In a message dated 01/05/2004 12:08:48 PM EST, [log in to unmask]
writes:

<< >I wish that we would say "risks of infant formula" rather than "risks of
not
 >breastfeeding."  I am very opinionated about this and I am not sure I will
 >ever understand the need to say in the same breath "risks" and
"breastfeeding."
 >It may be the politically correct approach and yet I think its
sophistication
 >maybe its own undoing.
  >>

It's more wordy, but something like the risk is "feeding your baby anything
other than your milk,"  or "risks of anything other than your milk/mother's
milk/human milk"... At times ( during a phone call where I realized the mother of
a 6 month old wasn't talking about how she was weaning her baby from the
breast to formula, but weaning from breastfeeding to simply solids) I actually
reviewed the WHO Four: 1: breastfeeding . 2: breastmilk feeding of mom's own
milk,  3: breastmilk feeding of another mother's milk ( via bank) and a distant
4th: . appropriate and safely prepared and delivered formula. The first three
are all related and a huge dividing line exists between first three and the last
one, and that is where the risks come in.
Judy LeVan Fram, Brooklyn, USA

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