Your post interested me because I am seeing an 8 month old girl who has been exclusively breastfed. She developed cervical lymphadenitis with two abscesses that tested positive for strep. She has been on Cephtrioxone IV daily for one week and now has about 5 days to go. On the 5th day she developed a pink bottom. Today it is bright red, but the skin is dry and intact and doesn't seem to bother her. I suspect this may be yeast. What do you think? Mom said baby had thrush through most of the first month of life, but mother has not had any problem with yeast infections. This is the same baby I wrote about several days ago. She had another aspiration of the abscesses under sedation yesterday. Mother nursed her until two hours before the procedure and as soon as she indicated she wanted to nurse after she woke up. This time was easier for both Mom and baby and everything went well. The staff again insisted on NPO for 8 hours before the procedure, but Mom disregarded this and the staff remarked at how relaxed and good humored the baby seemed to be this time. Mom tried not to give it away! Thanks to those who replied to my request. Diane Perrone Materna Wellborn Algonquin IL USA *********************************************** 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