I have searched the archives and not found alot of infomation about breastfeeding with Hepatitis C Virus. As far as I am imformed a mother with only HCV can breastfeed, as long as the Anti-HCV-Antibodies are not too high. Important to know is if the mother has HIV, then in the western world breastfeeeding would be contraindicated. Am I correct in saying this? I have been asked by a paedtrician who has a relative having an elective caesarian tomorrow in Italy, who is HVC positive. I don't have more infomation, but would like to give accurate infomation myself. Thanks in advance, from warm Switzerland. Kerri Frischknecht RN. RM. IBCLC. *********************************************** 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