> If however you are asking about expressing the colostrum before birth - I > dont think thats encouraged, but some of the nurses on the list may have a > better idea. I would say, as a personal thought, this is a bad idea. They used to say to rub your breast before birth to prepare them for the baby and this is NOT recommended any more. Messing with your breast while pregnant makes your body release oxytocin. This is what makes you have contractions and so theoretically can cause preterm labor. However, as soon as the baby is born a woman that plans on using breast milk needs to tell her body that she wants to use it. So, expressing or pumping is necessary. Otherwise your body will think you don't need any and won't produce much. Perhaps someone else said this but I'm in finals (the above could be on my final so I'm actually studying right now!) and wading through a few hundred emails! April, Wife to Kenny, Mom to Marissa, 3 years old, PT3 PM10 http://marissakayroles.homestead.com/Marissahome.html IN, USA Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line