That old saw used to be thrown in my face in the 1970s everytime I discussed adoptive nursing. No evidence ever GIVEN to prove that the baby of the non-adoptive mother would have such a reaction. In fact, when my eyebrows went to the sky and I asked, why would this not happen when the milk of a DIFFERENT SPECIES is given, the docs who raised this objection never did give me an answer, satisfactory or otherwise. I suspect this is one more of those sacrificial statements without any justification whatever, but which sounds good when stated, particularly in pompous manner (perhaps with chest thrown out and/or hands on hips!) so there.... mailto:[log in to unmask] "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Ferndale, WA USA) [log in to unmask] WEB PAGE: http://www.telcomplus.net/kga/lactation.htm LACTNET archives http://library.ummed.edu/lsv/archives/lactnet.html