>>Please remember that I said amblyopia--which  is one type of eye
>>problem, not all--*predominantly* occurs in bottle-fed  babies.

>Do you have any references for this? Since my son's diagnosis, 
>I've read a >lot on amblyopia and haven't come across any 
>information on infant-feeding >method having any bearing on it.

I did some searching on PubMed for this because of a personal interest:
twin nephews (now adults), both with strabismus.  Both of them have at
least one child who has the same.  

There is no research that I could find to support a connection between
amblyopia and infant feeding method.  I did a variety of searches, with
search terms like amblyopia, strabismus, infant, epidemiology, etiology
and feeding.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

The major causes of amblyopia are cited as strabismus, refractive error,
and congenital cataracts with strabismus as the most common.  But the
causes of strabismus (the only one of these amenable to the effect of
varying position) are cited as being congenital muscle, innervation or
CNS problems.  

Judith

Judith Hayman, RN, IBCLC, BSc, BScN
Public Health Nurse & Lactation Consultant

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