Your pediatrician is absolutely off the mark. She is taking her own
experience, perhaps, and generalizing it to others. Typical response of
so many pediatricians and other physicians, even if they did breastfeed.
If there were one study, like the one on nucleotides (see my post to
Lactnet earlier), they all believe it. But if there are dozens of
studies that show that breastfed babies have less otitis media "I don't
believe it".
Check the url with my list of studies on "risks of formula feeding". It
should be in there (the one on daycare). You are right about the study
on daycare, by the way.
http://www.erols.com/cindyrn/drjack0.htm
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC