I posted the anecdote, and I 100% agree with you...but she thinks she has
the bonding all taken care of.  After all, she can visit the baby twice a
day in daycare to give him a bottle - isn't that all it takes <TIC>??

But I digress....

Jennifer B. Davis, ICCE-CD, CD(DONA)
Exec. Director
Triangle Birth Network, Inc.
www.trianglebirthnetwork.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Shea" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: IQ study


> Someone responded with an anecdote about a Mom of a 7wk old beginning
weaning
> but who changes her mind and plans to pump some milk for the 9mths.
specified
> in the study.
> This is all well and good but my response to her would be; how do you know
> that the benefit (in terms of IQ advantage) comes from the *breast milk*
only
> and not from the  (physiologically complex) process of brfdng?
> If we reduce this *process* to simply a liquid placed in a can, then we
make
> the job of duplicating it a whole lot easier for the formula
> companies....(whoa-WHO do I sound like? ;0)
> grrrrrr.......
> Lynn Shea Rn,Bsn,Ibclc
> Franklin,Massachusetts
>
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