HI All! Another book that I personally love is The Complete Book of Breastfeeding by Eiger and Olds. I spent a lot of time with this book and found it very helpful and easy to read and understand. About relactation, I think that Lisa has brought up a good point about what we tell moms about relactation. Knowing from personal experience how hard it is to keep up an 8-12 times a day pumping schedule, it is no wonder that many moms throw in the towel. How discouraging it must be to work so hard and see so little change. I am working with a mom right now who is trying to get her supply in. This poor gal fell off a ladder (three rungs up from the bottom) at 7 1/2 mo preg (2 weeks before Christmas Eve) and had three compound fractures in her right leg! She underwent 3 surgeries (2 of which were really messed up, and all done with a spinal or epidural) awake. The 4 th surgery, the babies (twins) started having probs, they did an emergency c-sec., knocked her out and finished the surgery. Three days later, after insisting like crazy and threatening to sue, the Drs finally let her see her babies.(the babies were fine, they just wanted her to rest. :/ ) Up until this point she was not given a pump to use, Drs said that since her milk wasn't in yet, there was no need. When her milk started to come in on day 4, they brought her a pump...twice a day. She survived like this for 5 days, then was sent home with NO pump and with the babies. She called me when the babies were about 4 weeks old. She had been hand expressing, and using the hospital pump when she would go in for appointments for her leg. Needless to say, her milk supply was a little low. :/ No one had helped her try to L-O the twins, tho she had tried. To make a long story short, she is now pumping all over the place, in hopes of getting something of a milk supply going. Our WIC LC will be doing a home visit to see about L-O help. This mom is very realistic about her situation, and whether or not she will be able to get a supply, and if she does, how much of a supply she will get. She is very upset about the lack of BF help and support she had at the hospital, but is so eager to BF, that she will do anything it takes to try. I wonder how long she will try. The last time I talked to her she said "But I get so little!". I told her that anything she got was great and to take what she could get and give it to the babies. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for her! At least I didn't tell her that it was a sure thing that she could get her supply back! Given her situation, quite frankly, I'll be surprised if she gets a supply at all! Anyway, I'm going into ramble mode now. Must be time for bed! Take care all! Jay