>  I have a humorous twist in defiance to the advertising ploy using Peter
>Rabbit being bottle fed.  Two summers ago when I was nursing my 20 month
>old daughter,  we found some baby bunnies in our back yard.  They had been
>abandoned by their mother and looked like they were starving.  We tried
>giving them some grass but they seemed to weak to eat it.  I then came up
>with the bright idea of expressing some of my milk for them.  We gave it to
>them with an eye dropper.  They sucked it right down.  I have to admit, I
>was quite proud.
>They grew and were released into our backyard.

This is really interesting. I was under the impression that baby rabbits
would not survive on human milk (or cow's milk or formula), because they
are naturally lactose-intolerant. I think it was Maureen Minchin who said
this - in reference to the picture of Peter Rabbit being bottle-fed formula
on the can. Human milk is even higher in lactose than cow's milk, although
formula is made to be equivalent to human milk in concentration of lactose,
I think. Anyone else know anything about the make-up of rabbit's milk? (I
wouldn't ask in Australia - rabbits are vermin. Except for pet ones in the
city, the only good rabbit is a dead one!)

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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia.   mailto:[log in to unmask]
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