>if one in twenty babies cannot tolerate their mother's milk, doesn't it seem
>odd that we don't know anything about it in our community (never seen this
>mentioned anywhere, lawrence, riordan and auerbach, etc.) and that the human
>race has SURVIVED? come on now.

Especially when one considers that our minimum "reloading time"
following an infant death, is nearly a year.  It makes absolutely no
evolutionary sense to put 9 months of cumbersome pregnancy into
producing a single offspring with a 5 percent chance of withering and
dying in the first month or two purely because it couldn't tolerate
its food.  If breastfeeding were that shaky, we'd have litters.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY

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