I recently was invited to speak with a group of family practice residents for a two hour talk on breastfeeding, focusing on issues relevant to their practice. They were a very keen bunch, acknowledging no education on the subject in medical school etc. When I talked about telephone counselling and some of the potential legal implications, one of the residents mentioned that three infants had been admitted to our local children's hospital this summer with dehydration and the cause was identified as maternal dehydration. Unfortunately I have absolutely no details to share with you. Only that there are no breastfeeding experts at the childrens hospital and I am a little skeptical. It has been a hot summer and the mothers may well have been dehydrated, but I wonder if this was the cause or secondary to the infant dehydration, I wonder about birth history i.e. excessive blood loss and breastfeeding management which we know to be a major concern in all of our hospitals. I could not find anything in Lawrence or R & A that address specifically this relationship. Any comments from the experts would be appreciated. Susan Moxley IBCLC [log in to unmask]