Hi, Denise! Lotsa luck on this very interesting topic! I had pp hemorrhage with my 2nd, Hct down to 29, received no IV fluids or blood, milk came in *faster* than with 1st baby (I think because I was allowed home earlier with 2nd). I am curious - seems to me that you would have an awful lot of variables to control for: # pregnancy, breastfeeding experience, support, epidural and other labor analgesics/anesthetics, jaundice (and treatment for it), etc. - and those are just the ones we know about. I LOVE research, don't you? I mean the good stuff, not the boring me-too stuff. There is so much still to be learned about lactation in general that I go wild when I hear of another study on influence of health care provider on infant feeding method or characteristics of infant feeding among ____ (fill in the blank). ARGH. I went bananas when I heard of a local bigshot who got a quarter of a million dollars to study infant feeding practices among a certain population segment. Off the soapbox and drink some nice chamomille tea, Judy. Judy Knopf in Beer Sheva, Israel