I have a mom who lost her son to BF failure a year ago. Mom was passionate about BF and gave no ABM, no bottles, no supplimentation of any sort. Unfortunately, she didn't have the milk to sustain baby. She consulted LLL and got the necessary information, but did not see that the baby was starving. Baby was hospitilized for two days before dying at 16 days. She became unexpectedly pg three months later and is going to deliver #2 soon. (due May 12 with preterm contractions). First child died May 31. I have been going lightly on BF in class (I teach childbirth classes) , hitting the topic pretty hard when she was absent last week. I think I may dismiss the non-BF clients early this week and give a BF lecture to those who wish to hear one. My dilemma is ..........I know she is planning to feed ABM and I understand her reasoning, but I would love her to put this one to breast with very close supervision. She feels as if she is such a failure and harbors enormous guilt over the death of her last child. This could be such a healing. Am I way out of line? I don't know whether to even mention this subject. She is very, very fragile as you can imagine. help tina Ohio, USA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html