that this seems to you an primarily emotional respnse on the baby's part, rather than a respiratory issue.> Well, no. That seems sort of like labeling the baby, and devaluing the overhelming, devastating chemical experience of oxygen desaturation by categorizing it as "primarily an emotional response on the baby's part". Suffocation is more than an emotional response. It is a horrifying physical sensation, blood stream unable to deliver oxygen to the brain or anything else, catacholamine levels high, effecting heart beat, blood pressure, fruitless respiratory efforts. regardless if it's from a respiratory defect or from smothering or choking, aspiration, what have you. For the baby's sake, I hope there is no actual respiratory defect found. But any episode of near-choking on an overwhelming flood of milk cascading into the area of the epiglottis and trachea, I think must be a horrifying physical sensation. Just MHO. Jean ************ K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC Dayton, Ohio USA ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. *********************************************** 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