Zoe and the slimming pill company should have known better. Despite the general lack of public support for breastfeeding here, there are nevertheless many fierce breastfeeding advocates. Anyone who has seriously breastfed would know you must be super careful with what you take while you are at it. Come on, people abstain from spicy food, even the tiniest drop of alcohol and food and fruit of all sorts just to be sure that nothing harmful goes to the baby. And you really don't need an old, or young, wife to tell you that chemical substances are even more harmful than all those. On top of that, a rather strange explanation about how the pills were taken by a breastfeeding mother was offered. Apparently, she stopped breastfeeding for the 2-3 weeks she was taking the pills and the baby was fed stored expressed milk. Now, what was she doing about her breast milk during those 2-3 weeks. Since she is still breastfeeding now, she couldn't have done nothing. She must have been feverish