Dee Kassing writes:
" One of the local children's hospitals here is even  warning mothers who have had C-section babies to be very watchful with the  babies.  The hospital is telling these mothers that their babies have an  increased risk in the first 8 years of developing asthma because the excess  fluid they were born with does not all completely leave the lungs after a  C-section, even when the babies have spent time in NICU on oxygen after the  birth. "

Michel Odent recently published a paper showing this exact correlation. I believe it was in a the APPPAH journal. The statistics were quite compelling, as I recall. Sometimes, i wonder if the skewed stats we see on breastfeeding have to do with the fact that so mnay bf babies (even those few exclusively bf) have had medicalized birth. For example, if ceserean birth increases the risk of asthma, how can we achieve any understanding of how artificial-feeding may increase the risk of asthma, w/o considering this as a confouding factor? And, how many other similar situations may we be unaware of. in which medicalized birth has literally skewed tha data over time?
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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