> Deal with the real concerns, not with >primitive notions of sinfulness and virtue, purity and pollution. > >Just my contaminated 30 ml worth! >Rachel Myr >Kristiansand, Norway So agree...and it is pertinent to us in the UK, as twice in the last week I have heard of mothers being told to pump and dump for **24 hours** after drinking...this when I was smug and happy that 'our' HPs would never tell a mother this. One of the mothers I heard it from had been to her own 21st birthday party, and the week before had collected 24 hours worth of EBM for her baby to have afterwards....only she found it wasn't enough, and he had cried, and had been given formula. She herself was worried her milk supply had gone down (I don't think it had) drastically, because the baby was now bf constantly. Her health visitor had told her the 24 hour 'rule' and when I actually gave her the facts about it, she was in tears of rage and fustration - not my aim, at all, as I don't like mothers to feel worse after a call : ( This 24 hour thing is like some sort of a punishment for daring to enjoy yourself. Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK *********************************************** 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