Rachel you are exactly right with your comments "My thoughts are with those tens of thousands of people who were told to evacuate, but not provided with transportation to do so. That some of them are behaving in ways unworthy of a civilized society is no more appalling than the way that society has behaved toward them." Someone said about winter coming. Fortunately, cold weather is not until november or later. the heat is bad and will worsen disease. The nicu babies are often w/o their moms. so many women in n.o. just normally don't have reliabel transportation and so it is not at all unusual and in fact the norm for babies to be w/o their moms in nicus. these poor moms and seeing their babies go far away and not sure they will survive. hear they are hand ventilating many patients. the nurses that stayed behind, and doctors, are their for days and what provisions for any of them? i can't begin to realize the ripple effect (tidal wave effect) this will have on everything. i heard yesterday they ordered 3000 body bags for my parish. can't confirm this. many more will die i fear. The person that posted who worked directly with relactation after one hurricane please try to contact someone in baton rouge La health dept or fema or someone - did any nat'l orgs work with you - and send your post showing your personal and prof. exp. wtih the process. so maybe they will begin to utilize relact. Laurie Wheeler, IBCLC, MN, RN New Orleans Louisiana, s.e. USA *********************************************** 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