Hello, thought I would respond to the waterbirth question. While I don't know of any medical studies on the effects of water birth & breastfeeding I can help with some of the other questions: Check out: www.waterbirth.org www.tubsntea.com www.activebirthcentre.com www.gentlebeginning.com www.aquadoula.com These are sites where you can rent or purchase tubs as well as get a wealth of information. Check out: www.birthpartners.com NARM~Can't remember the exact web address. American College of Nurse Midwives www.midwiferytoday.com ~also has back issues about water birth,books, videos, etc. These sites can help you locate a midwife, doula, etc. Check out www.CompleatMother.com~a web site with a vey holistic,&natural approach to birth, breastfeeding & parenting.Resources &links available. Check out www.motheringmagazine.com~another holistic magazine that has many back isues on waterbirth, homebirth, etc. Some influential people in the water/gentle birth "community" that you can probably just do an internet search on and get some info. are: Dr. Michel Odent Barbara Harper RN Frederick Leboyer Suzanne Arms A few good books: Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara harper RN Immaculate Deception by Suzanne Arms Birth Without Violence by frederick Leboyer A Good Birth, A Safe Birth by Diana & Scaer You may want to check out the ILCA webpage and do a search for back articles in the Journal of Human Lactation regarding water birth, not sure if you'll find anything but it's worth a shot! Hope this helps! Good Luck! Shannon McDunnell CLE,CIMI,Doula Candidate *********************************************** 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