Pamela, I agree with you. To suggest that breastfeeding is only beneficial to the babies in poor countries or poor children in a rich country is a great disservice to babies who don't make the cut and makes a more developed country seem arrogant in their belief that breastfeeding is not all that important. Who decides which babies are worthy? And the poor in the developed country don't need breastmilk because they have a system that will provide free formula? (Our WIC agency here in the U.S.) In 1997 my own ob-gyn told me (upon hearing I was still nursing my 18 month old) that "really, breastfeeding past 4-6 months has no nutritional value...and we don't live in a developing country so we have plenty of other foods to be giving our children..." I wish we could take the dollar/political issue out of it and just state the across the board "well into the second year and beyond" guideline. Cheryl *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html