Regarding confounding study suggesting that epidurals do not cause breastfeeding problems..... a while back, someone posted about two different hospitals she had worked in. Each did epidurals, and in one hospital she saw lots of sucking problems, and in the other, she did not. Each hospital used a different "cocktail" for their epidural, and she theorized that the choice of drugs might account for the variance. This is worth looking at further. Lisa Marasco IBCLC *********************************************** 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