My hospital-affiliated daycare has now "politely" asked me not to breastfeed my just-turned-two-year-old son in his new daycare classroom, following my attempts to settle him down the other day after a stressful transition to his new room (and an unexpected sighting of mom, who was there to do an orientation.) The reason the director is giving is that they have noticed "that children who have been weaned often have a "setback" when they see their peers nursing so we try to keep it from being a distraction in the classroom, where we want the focus to lean a bit towards "school" rather than home." I am understandably upset about this. It is not even as much an issue for me (I am returning to clinical duties next week and will almost never be at daycare to pick him up or drop him off) but I am appalled at the attitude. I searched the archives, remembering a similar case, but it wasn't as relevant as I had thought. If anyone has any literature to support that this should not be an issue (yes, I know the burden should be on them to support why it is an issue), I'd appreciate their posting a reference to it. (BTW, Nancy, congrats on your son's victory! Excellent project!) Shannon Tierney McElearney, MD University of Virginia *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html