Hello to Lactnet,
I am a LLLL who posted a few times a few years ago then went nomail when
Lactnet seemed to threaten to take over much of my time.  Now, I guess
I've gotten better at time management!  Want to say I have learned lots
from Lactnet and use the archives often.  Thanks thanks!
The heat/cold discussion has been very interesting and I think the
comment about slaughtering sacred cows refers to disagreeing with the
information in the BAB.  I would think the editors of BAB will review
the recommendations on using heat to treat engorgement.
I have a comment on binding the breasts.  At nineteen, in 1969, I gave
my first baby up for adoption.  I think that's why breastfeeding and
(what I later came to learn was) attachment parenting went straight to
my heart nineteen years later when I gave birth the second time.  That's
another story.  Notwithstanding losing my baby, my experience with not
breastfeeding left an indelible impression on me.  I became hugely
engorged and sprayed milk across the room for, it seemed, days even
though I had received a shot of something. What was most comforting was
to lie on my stomach with my arms bent and forearms pressing on my
breasts.  So, I second Linda Inglis' comment that (something like)
binding "felt just fine."
By the way, this happened in England and I was taken care of by some
wonderful midwives (they were called), especially one from South Africa
who told me that some mothers who gave up babies nursed them first.  A
kind and seemingly offhand remark, it was a powerful thing to say to
me--the first and almost the only time anyone talked to me like I was
really a mother.  It was very healing even though I wasn't able to begin
to recognize it until I did nurse a baby.

Diane, in Vermont
I graduated in high school in 1966, too, but it definitely does NOT seem
like yesterday.