Hello everyone, I have been learning a lot from you all, and now hope you can help me. There is a woman in my La Leche League group who is pregnant and worried about how her fibrocystic breasts will affect her ability to nurse. She has two older children (they are 9 and 11 I think), and she didn't nurse them very long, because various problems (infections, soreness, etc.) came up, and her phycicians told her she couldn't nurse. Sigh. She is now quite determined to nurse this baby, but wants me to provide her with as much information on her problem and its effects on lactation as possible. I have given her the section from the Breastfeeding Answer Book that deals with fibrocystic disease, but she would like any other knowledge she can find. I guess she wants proof that she will be able to nurse just fine, and more info on the idea that nursing will actually improve her condition. Thanks for any research or anecdotal evidence you may have. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sue Ann Kendall, mother of two small boys, editor, La Leche League Leader, Prairienet Publications Committee Head, E. Central Ill. Breastfeeding Promotion Task Force Chair, 1995-6 [log in to unmask] http://www.prairienet.org/~sak http://www.prairienet.org/community/health/laleche/homepage.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------