>Genuine question: are the circumstances where a mother in the US is truly *not allowed* to breastfeed? In the UK, too, there has been at least one high profile case where a mother was told she coud not bf her baby (b/c of HIV) and she had to escape/try to escape social services who were attempting to take her baby into care.< Heather, if this is the Camden case you are thinking of, these details are incorrect. (It might not be this case, of course, and if not, I would be interested in knowing more.) In the Camden Case the only order the court made was for hiv testing on the little girl -- what they might have done about breastfeeding or antiretrovirals if the test had been negative or positive remains speculative. The parents fled in order to avoid having their daughter tested. In the USA Kathleen Tyson's son Felix was made a ward of court in the State of Oregon and he was allowed to live with his parents as long as he was given antiretroviral medication and his mother did not breastfeed (the state sent social workers to check for evidence of bottlefeeding). There have been several *brilliant* write ups of this in Mothering Magazine, in 1999 and late last year. At least some of the first lot are on their website (I know they have revamped it a few months ago, I think you have to search in archived articles -- try 'hiv'). Magda Sachs Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK *********************************************** 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