>-- does anyone remember the story of Lacey? If someone knows more about her >than I do (and I don't know much), perhaps you could share that on Lactnet. Here's my story, as best I know it. I looked for her site and couldn't find it, after I'd e-mailed the following to Heather. I also love telling Lacey's story to worried mothers of 18 month olds who merely dabble in solids... Lois Arnold, if you're on lactnet currently, let us know if this is all reasonably correct. *** I always wonder, when someone asks about milk for one age baby being appropriate for another, why there's no label on cartons of milk telling us how old the calves were whose mothers gave the milk. With only the most minor variations from one age to another, milk is milk. Do you know the story of Lacey? She was a highly allergic little girl in Kansas whose mother became unable to provide milk. She was fed banked milk - and banked milk only, not even vitamins (because she was allergic to their formulation) - until she was three... four... five... I saw a picture of her at age 8, still exclusively breastmilk fed. She looked stocky - "overbuilt" - because of all the growth hormone she was receiving. And apparently she had some jaw problems because all she did was drink, no chewing. She went through a patch somewhere in there where even frozen milk wasn't tolerated well; had to be fresh. Milk was flown in daily from here, there, and everywhere. Nine... ten... It was hoped that the hormones of puberty, along with immunosuppressants, would allow her to eat solids. And sure enough. She had her first school lunch at something like 12. I read about her when she was in high school. She won awards in 4-H, was in the jazz band, and was working toward a couple college credits. She was also learning to fly a plane - the result of all that time spent watching her milk shipments arrive. She still consumed sizeable amounts of human milk. The last I knew she was in college, still somewhat dependent on human milk, though she likes to keep that part quiet. And she still has health problems related to her extreme food sensitivities. But she's lovely - shining, long hair, sparkly eyes, indistinguishable from any other bright young woman. And she went to college with a body and brain that were built entirely on breastmilk for the first decade, and largely on breastmilk thereafter. HMBANA could give you more of her story. I believe there's a website that talks specifically about her. -- Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY www.wiessinger.baka.com *********************************************** 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