Hi all. I'm the nurse/manager at the OB/GYN clinic at Harvard University Health Services. We see an amazingly diverse ethnic population here with many problems and concerns. One lovely patient we have is a full blood Penobscot Indian from Maine. She is 32 weeks pregnant. Baby seems fine from US done. Her tribe lives on an island in the Penobscot River about 7 miles from the closest paper mill. There are a total of 4 paper mills up river from their island that discharge 4 million gallons of waste from the plants on a daily basis. Her concern is dioxin levels in the water. They have notices from the EPA to eat only 2 servings of fish per month from the river. She has heard that 50% of any dioxin in her system is excreted through breast milk and all of the mothers on the reservation have been encouraged to use ABM. It is very difficult to get information from the government or the paper mills concerning this. We will be testing her dioxin level at her next appt. If anyone who has any information regarding this it would be appreciated. This also sounds like a great study for someone to do for a paper! Thanks to Marge Wilson for hooking me up to Lactnet....You are all great sources of information. Sheryl McGinnis RNC