Dear Jack, I thought it was a rhetorical q. About 10 years ago I worked with a mom who almost bled out from a nicked artery. Rec'd 26 pints of blood. We talked about her plans to BF and the issues with receiving so much blood (late 1980's), she really wanted to BF because delivery experience had ended up so horrific. So she pumped in ICU and eventually BF baby. She said if she got HIV and the baby got it, then so be it. I thought she was courageous, I don't know if I could have made that sort of decision, but it was her baby. Today her baby would be taken away from her! So sad. P.S. They did fine. Sincerely, Pat in SNJ *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html