Thank you all for your suggestions regarding treatment of thrush with diflucan. Very appreciated by many around here. I have a confession (or two) to make. I, me , myself, moi, prescribed combined oral contraceptive to a breasfeeding woman. Baby is more than 3 months old, thriving. Mom has plenty of milk. When I offered alternatives, she refuses barrier methods because "men do not like condoms" (husband was there, and willing ...) and because she did not want to put her fingers "there" to put a female barrier. Sh would not take progesterone-only pill because of bleeding (with medical reasons too: she has malaria, and could lose hemoglobin on a regular basis). Husband, who is north american and progressive, is baffled ! By, the way, she also would not do natural methods, feeling them unsafe. In her culture, men have to be satisfied, and the indsutries have been very successful in promoting the Pill. So, I prescribed it, wraning about possible effects on the milk supply, and following carefully. So far, so good. I feel OK with the decision, but feel sad that technology has so much reduced the options for some women... Another confesion: I must not let my lactnet mailbox exceed 75 messages: more thant that, and I go to my husband asking for a new baby ... Now, that woukd be "catastrophic" financially, profesionnally, and everything... How does one engineer and "accident" ? (Spenking of which, my 5-year-old daughter came to me last week, asking me to swallow a seed to have another little girl. As I was starting to explain, she told me "but you have to swallow a seed to have a baby grow in your stomach". Her Daddy is a gardener, you see...) Louise Denhez, M.D., M.P.H Chargee d'enseignement clinique Departement de medecine sociale et preventive