Recent posts about chewing gum and nursing reminded me of a story. I have heard several moms comment that their nursing toddler who also chewed gum (let's not get sidetracked in a discussion of the reasons to/not to let kids have gum-that's not the point here) insisted on "parking" the gum on mom's breast while nursing. Another mom had a nursing toddler who really loved his "binky" (pacifier) when not nursing. In fact he loved it so much that he wanted to share this marvelous object with Mommy. As a result, he insisted that she have the pacifier in her mouth while he was nursing! (Maybe that's like the people that think what goes in mom's mouth automatically goes right through the breast and into the milk. Perhaps this was his way of having both the nursing and the pacifier at the same time?) Anyway, she diceded that while it was annoying, the battles weren't worth it and she obliged. She reported an incident when she was nursing him in the car (before car seats) and of course, she had the pacifier in her mouth. They came to a stop sign by a bus stop. People at the bus stop couldn't see the toddler nursing, just the grown lady with a pacifier in her mouth. She called out the open window and said "I,m trying to quit smoking!" Linda Smith, feel free to use in your next collection of funny nursing stories. Winnie Mading IBCLC - in the 33 years I've worked with nursing moms/babies, I've heard a lot! *********************************************** 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