I reached my 3-posts-per-day quotum sooner than I thougt yesterday, so here's my last answer to Jaye, with some delay: Dear Jaye, I think we're dealing with misunderstandings here. I thought we were talking otherwise healthy kids and moms - no I see you're talking premies. I thought we're talking long term fulltime pumping - now I see you're talking waiting till baby is grown and better capable of feeding at breast. I work with mainly healthy term newborns and older babies and moms who kind of choose to pump and bottlefeed for convenience sake. Or because trying to get baby drinking properly is to much of a hassle. Or who think they've been told that pumping is a normal part of breastfeeding or who honestly think to have learned that breast*milk*feeding equals breastfeeding for 100%. I do see a horrifying rise in those moms in my corner! Warmly, Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands *********************************************** 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