On Thursday, amidst our great National sorrow, my hospital like many institutions across the country had a bomb threat. Over the years that I have worked there, I have experienced many such threats but have never seen an evacuation before. This time, in light of recent events, selected areas of the hospital were evacuated. In our Intermediate Intensive Care Nursery, staff and families switched IV pumps to battery, activated oxygen tanks and calmly removed all 20 babies to a parking lot across the street. We did not have time to bring ABM and expressed breast milk with us. The mothers did bring their breasts, however. My wonderful colleagues, Kathi Saenz and Melanie Ashworth, fellow lactnetters, tucked tiny babies into kangaroo care to keep them warm on an uncharacteristically chilly Northern CA afternoon and gave a crash course in hand expression. We then fed these babies, too small to go to breast, their mother's milk. It was a wonderful moment in a chaotic week. Lowest tech prevailed, mothers were empowered and the staff maintained the utmost calm to reassure the families that their babies were being safely cared for. A warm chest and mother's milk sustained some of our patients. I believe the work we do is fine. It has helped me during this difficult week. My heart and deepest regard go out to my Lactnet colleagues across the country. I hope you are all safe with your loved ones. Kathy Boggs, RN, IBCLC Mountain View, CA *********************************************** 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