I'm working with a mother who is currently 6 weeks pregnant. She has a 2 yr old who breastfeeds 4/5x a day. She miscarried at 12 weeks earlier this year. Both her MD and midwife are urging her to wean, due to the possibility of uterine contractions causing another miscarriage. She is a healthy woman, with no history of uterine abnormalities. I have shared with her the section on breastfeeding and pregnancy in the Breastfeeding Answer Book, but she would like a specific reference. I have searched the archives, to no avail. Does anyone have a specific reference that refutes this notion that, in an otherwise normal pregnancy, breastfeeding could cause contractions such that a miscarriage might occur? Thanks in advance. Liz Thompson Grapentine, LLLL ([log in to unmask]) Turning Pages: Writing from Home--http://members.aol.com/cgrapentin/tp1.html ************************************************************ "I don't have the time every day to put on makeup. I need that time to clean my rifle." -- Henriette Mantel