This is my first time posting, though I am a frequent lurker.
I am an IBCLC working in private practice since 2008 and a La Leche League 
Leader since 2000. I currently work as an aide to midwives in a community 
birthing centre. Not long ago a midwife told me that she advises her tandem 
nursing clients to make sure that if the older baby/toddler gets ill, that the 
babies not nurse from the same breast. This seems counterintuitive to me. I 
couldn't find anything in the archives about how viruses can or can not be 
transmitted during tandem nursing. This midwife insists that the saliva from the 
toddler caused one of her client's newborn babies to fall ill and require 
hospitalization. Could any of you point me in the direction of some information 
that would either confirm that it is good practice to make the children each 
have their own breast. 

Thank you!
 Kimberley MacKenzie, LLLL, IBCLC
Montreal, Quebec, Canada



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