Sample of one -- I had a rubella shot on the delivery table, within minutes of giving birth to child #2 who was 3-4 weeks premature by dates. I had also had one on the delivery table with child #1 who was two weeks overdue by dates. When I got pregnant with child #3, I was *still* showing no antibodies to rubella. I also have never had either mumps or the mumps vaccine, but I did nurse from my mother when *she* had the mumps (I was 4 months old, she was 35). When she complained to her pediatrician that it was excruciatingly painful to nurse when she had the mumps, he told her it would hurt a lot more if she *didn't* nurse when she had the mumps and to grit her teeth and keep on breastfeeding -- which she did! :) Kathy Dettwyler _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com *********************************************** 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