Way back in August I went on vacation, then returned to a crashed computer. It wasn't fixed until October, and its "downtime" coincided with a significant downturn in business and having to adjust to an empty nest. So September started out odd, then turned odd for *everyone*. And now it's odd to be back in the breastfeeding world again (though without my bookmarks or address book... or children, for that matter). And a quick question I was just asked: assuming that a baby doesn't finish an SNS feeding of human milk, is there any need to clean the *tubing* before another use a few hours later? This is a thriving several-month old exclusively human-milk-at-breast-fed baby. I've certainly never heard of a problem, but I can see where the residual tubing milk could be a different issue from the larger volume of milk in the reservoir. I think the mother is as interested in the theoretical answer as the practical one. Me too. Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY www.wiessinger.baka.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