I also have had two miscarriages while nursing. However, I also had a successful pregnancy breastfeeding my first child. Not one problem at all. Maybe that helps me to look for other reasons for the miscarriages than brf. And I have plenty. Both miscarriages occured right after I got a nasty stomach flu. Everyone in the family had it. The first miscarriage occured when we were under incredible stress, which continued for quite a while. Then my father died - another very stressful situation. A month after that I had an hormonal imbalance - break through bleeding. My doctor wanted to assume immediately that it was brf that caused it - I knew better. Once my stress was manageable, I noticed that I got break through bleeding only after eating dairy. I confirmed this several times, and other causes ruled out. When I kept the dairy completely out for 4-5 months, I got pregnant again (this is now years since my first miscarriage). I ended up miscarrying a little earlier. But this recent miscarriage has me so exicted - I was worried I was going through early menopause (44 yrs old). The fact that I produced an egg, fertilized it, it implanted, etc. even if it didn't pan out, I now have hope that I can have another baby! Anyway, back to my point - I think it is easy to fear breastfeeding as the cause of bad things. Even if my brf. is affecting it, there are certainly other factors involved here, and working on them is a better choice than weaning. And if brf isn't the reason, then weaning can be a real loss for the mother and baby. This point was clearly made when the bleeding started with my first miscarriage. Should I wean immediately? If I had, it would have done no good, as the untrasound ultimately showed the baby had died two weeks before. How would I have felt if I weaned immediately? Women choose to let their children wean naturally, and choose not wean although they desire to have another child or become pregnant, because they know that their child, that is here, has a very important need. My children were just not ready to wean. To take this away would have been a real loss, and would have made my life much harder. Elizabeth N. Baldwin, Esq. Phone: 305-944-9100 Home office: 305-940-7873 Fax: 305-949-9029 E-mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Attorney specializing in breastfeeding and the law; Leader Internet Communications of America, Inc.