I was part of Walter Rogan's Infant Feeding Study in the late 1970-early 1980's. We had aour breastmilk tested for PCP, PCB, Dioxin and something else. I have those saved somewhere in a baby book. I that that I remeber that my levels were not outside the averages ranges.
The problem I had with his study is that I know what type of advise Peds were giving moms then in Easten NC about infant feeding (cereal to sleep through the night, early juice and solids, etc) and I doubt if very many of the "bfing" infants in his study were exclusively BF. I would bet that the other LLL leader and mine were the only exclusively Bf infants in his study.The bfing rate in WIC was 11% in 1990 in my county and less then that in the outlying counties.
The other problem I have about his study is that the mothers and bbies were brought in once a month or every two months and had to give a dietary recall. How many times we ate fish each week, etc. I can't remember what I had for lunch today, so my recall was pretty suspicious.
Barbara Whitehead, IBCLC
Eastern NC

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