I read that article last Friday and was very pleased to see the attention being paid to this important issue- and it was a good sized intro with photo on the front page and was another 2/3 page more!  However, I was so dismayed by the paragraph that compares bm to a magic elixir.  That just jumped out at me!  This is the Times, can't they just stick with facts, why do journalists need to reinforce the Formula Rep Mantra that bm is the "Gold Standard" vs. it being simply the normal way human infants eat!  It just got under my skin!!
   
  "Doctors firmly believe that breast milk is something of a magic elixir 
for babies, sharply reducing the rate of infection, and quite possibly 
reducing the risk of allergies, obesity, and chronic disease later in life."
   
  and that word possibly.  Possibly reduce risk, etc????  What is up with that?
  VBACs practically don't exist anymore because of ONE research article with a high uterine rupture rate from a few years back.  How many studies are there that demonstrate clearly reduced allergies, obesity, chrinic disease etc in bf children? 5, 10, 15, 20?  and the NYT still prints "possibly reducing the risk..." in 2006!!!
   
  can you tell that got under my skin?
   
  Mary Herrington, RN
  Labor & Delivery
  St. Luke's CMC
  The Woodlands, TX
   

 		
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