I just wanted to pass along MY personal favorite advantage of breastfeeding that I always share with moms: Breastfeeding ALLOWS you to be possessive of your new baby!!! That is, when the M-I-L is holding the crying baby and bouncing her up & down to get her to stop crying (when you KNOW she wants to be rocked side to side) you just say, "Oh, I guess she needs to be fed" and you get to take the baby back!!!! I got no arguments from my M-I-L on that one!!! Kathy in NJ IBCLC RN C (Maternal-infant), APN C (Family Nurse Practitioner) PhD student hoping to study labor and lactation issues (my 11 year old taught me how to make signatures!!! She is so smart with the computer--taught me PowerPoint last year when I had a presentation to do in class -- must have been 'cause she was breastfed for 22+ months, hmmmm???) *********************************************** 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