Ruth, I like your philosophy of no food restrictions for mothers unless there is some nasty problem. Just another thought - do you think that the different flavours that breastfed babies experience because of their mother's varied diet has an influence on breastfed infants accepting a wider variety of foods then do formula fed infants who have no taste variations, ever... how boring, poor mites! Denise interesting to hear that it's warming up, up there; because it's cooling down, down here and was just perfect weather today. (Queensland, Australia)