Hi, My name is Kris Rogers and I am one of the new subscribers who learned about Lactnet just last week at the conference on 4/7/95. I am an RN and I have been a LLL leader since 1974 and am now an AAPL for Illinois. I am also IBCLC since 1991 and have a private practice as well as a pump depot. My three children are: Mark (age 21), Lori (age 19) and David (age 15) who has been teaching me about using the internet and is learning how to share all over again. :) About the Low Gaining Baby: I also question whether the mother accurately assessed the output. I once had a mom who claimed her baby had an adequate number of wet diapers, but once the child began receiving supplements, the mom stated that the diapers had never been all that wet. I learned to tell moms that the diapers should be as wet as when 2 - 4 tablespoons of water are poured in a dry diaper. Also if the baby is sucking incorrectly, (hollowed cheeks) he may only be getting what little foremilk is available at the beginning and very little calorie rich hindmilk. Maybe the stools were just small stains in the diaper but were each counted as one bowel movement. Sometimes it helps the baby's tongue to position the baby sitting up facing the breast with his chin flexed to his chest to help his tongue come down and forward more. Any other ideas? About the issue of age: Karen Pryor in her first book said that sometimes older mothers have problems because it is a lot more difficult to fit a baby's schedule (frequency days, etc.) into the lifestyle of older moms (especially if there are also older children who must be driven everywhere). Also at a conference on cancer and breastfeeding, it was stated that in Hiroshima there was an increased incidence of breast cancer following the bomb in women under 35, but no increase at all in women over 35 apparently due to the involution of glandular tissue after that age. I thought a pregnancy would "reactivate" the tissue, but maybe not always enough? Kris