While initailly Merilee's suggestion to have breastfeeding as a question on everyone's helath intake forms seems like a great idea, I see a potential problem. While many may not know whether or not they were breastfed, few of those that do will know how exclusive that breastfeeding was. I worry that any statistics obtained will be skewed because "any breastfeeding" will be lumped with "exclusivly breastfed" when comparing with "not breastfed". Any results may show little or no difference and it will be assumed by too many that therefore breastfeeding didn't make any difference! It's hard enough sometimes to get valid definitions in current studies. How much more difficult in such a retrospective collection of data. This is not to discourage gathering information in this way, just a warning that results may not be as reliable as we would like. Winnie *********************************************** 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(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html