Just to pull a couple of threads together. Recently I was waiting in an airport terminal to fly home from Adelaide where I'd been at the Uni there photocopying copius amounts of references. While I waited I read a paper that discussed supression of stress responses in women who were lactating and suggested that this may be due to higher prolactin levels (although they really didn't know exactly how it might work). Just as I sat there reading a woman, about my age came over with her two kids. One that was 6 and the other 12 months or so. I got talking to the little girl and her Mum, they were flying to Perth and their flight had been delayed, the mum had charge of the girls on her own, they were both busy inquisitive little people and I could see that the mum might have been a bit concerned that the trip was going to be difficult. The little one went over to her Mum and helped herself to a breastfeed. I was suprised because it's not the sort of thing you see every day in that context. I was able to share with the mum what I was reading and that the fact that she was breastfeeding would reduce her stress level in flying with her two children. We had a great talk about why breastfeeding is so good and she was able to ask my opinion on breastfeeding such an 'old' baby. I think the mum came away feeling confident after having talked to someone who thinks that she was actually doing a good thing in breastfeeding her toddler and I felt good too. So how about promoting breastfeeding in airplanes as reducing the stress of flight with toddlers and even giving them something to do. Karleen Gribble Australia _ ---_l\ / \ \_ ----- __/* o *********************************************** 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