On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 06:32 AM, THE FOGELMANS wrote: > If staying in bed all day will help a woman get through a fast, then > why not encourage it. I love this one:) but who will take care of the kids? << If having pumped milk available in the freezer gives her a sense of security, than why not. >> Because breastfed babies should be nursed. The rabbinical opinions should be based on what is normal for a breastfed infant. Not what is normal simply because of the recent invention of breastpumps. I laughed when my rabbi said to give my six month old expressed milk in a bottle. She wouldn't have dreamt of drinking milk via any other container at that age.....breastmilk for her was about nursing - the combination of food and nurturing *simultaneously*. To deprive her of millk from my breasts would have been wrong. She was totally accustomed to it. We're not talking about a baby who's mother went back to work early and had been getting milk via bottles for quite some time. The two things are entirely different. <<You just take the baby to bed for the day. Would any of you discourage that?>> I would *encourage* it. But there is the issue of other children and someone to care for them, feed them, entertain them etc. katherine in atl who started drinking water around 3 pm and had one mad 11 mo old due to the slow flow *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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