I have worked a lot with a mom whose baby was born with a diaphragmatic hernia. He is now 10 months old and doing beautifully. Mom is still pumping some breastmilk for him. He has never been able to very well at breast and also has a hard time swallowing just liquid, it needs to be thickened some. And there doesn't seem to be anything that can used to thicken breastmilk. She's even been in contact with Susan Boeckel who presented at ILCA last year on GI reflux for ideas. Anyway, if you ever come into contact with a mom prenatally who is carrying a baby with this problem, my mom would be glad to talk to and counsel her. Just let me know. Warmly, Pat Bucknell, IBCLC Avon Lake OH ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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