On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Karleen Gribble wrote:

> I've been wracking my brains for the last few days trying to think of a
> quote that I know someone on Lactnet has posted before, someone from WHO
> or unicef said it I think?? Something about how breastfeeding provides a
> child born into a poor family with a buffer against their poverty?? Can
> anyone help me with this??

Breastfeeding is a natural "safety net" against the worst effects of
poverty. If the child survives the first month of life (the most dangerous
period of childhood) then for the next four months or so, exclusive
breastfeeding goes a long way toward canceling out the health difference
between being born into poverty and being born into affluence .... It is
almost as if breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those first
few months in order to give the child a fairer start in life and
compensate for the injustice of the world into which it was born.

--James P. Grant, former Executive Director, UNICEF

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