I enjoyed reading Chris's comments about the JAMA article on breastfeeding. This article was accompanied by a patient education handout called feeding your newborn. It is on-line at http://www.ama-assn.org/consumer.htm. I ventured out of my quiet hole to send a comment on-line to let them know that this was not a useful handout for my patients. Most of my patients are healthy with no apparent reason not to breastfeed. If a patient does have HIV, Hep B,Smoke etc. or take medication, that I do research with *you* to find out what would be best for a particular mother instead of making a blanket statement that she can't give her baby any breastmilk. I let them know I would share the website with you. I am brief b/c I am off to work this morning.Check out the handout. Denise Punger MD Family Doc in Florida ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *********************************************** 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