Hello All! I tried setting myself back to digest and it looks like AOL has fixed the problem!! Boy am I glad! Individual mail is a pain, for me anyway! I look forward to getting back in the swing of things here on Lactnet! I do have a question for y'all, though. I have a WIC mom who smokes (I know what you're thinking, but I'd rather have her smoking than doing the drugs she was doing before she found out she was Pregnant! As soon as she found out she was pregnant, she lost ALL cravings, desires and addictions to the drugs!) Anyway, we were discussing the effects of nicotine on the baby before and after birth. We know that adults go through withdrawl when they quit smoking, but how about the babies? This Mom plans to BF, and knows that some amount of nicotine will go into the milk, and it is her theory that this will help the baby to not go through withdrawl. She also wants to BF to protect the baby from the effcts of smoking (respitory illnesses, etc. ). She will not smoke around the baby to help reduce 2nd hand smoke problems. So, anyway, I have to kind of agree with he rhtoery about babie and withdrawl from nicotine, how 'bout you? I'd be interested in any research that there might be out there on this. TIA and glad to be back! Janet