Seems Christy brought up a topic that many of us are in agreement about; namely that it is mom's decision. My experience with this situation was when a CLE in the NICU decided that it was cruel to have mom pump. She "forbade" our LC team from contacting this woman. I hadn't known of this baby. All I knew was I had a mom call me from the NICU wanting info on pumping. She had been asking different people about wanting to pump for a few days and had been handed off every time. I spoke to her very briefly (due to time/staffing constraints) to discuss it. I left a msg for the next LC on duty to please follow up. The next day I was reamed out by the CLE; for stepping on her turf, I guess. Baby did die a couple of days later, before I worked again. I doubt that mom ever did start pumping. I felt the whole thing was very dishonest. There apparently never was any doubt that this baby would die, but maybe someone could have had a real discussion with this mom before making a decision for her. *********************************************** 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